Bibliography: Raymond Carver

RAYMOND CARVER:
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SOURCES

Compiled and Prepared by:

Maya Venters, St. Jerome’s University, 2020

Robert Miltner, Kent State University at Stark, 2019

Steven McDermott, Storyglossia, 2009

RAYMOND CARVER

---.  All of Us: The Collected Poems. Ed. William L. Stull. London: Collins Harvill, 1997.

---.  A New Path to the Waterfall. New York: Atlantic Monthly, 1989.

---.  At Night the Salmon Move. Santa Barbara: Capra, 1976.

---.  Beginners. UK: Jonathan Cape, 2009

---.  Call If You Need Me: The Uncollected Fiction and Other Prose. Ed. William L. Stull.

---.  Carnations [play]. Vineburg, CA: Engdahl Typography, 1990.

---.  Cathedral. NewYork: Knopf, 1983.

---.  Collected Stories. New York: Library of America, 2009.

---.  With Tess Gallagher. Dostoevsky: A Screenplay. Santa Barbara: Capra, 1985.

---.  Elephant. Fairfax, CA: Jungle Garden Press, 1988.

---.  Elephant and Other Stories. London: Collins Harvill, 1988.

---.  Fires. Santa Barbara: Capra, 1983; New York: Vintage, 1984.

---.  Furious Seasons and Other Stories. Santa Barbara: Capra, 1977.

---.  If It Please You. Northridge, CA: Lord John, 1984.

---.  In a Marine Light: Selected Poems. London: Collins Harvill, 1987.

---.  Intimacy. Concord, NH: Ewert, 1986.Fdouch

---.  My Father’s Life. Derry, NH: Babcock & Koontz, 1986.

---.  Near Klamath. Sacramento: English Club of Sacramento State College, 1968.

---.  New Path to the Waterfall. New York: Atlantic Monthly, 1989.

---.  No Heroics, Please: Uncollected Writings. London: Collins Harvill, 1991.

---.  Painter and the Fish. Concord, NH: Ewert, 1988.

---.  Put Yourself in My Shoes. Santa Barbara: Capra, 1974.

---.  The Pheasant. Worcester, MA: Metacom, 1982.

---.  The Stories of Raymond Carver. London: Picador, 1985.

---.  This Water. Concord, NH: Ewert, 1985.

---.  Those Days: Early Writings by Raymond Carver. Elmwood, CT: Raven, 1987.

---.  Three Stories. Vineburg, CA: Engdahl Typography, 1990.

---.  Two Poems. Salisbury, MD: Scarab, 1982.

---.  Two Poems. Concord, NH: Ewert, 1986.

---.  What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. New York: Knopf, 1981.

---.  Where I’m Calling From: New and Selected Stories. Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1988; New York: Atlantic Monthly, 1988.

---.  Where Water Comes Together with Other Water. New York: Random House, 1985.

---.  Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976.

---.  Winter Insomnia. Santa Cruz: Kayak, 1970.

---.  Ultramarine. New York: Random House, 1986.

SECONDARY SOURCES

Monographs and Essay Collections

Amir, Ayala. The Visual Poetics of Raymond Carver. Abingdon, Oxford, UK: Routledge, 2011.

Bethea, Arthur F. Technique and Sensibility in the Fiction and Poetry of Raymond Carver. New York: Routledge, 2001.

Bloom, Harold, ed. Raymond Carver: Comprehensive Research and Study Guide. Broomall, PA: Chelsea House Publishers, 2002.

Campbell, Ewing. Raymond Carver: A Study of the Short Fiction. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1985.

Fachard, Vasilki. Journal of the Short Story in English: Special Issue on Raymond Carver (Spring 2006).

Fachard, Vasilki and Robert Miltner, eds. Not Far From Here: The Paris Symposium on Raymond Carver. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars, 2014.

Grant, Paul Benedict and Katherine Ashley, eds. Carver Across the Curriculum: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching the Fiction and Poetry of Raymond Carver. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011.

