Releases | ||
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↙Books | 18 | |
↙Novels | 1 (fragment) | |
↙Articles | 32 | |
↙Stories | 72 | |
↙Collections | 3 | |
↙Poems | 306 | |
↙Plays | 1 | |
↙Scripts | 1 | |
↙Journals | 3 | |
↙Books edited | 3 | |
↙Short stories - manuscript versions | 17 | |
References and footnotes |
The bibliography of Raymond Carver consists of 72 short stories, 306 poems, a novel fragment, a one-act play, a screenplay co-written with Tess Gallagher, and 32 pieces of non-fiction (essays, a meditation, introductions, and book reviews). In 2009 the 17 stories collected in What We Talk About When We Talk About Love were published in their manuscript form, prior to Gordon Lish's extensive editing, under the title Beginners.[1]
Contents |
Raymond Carver's complete published works are collected in the following volumes:
Two texts which are not included in any of the collections above were published separately:
Title | Publisher | Contents | Notes |
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Near Klamath | Sacramento: English Club of Sacramento State College (1968) |
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Winter Insomnia | Santa Cruz: Kayak (1970) | ||
At Night the Salmon Move | Santa Barbara: Capra (1976) | ||
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? | New York: McGraw-Hill (1976) | 22 short stories | |
Furious Seasons and Other Stories | Santa Barbara: Capra (1977) | 8 short stories | |
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love | New York: Knopf (1981) | 17 short stories | |
Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories | Santa Barbara: Capra (1983); New York: Vintage (1984); New York: Vintage Contemporaries (1989) |
2 essays, 50 poems, 7 short stories |
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Cathedral | New York: Knopf (1983); London: Collins (1984) |
12 short stories | |
Dostoevsky | Santa Barbara: Capra (1985) | A Screenplay | Written with Tess Gallagher |
Where Water Comes Together with Other Water | New York: Random House (1985) | 80 poems | |
Ultramarine | New York: Random House (1986) | 84 poems | |
Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories |
New York: Atlantic Monthly (1988); Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library (1988) |
37 short stories | |
A New Path to the Waterfall | New York: Atlantic Monthly (1989) | 73 poems | |
No Heroics, Please: Uncollected Writings |
London: Collins Harvill (1991); New York: Vintage Contemporaries (1992) |
stories, 19 poems and book reviews |
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Short Cuts: Selected Stories |
New York: Vintage (1993) | 9 short stories, 1 poem | Released to accompany Short Cuts film (1993) |
All of Us: The Collected Poems |
New York: Vintage (2000) | 306 poems | |
Call If You Need Me: The Uncollected Fiction and Other Prose |
New York: Vintage (2001) | 10 stories, 1 novel fragment, 32 pieces of nonfiction |
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Collected Stories | New York: Library of America (2009) | 90 stories, 4 essays, 1 novel fragment |
Title | Publisher | Contents | Notes |
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The Stories of Raymond Carver | London: Picador (1985) | 51 stories | Complete contents of Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, and Cathedral |
In a Marine Light: Selected Poems |
London: Collins Harvill, (1987) | ||
Elephant and Other Stories | London: Collins Harvill (1988) | 7 short stories | Includes the 7 new stories collected in Where I'm Calling From |
Beginners | London: Chatto Bodley Head & Cape (2009) | 17 stories | Manuscript version of stories included in What We Talk About When We Talk About Love |
Title | Publisher | Contents |
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Put Yourself in My Shoes | Santa Barbara: Capra (1974) | 1 short story |
The Pheasant | Worcester, MA: Metacom (1982) | 1 short story |
Two Poems | Salisbury, MD: Scarab (1982) | 2 poems |
If It Please You | Northridge, CA: Lord John (1984) | 1 short story |
My Father's Life | Derry, NH: Babcock & Koontz (1986) | Biographical essay |
Two Poems | Concord, NH: Ewert (1986) | 2 poems |
Those Days: Early Writings by Raymond Carver |
Elmwood, CT: Raven (1987) | 11 poems, 1 short story |
Title | Originally published in | Collected in: | Notes |
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Fat | Harper's Bazaar, September 1971 | Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (1976); Where I'm Calling From (1988); Collected Stories (2009) |
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Neighbors | Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (1976); Where I'm Calling From (1988); Collected Stories (2009) |
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The Idea | Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (1976); Collected Stories (2009) |
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They're Not Your Husband | Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (1976); Where I'm Calling From (1988); Collected Stories (2009) |
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Are You a Doctor? | Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (1976); Collected Stories (2009) |
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The Father | Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (1976); Collected Stories (2009) |
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Nobody Said Anything | Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (1976); Where I'm Calling From (1988); Collected Stories (2009) |
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Sixty Acres | Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (1976); Collected Stories (2009) |
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What's in Alaska? | Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (1976); Where I'm Calling From (1988); Collected Stories (2009) |
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Night School | Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (1976); Collected Stories (2009) |
