![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For the Collected Stories, published in 2009, Carver’s widow, Tess Gallagher, printed some of them in both edited and unedited versions. When Lish donated his papers to the Lilly Library at Indiana University Bloomington, they indeed showed that he had drastically cut, and often rewritten, some of Carver’s best-loved stories. His editorial relationship with Carver ceased after three books. His collaborations have not always ended amicably. He would cross out everything so there’d be like three lines left, and he would be right.” In an interview with the Paris Review in 2004, Hannah said: “Gordon Lish was a genius editor. As fiction editor of Esquire from 1969 to 1977, then as an editor at Knopf and of the Quarterly until 1995, Lish worked closely with many of the most daring writers of the past 50 years, including Raymond Carver, Don DeLillo, Barry Hannah and Joy Williams. Not since Maxwell Perkins has an editor been so famous – or notorious – as a sculptor of other people’s prose. I t’s the custom for editors to keep a low profile and to underplay any changes they may make to an author’s manuscript. ![]()
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