Groenland, Tim. The Art of Editing: Raymond Carver and David Foster Wallace. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

Lainsbury, G. P. The Carver Chronotope: Inside the Life-World of Raymond Carver’s Fiction. Abingdon, Oxford, UK: Routledge, 2004.

Kleppe, Sandra Lee. The Poetry of Raymond Carver: Against the Current. Surry, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2014.

Kleppe, Sandra Lee and Robert Miltner, eds. New Paths to Raymond Carver: Critical Essays on His Life, Fiction, and Poetry. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2008.

Meyer, Adam. Raymond Carver. New York: Twayne, 1995.

Nesset, Kirk. The Stories of Raymond Caver: A Critical Study. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1995.

Nicholls, James. A Babel of Bottles: Drink, Drinkers & Drinking Places in Literature. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000.

Plath, James, Ed. Raymond Carver: Critical Insights. Ipswich, MA: Salem, 2013.

Pountney, Jonathan. The Afterlife of Raymond Carver: Residual Craftsmanship in the Neoliberal Era. Edinburg, UK. University of Edinburg Press, 2020.

Rubenstein, Susanne. Raymond Carver in the Classroom: ‘A Small, Good Thing’: (Ncte High School Literature Series).Urbana, Ill: National Council of Teachers of English, 2005.

Runyon, Randolph Paul. Reading Raymond Carver. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1992.

Saltzman, Arthur M. Understanding Raymond Carver. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1988.

Toolan, Michael J. Narrative Progression in the Short Story: A Corpus Stylistic Approach. Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2009.

Zhou, Jingqiong. Raymond Carver’s Short Fiction in the History of Black Humor. New York: Peter Lang, 2006.

Journal and Magazine Articles

Aarons, Victoria. “Variance of Imagination.” The Literary Review 27.1 (Fall 1983): 147-152.

Abbott, Keith. “The Gift of Anonymity: Social Class and Property in ‘Why Don’t You Dance?’” The Raymond Carver Review 3 (Spring 2011): 17-36.

Abrahams, Eileen. “The Glass Half Empty: The Poetics of Raymond Carver’s ‘Vitamins.’” The Raymond Carver Review 1 (Winter 2007): 1-15.

Addington, Wells. “Will You Please Be Edited, Please? Gordon Lish and the Development of Literary Minimalism.” CEA Critic: An Official Journal of the College English Association 78.1 (March 2016): 1-23.

Allsop, Christopher D. “Turn Off the Lights as You Leave: Altman and His Short Cuts with Carver.” Journal of Film and Video 65.1-2 (Spring 2013): 62-74.

Al-Mansoob, Huda. “Analyzing the Unreliable Narrator: Repetition and Subjectivity in Raymond Carver’s ‘What Do You Do in San Francisco?’” Theory and Practice in Language Studies 1.7 (2011): 802-810.

Alton, John. “What We Talk about When We Talk about Literature: An Raymond Carver.” Chicago Review 36.2 (Autumn 1988): 4-21.

Amir, Ayala. “‘I Don’t Do Motion Shots’: Photography, Movement, and Change in Raymond Carver’s Stories.” The Raymond Carver Review 1 (Winter 2007): 33-52.

---. “Sunt Lacrimae Rerum: Ekphrasis and Empathy in Three Encounters between a Text and a Picture.” Word & Image: A Journal of Verbal/Visual Enquiry 25.3 (July 2009): 232-242.

Applefield, David. “Fiction & America: Raymond Carver.” Frank: An International Journal or Contemporary Writing & Art 8-9 (Winter 1987): 6-15.

Arai, Keiko. “Who Controls the Narrative? A Stylistic Comparison of Different Versions of Raymond Carver’s ‘So Much Water So Close to Home.’” Style 41.3 (Fall 2007): 319-341.

Arias-Misson, Alain. “Absent Talker.” Partisan Review 49.4 (1982): 625-628.

Armstrong, John. “Gothic Matters of De-Composition: The Pastoral Dead in Contemporary American Fiction.” Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture 6 (2016): 127-143.