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Collectors | Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (1976); Where I'm Calling From (1988); Collected Stories (2009) |
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What Do You Do in San Francisco? | Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (1976); Where I'm Calling From (1988); Collected Stories (2009) |
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The Student's Wife | Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (1976); Where I'm Calling From (1988); Collected Stories (2009) |
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Put Yourself in My Shoes | Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (1976); Where I'm Calling From (1988); Collected Stories (2009) |
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Jerry and Molly and Sam | Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (1976); Collected Stories (2009) |
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Why, Honey? | Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (1976); Where I'm Calling From (1988); Collected Stories (2009) |
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The Ducks | Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (1976); Collected Stories (2009) |
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How About This? | Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (1976); Collected Stories (2009) |
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Bicycles, Muscles, Cigarets | Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (1976); Where I'm Calling From (1988); Collected Stories (2009) |
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What Is It? | Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (1976); Where I'm Calling From (1988); Collected Stories (2009) |
Titled "Are These Actual Miles?" in Where I'm Calling From (1988) |
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Signals | Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (1976); Collected Stories (2009) |
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Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? | Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (1976); Collected Stories (2009) |
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Pastoral | Western Humanities Review, Winter 1963 | Furious Seasons and Other Stories (1977); Collected Stories (2009) |
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Furious Seasons | Selection, Winter 1960-1961 | Furious Seasons and Other Stories (1977); Collected Stories (2009) |
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Why Don't You Dance? | What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981); Where I'm Calling From (1988); Collected Stories (2009) |
Manuscript version appears in Beginners (2009) and Collected Stories (2009). |
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Viewfinder | What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981); Collected Stories (2009) |
Manuscript version appears in Beginners (2009) and Collected Stories (2009). |
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Mr. Coffee and Mr. Fixit | What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981); Collected Stories (2009) |
Manuscript version appears in Beginners (2009) and Collected Stories (2009). |
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Gazebo | What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981); Where I'm Calling From (1988); Collected Stories (2009) |
Manuscript version appears in Beginners (2009) and Collected Stories (2009). |
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I Could See the Smallest Things | What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981); Collected Stories (2009) |
Manuscript version appears in Beginners (2009) and Collected Stories (2009). |
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Sacks | What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981); Collected Stories (2009) |
Manuscript version appears in Beginners (2009) and Collected Stories (2009). |
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The Bath | What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981); Collected Stories (2009) |
Manuscript version appears in Beginners (2009) and Collected Stories (2009). Republished as "A Small, Good Thing" in rewritten and expanded form in Cathedral. |
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Tell the Women We're Going | What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981); Collected Stories (2009) |
Manuscript version appears in Beginners (2009) and Collected Stories (2009). |
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After the Denim | What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981); Collected Stories (2009) |
Manuscript version appears in Beginners (2009) and Collected Stories (2009). |
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So Much Water So Close to Home | What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981); Where I'm Calling From (1988); Collected Stories (2009) |
Manuscript version appears in Beginners (2009) and Collected Stories (2009). |
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The Third Thing That Killed My Father | What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981); Where I'm Calling From (1988); Collected Stories (2009) |
Manuscript version appears in Beginners (2009) and Collected Stories (2009). |
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A Serious Talk | What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981); Where I'm Calling From (1988); Collected Stories (2009) |
Manuscript version appears in Beginners (2009) and Collected Stories (2009). |
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The Calm | What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981); Collected Stories (2009) |
Manuscript version appears in Beginners (2009) and Collected Stories (2009). |
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Popular Mechanics | What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981); Where I'm Calling From (1988); Collected Stories (2009) |
