Having It Both Ways

Maile Meloy looks to Raymond Carver, Annie Proulx and Joyce Carol Oates in her second collection of short stories.

March 28th, 2010 · No Comments

In his New York Times review of Justin Taylor’s Everything Here is the Best Thing Ever, Todd Pruzan explains how Raymond Carver “advanced a literary genre with ‘What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.’  The movement wasn’t dirty realism or minimalism, but ‘vaguely titled fiction’: stories concealing their intensity and…

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