Atlas, James. “Less Is Less.” The Atlantic 247.6 (June 1981): 96-98.

Azcona, M. Mar. “Making Sense of a Multi-Protagonist Film: Audience Response Research and Robert

Altman’s Short Cuts (1993).” Miscelanea: A Journal of English and American Studies 32 (2005): 11-22. Banks, Russell. “Raymond Carver: Our Stephen Crane.” Atlantic Monthly (August 1991): 99-103.

---. “A Dyspeptic View of Nineties Fiction.” Atlantic Monthly (May 1992): 120-27.

Barnette, Jane. “How to do things with birds: The Janus effect in theatrical adaptation.” Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance 9.2 (2016): 131-145.

Barth, John. “A Few Words About Minimalism.” Weber Studies 4.2 (Fall 1987): 5-14.

Beattie, Ann. “On Visitors: When the Bachelor Girl and the Red Death Come Calling, Are They Mirrors for Our Eccentricities?” American Scholar 83.3 (Summer 2014) 51-59.

Bedell, Jack B., and Norman German. “Echoes of Slammed Doors: Resonant Closure in Raymond Carver’s Fiction.” Short Story 8.2 (Fall 2000): 87-93.

Benson, Josef. “Masculinity as Homosocial Enactment in Three Stories by Raymond Carver.” The Raymond Carver Review 2 (Spring 2009): 81-95.- - -. “Ralph Whiteman as White Construction in ‘Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?’” The Raymond Carver Review 4 (Summer 2014): 7-21.

Berland, Lauren. “America, ‘Fat,’ the Fetus.” Boundary 2 (1994): 157-165.

Bethea, Arthur F. “Carver’s ‘Collectors.’” Explicator 61.1 (Fall 2002): 54-55.

---. “Carver’s ‘Mr. Coffee and Mr. Fixit.’” Explicator 67.2 (Winter 2009): 146-152.

---. “Carver’s ‘Rhodes.’” Explicator 63.2 (Winter 2005): 114-117.

---. “Carver’s ‘Wes Hardin: From a Photograph” and ‘A Small, Good Thing.’” Explicator 57.3 (Spring 1999): 176-79.

---. “Carver’s ‘Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?’” Explicator 56.3 (Spring 1998): 132-35.

---. “Now This Is Affirmation of Life: Raymond Carver’s Posthumously Published Stories.” Journal of the Short Story in English 46 (Spring 2006): 89-106.

---. “‘Poseidon and Company’: Raymond Carver’s Nod to Homer.” Notes on Contemporary Literature 31.4 (September 2001): 6-8.

---. “Raymond Carver’s Inheritance from Ernest Hemingway’s Literary Technique.” Hemingway Review 26.2 (Spring 2007): 89-104.

---. “The Critical Farce about Farce (and Irony) in Raymond Carver’s Fiction.” Notes on Contemporary Literature 31.1 (January 2001): 7-10.

Bocquet, Sophie. “‘Le Vie Est Une Fête, on Dirait’ (Life Is a Party, So They Say...).” Raymond Carver Review 7 (Fall 2019/Spring 2020): 3.

Boddy, Kasia. “Companion-Souls of the Short Story: Anton Chekhov and Raymond Carver.” Scottish Slavonic Review 18 (Spring 1992): 105-13.

---. “Short Cuts and Long Shots: Raymond Carver’s Stories and Robert Altman’s Film.” Journal of American Studies 34.1 (April 2000): 1-22.

Bolton, Carol, et al. “‘So Much Water, So Close to Home’: A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Raymond Carver’s Short-story and its Creative Adaptation and Transformation by Australian Artists into Film and Song.” Australasian Journal of Psychotherapy. 35.2 (2018): 33-53.

Bosha, Francis J. “Raymond Carver’s ‘Cathedral.’ Thought Currents in English Literature 57 (1984): 149-151. Boxer, David, and Cassandra Phillips. “‘Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?’ Voyeurism, Dissociation, and the Art of Raymond Carver.” Iowa Review 10.3 (1980): 75-90.