Titled "Little Things" in Where I'm Calling From (1988); manuscript version titled "Mine" appears in Beginners (2009) and Collected Stories (2009). |
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Everything Stuck to Him | Chariton Review, Fall 1975 (as "Distance") |
Furious Seasons and Other Stories (1977); Fires (1983); What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981); Where I'm Calling From (1988); Collected Stories (2009) |
Titled "Distance" in Where I'm Calling From (1988) Manuscript version titled "Distance" appears in Beginners (2009) and Collected Stories (2009). |
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love | What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981); Where I'm Calling From (1988); Collected Stories (2009) |
Manuscript version appears in Beginners (2009) and Collected Stories (2009). |
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One More Thing | What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981); Where I'm Calling From (1988); Collected Stories (2009) |
Manuscript version appears in Beginners (2009) and Collected Stories (2009). |
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The Lie | Fires (1983); Collected Stories (2009) |
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The Cabin | Fires (1983); Collected Stories (2009) |
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Harry's Death | Fires (1983); Collected Stories (2009) |
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The Pheasant | Fires (1983); Collected Stories (2009) |
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Feathers | Cathedral (1983); Collected Stories (2009) |
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Chef's House | Cathedral (1983); Collected Stories (2009) |
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Preservation | Cathedral (1983); Collected Stories (2009) |
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The Compartment | Cathedral (1983); Collected Stories (2009) |
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A Small, Good Thing | Cathedral (1983); Collected Stories (2009) |
Originally published as "The Bath" in What We Talk About When We Talk About Love in a shorter form. |
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Vitamins | Cathedral (1983); Collected Stories (2009) |
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Careful | Cathedral (1983); Collected Stories (2009) |
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Where I'm Calling From | Cathedral (1983); Collected Stories (2009) |
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The Train | Cathedral (1983); Collected Stories (2009) |
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Fever | Cathedral (1983); Collected Stories (2009) |
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The Bridle | Cathedral (1983); Collected Stories (2009) |
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Cathedral | Cathedral (1983); Collected Stories (2009) |
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Boxes | Where I'm Calling From (1988); Elephant and Other Stories (1988); Collected Stories (2009) |
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Whoever Was Using This Bed | Where I'm Calling From (1988); Elephant and Other Stories (1988); Collected Stories (2009) |
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Intimacy | Where I'm Calling From (1988); Elephant and Other Stories (1988); Collected Stories (2009) |
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Menudo | Where I'm Calling From (1988); Elephant and Other Stories (1988); Collected Stories (2009) |
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Elephant | Where I'm Calling From (1988); Elephant and Other Stories (1988); Collected Stories (2009) |
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Blackbird Pie | Where I'm Calling From (1988); Elephant and Other Stories (1988); Collected Stories (2009) |
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Errand | Where I'm Calling From (1988); Elephant and Other Stories (1988); Collected Stories (2009) |
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The Hair | Call If You Need Me (2000); Collected Stories (2009) |
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The Aficionados | Call If You Need Me (2000); Collected Stories (2009) |
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Poseidon and Company | Call If You Need Me (2000); Collected Stories (2009) |
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Bright Red Apples | Call If You Need Me (2000); Collected Stories (2009) |
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Kindling | Call If You Need Me (2000); Collected Stories (2009) |
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What Would You Like to See? | Call If You Need Me (2000); Collected Stories (2009) |
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Dreams | Call If You Need Me (2000); Collected Stories (2009) |
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Vandals | Call If You Need Me (2000); Collected Stories (2009) |
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Call If You Need Me | Call If You Need Me (2000); Collected Stories (2009) |
Carver's 306 poems are collected in All Of Us (1996) after previously appearing in the collections: Near Klamath (1968), Winter Insomnia (1970), At Night The Salmon Move (1976), Fires (1983), Where Water Comes Together With Other Water (1985), This Water (1985), Ultramarine (1986), Early For The Dance (1986), Those Days: Early Writings By Raymond Carver: Eleven Poems And A Story (1987), In A Marine Light: Selected Poems (1987), A New Path To The Waterfall (1989), and No Heroics, Please (1991).
Notable poems include "Photograph of My Father in His Twenty-Second Year", which grew out of the essay "My Father's Life", and "Gravy" which was published in the New Yorker in August 1988 following Carver's death. The poems "Late Fragment" and "Gravy" are both inscribed on his tombstone.
