Julietta’s Reviews > Beginners > Status Update

This is the unedited version of "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love." The first 2 stories are pretty similar, but "Where Is Everyone?" is way more detailed, and has way more background on character motivation, than the renamed "Mr. Coffee and Mr. Fixit." I've read that the editor cut more than 50% from Carver's original manuscript, which helped to earn the author's rep as a minimalist.