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Will You Please Be Edited, Please?: Gordon Lish and the Development of Literary Minimalism
- CEA Critic
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 78, Number 1, March 2016
- pp. 1-23
- 10.1353/cea.2016.0005
- Article
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“[Gordon] Lish’s editing of “Fat” works to cut the story down by paring any detail or event that could be thought excessive. [Raymond] Carver’s sentences ramble less in Lish’s edited version, and the story begins to develop a staccato rhythm that would predominate in the prose style of What We Talk About.”