No discussion of Carver is complete without mentioning his relationship with editor Gordon Lish. >Carver had been up all night reviewing Lish’s severe editoria

No discussion of Carver is complete without mentioning his relationship with editor Gordon Lish. >Carver had been up all night reviewing Lish’s severe editorial cuts––two stories had been slashed by nearly seventy per cent, many by almost half; many descriptions and digressions were gone; endings had been truncated or rewritten––and he was unnerved to the point of desperation. https://web.archive.org/web/20220617140639/http://www.newyorker.com:80/magazine/2007/12/24/rough-crossings https://web.archive.org/web/20220617140639/http://www.newyor...