September 4, 1998

Estate of Raymond Carver Said to Have Suppressed Research on the Writer

The New York Times Magazine

last month laid out for all to see something that writers in Raymond Carver's circle had gossiped about for years: His editor, Gordon Lish, wielded a hatchet. The article's author, D.T. Max, a contributing editor of The Paris Review, argued that Mr. Lish, as much as Carver, was responsible for the spare, minimalist tone of many of the author's mid-career short stories.

Mr.

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