Bramlett, Frank, and David Raabe. “Redefining Intimacy: Carver and Conversation.” Narrative 12.2 (May 2004): 178-194.

Brosch, Renate. “Adaptation for the Postcolonial Community: ‘Jindabyne’’s Contested Spaces.” Anglia: Zeitschrift für Englische Philologie 130.3 (2012): 364-377.

Brown, Arthur A. “Raymond Carver and Postmodern Humanism.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 31.2 (Winter 1990): 125-136.

Bruyere, Claire. “Sherwood Anderson and Raymond Carver: Poets of the Losers.” Winesburg Eagle: The Official Publication of the Sherwood Anderson Society 22:1 (Winter 1997): 3-6.

Bugeja, Michael J. “Tarnish and Silver: An Analysis of Carver’s ‘Cathedral.’” South Dakota Review 24.3 (Autumn 1986): 73-87.

Bullock, Chris J. “From Castle to Cathedral: The Architecture of Masculinity in Raymond Carver’s ‘Cathedral.’” Journal of Men’s Studies 2.4 (May 1994): 343-51.

Burgin, Richard. “Beyond Minimalism.” Review of Where I’m Calling From by Raymond Carver. Partisan Review 57 (1990): 160-63.

Caddy, David. “Raymond Carver: Self and Separateness.” Use of English 61.3 (Summer 2010): 224-232.

Campbell, Ewing. “Raymond Carver’s Therapeutics of Passion.” Journal of the Short Story in English 16 (Spring 1991): 9-18.

Carlin, Warren. “Just Talking: Raymond Carver’s Symposium.” Cross Currents 38.1 (Spring 1988): 87-92.

Cash, Peter. “Raymond Carver (1938-1988): An Approach to Teaching.” Use of English 59.2 (Spring 2008):109-125.

Champion, Laurie. “So Much Whisk(e)y So Far From Home: Misogyny, Violence, and Alcoholism in Raymond Carver’s ‘Where I’m Calling From.’” Studies in Short Fiction 36.3 (Summer 1999): 235-249.

---. “‘What’s to Say’: Silence in Raymond Carver’s ‘Feathers.’” Studies in Short Fiction 34.2 (Spring 1997): 193-201.

---. “What we talk about when we talk about love: Carver and Chekhov.” Journal of the Short Story in English/Les Cahiers de la Nouvelle 28 (1997): 24-36.

Clark, Billy. “Beginning with ‘One More Thing’: Pragmatics and Editorial Intervention in the Work of Raymond Carver.” Journal of Literary Semantics 41.2 (2012): 155-173.

---. “Stylistic Analysis and Relevance Theory.” Language and Literature: Journal of the Poetics and Linguistics Association 5.3 (1996): 163-78.

Clark, Miriam M. “After Epiphany: American Stories in the Postmodern Age.” Style 27 (1993): 387-94.

---. “Raymond Carver’s Monologic Imagination.” Modern Fiction Studies 37.2 (Summer 1991): 240-47.

Clark, Robert C. “Keeping the Reader in the House: American Minimalism, Literary Impressionism, and Raymond Carver’s ‘Cathedral.’” Journal of Modern Literature 36.1 (Fall 2012): 104-118.

Cochrane, Hamilton E. “Taking the Cure: Alcoholism and Recovery in the Fiction of Raymond Carver.” University of Dayton Review 20.1 (Summer 1989): 79-88.

Coles, Robert. “Teaching Raymond Carver.” The American Poetry Review 22.1 (January-February 1993): 23-25.

Colibaba, Stefan. “Raymond Carver’s Minimalism.” British and American Studies (1997) : 126-31.

Cornwell, Gareth. “Mediated Desire and American Disappointment in the Stories of Raymond Carver.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 46.4 (Summer 2005): 344-356.

Coulthard, A. R. “Daddy Dearest: Raymond Carver’s ‘Photograph of My Father in His Twenty-Second Year.’” Notes on Contemporary Literature 34.2 (March 2004): 2-5.

