He didn’t need a lot of words to go deep. At a graduate writers’ workshop I attended in Missoula, Montana, in the 1970s, our resident fiction instructor held up a copy of Raymond Carver’s first book ...

In appearing to give you nothing, Jim Jarmusch‘s almost perversely downplayed trio of short stories “Father Mother Sister Brother” winds up giving you almost everything if you can tap into its cool ...

The new Will Ferrell movie Everything Must Go is based on a typically sparse and despairing story by Raymond Carver called Why Don’t You Dance? Since he specialized in knowing gloom, what we talk ...

The "Moral Complexity in Leadership" series of cases and teaching notes help business instructors harness the power of fiction to prepare students for the moral and ethical dilemmas they will face ...

Poetic beginnings — first lines, or first poems in collections — do a lot of work in setting the tone and the reader’s expectations. By Elisa Gabbert His struggles to complete a book caught the eye of ...

A collection of letters from renowned American short story writer and poet Raymond Carver has been donated to the library at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Valued at $23,650, the donation ...

Carol Sklenicka's biography examines the famous writer's personal demons, his remarkable transformation, and investigates whether Carver's... Introduction We can never know what to want, because, ...

ALBANY — Thus far, for Albany Public Library’s Reading Music series, songwriter Michael Eck has penned a clutch of murder ballads based on actual local cases and a brace of tunes based on John ...