Status Updates From Death and So Forth: Stories

not related but not not à propos: remember when those unedited Carver short stories were released beside the Lish edits? did anyone other than stephen king actually think that those editions did anything other than conclusively prove that Lish is a genius (and not, say, that he hacked and chopped Carver’s “genius”)? anyway enjoying the Lish

we should be so lucky as to receive new Gordon Lish in the year 2021

RTC

"Uncle Charlie, however, and Aunt Dora, they must have both of them known what war was. Me too, am I right? It was fun. War was fun."

"So I says to the window-shade man, “Look, believe me, I am here on your premises in good faith and am ready and able to do business with you with a clear conscience as a fully endowed citizen in complete possession of his wits as well as his teleology.”