Cushing, Cameron. “The Negative Pastoral in Raymond Carver’s ‘The Compartment.’” The Raymond Carver Review 5/6 (Winter 2016 / Spring 2017): 58-67.

Dana, Robert. “Carver Country: An Ikonography of the Beloved.” The North American Review 277.2 (March-April 1992): 42-43.

---. “In the Labyrinth: Poetry as Prose; Prose as Poetry.” North American Review 275.3 (1990): 72-80.

Davidson, Rob. “Beyond ‘Errand’: Raymond Carver and the Art of Homage.” Raymond Carver Review 7 (Fall 2019/Spring 2020): 35-44.

Davis, Alan. “The Holiness of the Ordinary.” The Hudson Review 45.4 (1993): 653-658.

Decker, Christof. “Faces in the Mirror: Raymond Carver and the Intricacies of Looking.” Amerikastudien/American Studies 49.1 (2004): 35-49.

Deemer, Charles. “Short Cuts: The Los Angelesation of Raymond Carver.” Creative Screenwriting 4.3 (Fall 1997): 11-17.

Delanoë-Brun, Emmanuelle, and Marie le Grix de la Salle. “Altman lecteur de Carver: Le Contournement Ironique.” Q/W/E/R/T/Y : Arts, Littératures & Civilisations du Monde Anglophone 9 (October 1999): 133-47.

Del Pozzo, Silvia, and William L. Stull. “I’m Sort of Their Father.” Clockwatch Review: (a journal of the arts) 10.1-2 (1995): 17-18.

Demory, Pamela. “‘It’s about Seeing . . .:’ Representations of the Female Body in Robert Altman’s Short Cuts and Raymond Carver’s Stories.” Pacific Coast Philology, 34.1 (1999): 96-105.

Dobozy, Tamas. “Raymond Carver in the Viewfinder.” Canadian Review of American Studies/Revue Canadienne d’Etudes Américaines 41.3 (2011): 279-298.

Dobyns, Stephen. “Remembering Raymond Carver.” Erato 9-10 (Fall-Winter 1998).

Doherty, Paul C. “A Note on the Function of Language in ‘Cathedral.’” Religion and the Arts 2.3 (1998): 337-42.

Donahue, Peter J. “Alcoholism as Ideology in Raymond Carver’s ‘Careful’ and ‘Where I’m Calling From.’” Extrapolation 32.1 (Spring 1991): 54-63.

Downes, Margaret J. “Narrativity, Myth, and Metaphor: Louise Erdrich and Raymond Carver Talk about Love.” MELUS 21.2 (Summer 1996): 49-61.

Doxey, William. “Query: Raymond Carver’s ‘Cathedral.’” Notes on Contemporary Literature 27.2 (March 1997).

Dubus III, Andre. “Carver and Dubus, New York City, 1988.” Five Points: A Journal of Literature and Art 17.2 (2016): 27-35.

Duffy, Edward. “Word of God in Some Raymond Carver Stories.” Religion and the Arts 2.3 (1998): 311-36.

Dziedzic, Piotr. “The Blissful and the Real: The Mid-Fictions of Raymond Carver.” Literature and Linguistics/Literatur und Linguistik 1 (2002): 71-77.

Elie, Paul. “Has Fiction Lost its Faith?” New York Times Book Review (December 23, 2012): BR1.

Engel, Monroe. “Knowing More Than One Imagines: Imagining More Than One Knows.” Agni 31-32 (1990): 165-176.

Fabre, Claire. “Violence du banal: Une Anatomie du cliché dans les dernières nouvelles de Carver.” GRAAT : Publication des Groupes de Recherches Anglo-Américaines de l’Université François Rabelaisde Tours 16 (1997): 149-58.

---. “Why Don’t We Dance?: Sophie Bocquet’s Choreographic Interpretations of Raymond Carver Stories and Poems.” Raymond Carver Review 7 (Fall 2019/Spring 2020): 4-8.

Fachard, Vasiliki. “Introduction.” Journal of the Short Story in English 46 (2006): 19-29.