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Title | Originally published in | Collected in: | Notes |
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My Father's Life | Esquire, September 1984 | Fires (1983); Collected Stories (2009) |
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On Writing | The New York Times Book Review, 15 February 1981 (as "A Storyteller's Shoptalk") |
Fires (1983); Collected Stories (2009) |
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Fires | Antaeus, Autumn 1982 | Fires (1983); Collected Stories (2009) |
Appears in anthology In Praise of What Persists (1983) |
On Where I'm Calling From | Where I'm Calling From (1988) (as "A Special Message for the First Edition") |
No Heroics, Please (1991); Call If You Need Me (2001); Collected Stories (2009) |
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John Gardner: The Writer as Teacher | Georgia Review, Summer 1983 (as "John Gardner: Writer and Teacher") |
Call If You Need Me (2001) | Reprinted as forward to Gardner's On Becoming a Novelist (1983) |
Friendship | Granta, Autumn 1988 | Call If You Need Me (2001) | |
Meditation on a Line from Saint Teresa | Commencement, 15 May 1988 untitled statement |
Call If You Need Me (2001) |
Title | Published in: | Collected in: |
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On "Neighbors" | Cutting Edges: Young American Fiction for the '70s, ed. Jack Hicks (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973) |
Call If You Need Me |
On "Drinking While Driving" | New Voices in American Poetry, ed. David Allan Evans (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Winthrop Publishers, 1973) |
Call If You Need Me |
On Rewriting | Afterward to Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories, (Santa Barbara, California: Capra Press, 1983) |
Call If You Need Me |
On the Dosotevsky Screenplay | Introduction to Dostoevsky: A Screenplay (Santa Barbara, California: Capra Press, 1985) |
Call If You Need Me |
On "Bobber" and Other Poems | The Generation of 2000: Contemporary American Poets ed. William Heyen (Princeton, New Jersey: Ontario Review Press, 1984) |
Call If You Need Me |
On "For Tess" | Literary Cavalcade 39, no. 7 (Scholastic, Inc. New York, April 1987) |
Call If You Need Me |
On "Errand" | The Best American Short Stories 1988 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988) |
Call If You Need Me |
On Where I'm Calling From | Foreword to Where I'm Calling From (New York: Atlantic Monthly, 1988); |
Call If You Need Me |
Title | Introduction to: | Collected in: |
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Steering by the Stars | Syracuse Poems and Stories 1980 Syracuse University, 1980 |
Call If You Need Me |
All My Relations | Call If You Need Me | |
The Unknown Chekhov | Call If You Need Me | |
Fiction of Occurrence and Consequence (with Tom Jenks) |
Call If You Need Me | |
On Contemporary Fiction | Call If You Need Me | |
On Longer Stories | Call If You Need Me |
Title | Books reviewed | Published in: | Collected in: |
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Big Fish, Mythical Fish | My Moby Dick by William Humphrey | Chicago Tribune Book World, 29 October 1978 |
Call If You Need Me |
Barthelme's Inhuman Comedies | Great Days by Donald Barthelme | Chicago Tribune Book World, 28 January 1978 |
Call If You Need Me |
Rousing Tales | Call If You Need Me | ||
Bluebeard Mornings, Storm Warnings | Call If You Need Me | ||
A Gifted Novelist at the Top of His Game | Call If You Need Me | ||
Fiction That Throws Light on Blackness | Call If You Need Me | ||
Brautigan Serves Werewolf Berries and Cat Cantaloupe | Call If You Need Me | ||
McGuane Goes After Big Game | Call If You Need Me | ||
Richard Ford's Stark Vision of Loss, Healing | Call If You Need Me | ||
A Retired Acrobat Falls under the Spell of a Teenage Girl | Call If You Need Me | ||
"Fame Is No Good, Take It from Me" | Call If You Need Me | ||
Coming of Age, Going to Pieces | Call If You Need Me |
Carver's first publication was in the Chico State student newspaper, The Wildcat, on October 31, 1958, where he sent a letter to the editor entitled "Where Is Intellect?" which complained about the apathy of students on campus. In 1962 Carver wrote an absurdist one-act play entitled Carnations which was staged on his college's campus on May 11 and received mostly negative feedback. The play was published in 1992 by Engdahl Typography.
A fragment of Carver's unfinished novel The Augustine Notebooks was published in Iowa Review (Summer 1979), and later collected in Call If You Need Me (2000) and Collected Stories (2009); Carver had accepted an advance on an unwritten novel from McGraw-Hill and planned to write a novel he imagined as "an African Queen sort of thing" set in German East Africa after World War I.[2] Carver later admitted he stopped working on the novel after two weeks, and it appears that nothing of it exists beyond the published fragment.
In 1982 Carver was approached by director Michael Cimino with the idea of reworking a screenplay on the life of Fyodor Dostoevsky. Carver asked Tess Gallagher to assist him in the project. the movie was never produced but the screenplay, entitled Dostoevsky, was published by Capra (Santa Barbara, 1985).
Carver served as the founding editor of the Chico State literary magazine Selection in 1960 and the UC Santa Cruz journal Quarry (later Quarry West) in 1971. He also edited the Spring 1963 issue of Toyon at Humboldt State. Carver also selected the contents for the book Syracuse Poems and Stories 1980 (Syracuse, N.Y.: Department of English, Syracuse University, 1980). He also selected, along with Shannon Ravenel, the stories included in The Best American Short Stories 1986 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986) and edited American Short Story Masterpieces (New York: Delacorte Press, 1987) with Tom Jenks.