I simply can't get enough of Carver's sparse, minimalistic prose. He made me love the short story format that I had dismissed for so long.I have read everything he's written and now I'm looking for writers in a similar vein. Who should I read?
Please post an except for my pleasure and joy sweetheart.
sorry about your taste bro
>>24694933Lotta sorry ass dimwitted fucks wandering around this board lately
>>24694933In my younger days I read a lot of contemporary American short stories and the authors I remember liking most were Mary Gaitskill, Lorrie Moore and (unironically) Tao Lin. Closest to Carver, though, might be John Cheever. I recently read a collection of his called A Vision of the World and hugely enjoyed it. Also check out Lish's brutal edits of Carver, very funny: https://web.archive.org/web/20080716110313/https://www.newyorker.com/online/2007/12/24/071224on_onlineonly_carver?currentPage=all
>>24694962>Cheever Poor man’s Updike
>>24694933Carver owes everything to Lish. Lish put out about 40 volumes of The Quarterly. You can get them for like $2 a piece used on amazon or ebay. They're full of writing he selected. It's what you want.
I was tasked with reading his short story dubbed the moniker of “Cathedral” for my English class. I didn’t know that is was just a short story so I ended up reading the entire collection. I enjoyed it and some of his stories really resonated with me. I ended reading his other books too.I got to the story dubbed the moniker of “Fever” right after My wife left me, took our kid and got with a man she had assured me was “just a friend”. Interesting timing. The short story helped me confront some feelings and thoughts I was having difficulty understanding
back in the day i was the ultimate lish shill but really i was only trying to make people read lish's own stuff whereas no carver fan would realistically sit through something as insane. having said that, if you want that sharpness, covertness and meaningful repetition the lineage to carver is still hemingway->salinger (much better)->carver and everyone else in that lish workshop school, from amy hempbel to chuck palahniuk. >>24694984i like cheever a lot better desu. updike feels icky and sentimental.
>>24694933Amy Hempel's collected stories. More generally, you want writers in the Lishian school. He edited and taught a lot of late 20th c short fiction writers.
>>24694933>can't get enoughYes he's great.>similar veinEveryone started trying to copy him in the 90s; there are dozens of poor imitations. But what he's doing is a lot harder than it looks.I've only found one good short story writer (in English) who is anywhere near him and that's Lucia Berlin.Try e.g. "Unmanageable" from <pic attached>. Very Carveresque.
William Trevor has that similar vein of sadness and small lives. But he doesn’t have that distinctly American feel
>>24696484>>24694933 (OP)>A Manual for Cleaning WomenNever thought I'd see Berlin recommended here. OP, this anon is right, Berlin's excellent
>>24694943>Lotta sorry ass dimwitted fucks wandering around this board latelylately?