---.  “It Doesn’t Take a Tolstoy: Raymond Carver’s ‘Put Yourself in my Shoes.’” Journal of the Short Story in English 46 (Spring 2006): 43-62.

---.  “Regarding the Ear in Raymond Carver’s ‘Vitamins.’” Journal of the Short Story in English 37 (Autumn 2001): 97-122.

---.  “The Shuffled Letter in Raymond Carver’s ‘Collectors.’” Journal of the Short Story in English 42 (Spring 2004): 61-74.

---.  “What More Than Rita Can We Make of Carver’s Parts in ‘Fat’?” Journal of the Short Story in English 33 (Autumn 1999): 25-48.

Facknitz, Mark A. R. “Missing the Train: Raymond Carver’s Sequel to John Cheever’s ‘The Five-Forty-Eight.’” Studies in Short Fiction 22.3 (Summer 1985): 345-347.

---.  “One More Reason We Can’t Stop Tugging Over Raymond Carver’s Body.” Q/W/E/R/T/Y : Arts, Littératures & Civilisations du Monde Anglophone 9 (October 1999): 149-54.

---.  “Raymond Carver and the Menace of Minimalism.” CEA Critic 52.1-2 (Fall 1989-Winter 1990): 62-73.

---.  “‘The Calm,’ ‘A Small, Good Thing,’ and ‘Cathedral’: Raymond Carver and the Rediscovery of Human Worth.” Studies in Short Fiction 23.3 (Summer 1986): 287-296.

Flakus, Greg. “Artichokes, as Raymond Carver Might Have Written It.” Texas Review 31.1 (2010): 25-28.

Fletcher, Andrew. “Making the Most of Minimalism: Raymond Carver’s Short Stories.” Use of English 52.3 (Summer 2001): 252-61.

Foley, Michael. “Dirty Realist.” London Review of Books 7.8 (May 1985): 12.

Fontana, Ernest L. “Insomnia in Raymond Carver’s Fiction.” Studies in Short Fiction 26.4 (Fall 1989): 447- 51.

Ford, Richard. “Good Raymond.” New Yorker 74.30 (Oct 1998).

Forsberg, Niklas. “Carver, Cavell, and the Uncanniness of the Ordinary.” New Literary History: A Journal of Theory and Interpretation 49.1 (Winter 2018): 1-22.

Fuller, Molly. “Intentionality and Narrative Thrust in the Beginners Version of ‘Why Don’t You Dance?’” The Raymond Carver Review 4 (Summer 2014): 56-73.

Gallagher, Tess. “Not Translation, but Translatability: Carver to Altman/Story to Film (Responding to

Harold Schweizer’s ‘Phenomenology of Reading’).” Q/W/E/R/T/Y : Arts, Littératures & Civilisations du Monde Anglophone 9 (October 1999): 177-80.

---. “‘Yet Why Not Say What Happened?’: Raymond Carver’s Last Poems, A New Path to the Waterfall.” The American Poetry Review 18.3 (May-Jun 1989): 43-46.

Gearhart, Michael W. “Breaking the Ties That Bind: Inarticulation in the Fiction of Raymond Carver.” Studies in Short Fiction 26.4 (Fall 1989): 439-46.

Gentry, Marshall Bruce. “Women’s Voices in Stories by Raymond Carver.” CEA Critic: An Official Journal of the College English Association 56.1 (Fall 1993): 86-95.

German, Norman and Jack Bedell. “Physical and Social Laws in Ray Carver’s ‘Popular Mechanics.’” Critique 29.4 (Summer 1988): 257-60.

Giraldi, William. “Carver’s Dream.” Sewanee Review 117.4 (Fall 2009): 669-674.

Gómez Galisteo, Ma Carmen. “What Men and Women Do When They Talk about Love: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of ‘What We Talk about When We Talk about Love’ by Raymond Carver.” Journal of English Studies 9 (2011): 125-141.

