Lish rang to talk about revisions, but Carver was not home, so he just left a message: “I’ve had my way with it.”

Notes on ‘The Edit’

Much has been said of the extent of the edits that Gordon Lish made on Raymond Carver’s early stories, so I thought I’d just say a little.

This story was first published on Twitter on 27 Feb 2014.

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