Library of America

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Featuring ‘Raymond Carver: Collected Stories’

Saving literature, and eventually himself

In the pantheon of modern fiction, how important is Raymond Carver? Fellow writer Robert Pope once dubbed him the “salvation of American literature.” Charles McGrath, former editor of the New Yorker and the New York Times Book Review, called him the “bellwether for a whole generation.”


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