Gomez-Vega, Ibis. “Urban Violence and Failed Myths in Raymond Carver’s ‘What We Talk About When We Talk About Love’” Short Story 12.2 (Fall 2004): 71-83.

Goodheart, Eugene. “The Fiction of Raymond Carver.” Boston Review 9.1 (Feb 1984): 25.

Gorra, Michael. “Laughter and Bloodshed.” Hudson Review 37.1 (Spring 1984): 151-164.

Gower, Nathan. “Why We Like the Story Anyway: Teaching the Development of Unsympathetic Protagonists.” Atrium: A Journal of Academic Community Voices (Fall 2010): 1-20.

Graham, Peter W. “Metapathography: Three Unruly Texts.” Literature and Medicine 16.1 (Spring 1997): 70-87.

---. “Minimalism and the Short Story.” Studies in Short Fiction 33 (Fall 1996): 487-95.

Grimal, Claude., and William L. Stull. “Stories Don’t Come Out of Thin Air.” Clockwatch Review: (a journal of the arts) 10.1-2 (1995): 9-16.

Grumbach, Doris. “The Extra Skin That Language Can Give: Recent Collections of Short Stories.” The Georgia Review 36.3 (1982): 668-674.

Hall, Vanessa. “Influences of Feminism and Class on Raymond Carver’s Short Stories.” The Raymond Carver Review 2 (Spring 2009): 54-80.

---. “It All Fell in on Him: Masculinities in Raymond Carver’s Short Stories and American Culture during the 1970s and 1980s.” Journal of Men’s Studies 17.2 (2009): 173-188.

---. “Radical Imaginings in Raymond Carver’s Short Stories and in American Culture.” Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 43.4 (December 2010): 87-103.

Harbaugh, Jim. “Literature (and Other Arts): What We Talk about When We Talk about Spirituality and Recovery.” Dionysos: The Literature and Addiction TriQuaterly 11.1 (Spring 2001): 35-46.

Harker, Ben. “‘To Be There, Inside, and Not Be There’: Raymond Carver and Class.” Textual Practice 21.4 (December 2007): 715-36.

Haslam, Thomas J. “‘Where I’m Calling From’: A Textual and Critical Study.” Studies in Short Fiction 29.1 (Winter 1992): 57-65.

Hathcock, Nelson. “‘The Possibility of Resurrection’: Re-Vision in Carver’s ‘Feathers’ and ‘Cathedral.’” Studies in Short Fiction 28.1 (Winter 1991): 31-39.

Hemmingson, Michael. “Carver’s ‘A Serious Talk.’” Explicator 66.4 (Summer 2008): 217-219.

---. “Carver’s ‘Intimacy.’” Explicator 67.1 (Fall 2008): 2-4.

---. “Editing Carver’s ‘Tell the Women We’re Going.’” Explicator 66.4 (Summer 2008): 235-237.

---. “Saying More without Trying to Say More: On Gordon Lish Reshaping the Body of Raymond Carver and Saving Barry Hannah.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 25.4 (2011): 479-498. 

---. “‘Will We Still Be Us?’: Raymond Carver’s Short Plays.” The Raymond Carver Review 3 (Spring 2011): 53-69.

Henning, Barbara. “Minimalism and the American Dream: ‘Shiloh’ by Bobbie Ann Mason and ‘Preservation’ by Raymond Carver.” Modern Fiction Studies 35.4 (Winter 1989): 689-698.

Henry, Patrick. “Raymond Carver and Tess Gallagher.” Philosophy and Literature 22.2 (October 1998): 413-77.

Hiber, Amanda Joy. “Size Matters.” Clackamas Literary Review 8 (2004): 32-37.

Hodge, Matthew. “‘Bicycles, Muscles, Cigarettes,’ and ESL: Raymond Carver in the Classroom.” Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 7.1-2 (Spring 2014): 44-52.

Hoffman, Emily. “The Hybrid Homage: Nathan Englander’s ‘What We Talk about When We Talk about Anne Frank.” Explicator 72.1 (2014): 45-8.

Horn, Nicholas. “Clevie Raymond, Raymond Clevie: Carver’s ‘The Father.’” Journal of the Short Story in English/Les Cahiers de la Nouvelle 19 (1992): 25-41.

---. “Seeing Double: The Two Lives of Raymond Carver.” A-B: Auto-Biography Studies 13.2 (Fall 1998): 271-97.

Howe, Irving. “Stories of Our Loneliness.” The New York Times Book Review (September 1983): 1, 42-43.

Houston, Robert. “A Stunning Inarticulateness.” The Nation 233. 1 (July 1981): 23-25.

Jansen, Reamy. “Being Lonely-Dimensions of the Short Story.” Cross Currents 39.4 (Winter 1989).

Jett, Kevin W. “Rethinking Raymond Carver’s Use of Metaphor in ‘Popular Mechanics.’” Notes on Contemporary Literature 34.3 (May 2004): 5-6.

Johnson, Charles. “Writing that Will Be ‘Around for a Time.’” Los Angeles Times Book Review (August 1988): 9, 11.

Johnson, Greg. “Three Contemporary Masters: Brodkey, Carver, Dubus.” The Georgia Review 43.4 (Winter 1989): 784-94.

Johnson, Robert. “‘Where I’m Calling From’: Inside the Loop.” Journal of the Short Story in English 33 (Autumn 1999): 49-57.

Johnston, Taylor. “‘Inside anything’: The Evacuation of Commodified Space in Raymond Carver’s ‘Cathedral.’” The Raymond Carver Review 5/6 (Winter 2016 / Spring 2017): 13-34.

Just, Daniel. “Is Less More? A Reinvention of Realism in Raymond Carver’s Minimalist Short Story.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 49.3 (Spring 2008): 303-318.

Kappes, Joseph. “‘I’d just like to get to the bottom of this’: Deferred Narratives of Knowledge and Identity in ‘Bicycles, Muscles, Cigarettes.” 4 (Summer 2014) 37-55.

Kane, Thomas H. “The Deaths of Authors: Literary Celebrity and Automortography in Acker, Bartheleme, Buckowski, and Carver’s Last Acts.” Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory 15.4 (October 2004): 409-443.

Kaufmann, David. “Yuppie Postmodernism.” Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory 47.2 (Summer 1991): 93-116.

Kelly, Lionel. “American fat: obesity and the short story.” Yearbook of English Studies (Modern Humanities Research Association) 31 (2001): 218-229.

---. “Anton Chekhov and Raymond Carver: A Writer’s Strategies of Reading.” Yearbook of English Studies 26 (1996): 218-31.

---. “Reviewed Works: ‘The Short Stories of Raymond Carver: A Critical Study’ by Raymond Carver, Kirk Nesset; ‘Raymond Carver: An Oral Biography’ by Sam Halpert.” The Modern Language Review 93.1 (1998): 208-210.

Kleppe, Sandra Lee. “Four More Priamels in the Poetry of Raymond Carver.” Classical and Modern Literature: A Quarterly 24.1 (Spring 2004): 61-75.

---. “Medical Humanism in the Poetry of Raymond Carver.” Journal of Medical Humanities 27.1 (Spring 2006): 39-55.

---. “Raymond Carver and Biography.” The Raymond Carver Review 5/6 (Winter 2016 / Spring 2017): 7-12.

---. “Review Essay 2009: A Watershed Year in Carver Studies.” Journal of American Studies 44.4 (November 2010): 795-801.

---. “Women and Violence in the Works of Raymond Carver.” Journal of the Short Story in English 46 (Spring 2006): 107-117.

Kurihara, Takeshi. “Homeward Bound: A Comparative Study of Carver’s Renegade Drivers with

Kerouac’s Characters. “Chu-Shikoku Studies in American Literature/Chu-Shikoku Amerika Bungaku Kenkyū 45 (June 2009): 13-21.

Kuzma, Greg. “Ultramarine: Poems That Almost Stop the Heart.” Michigan Quarterly Review 27.2 (Spring 1988): 355-63.

Lacy, Robert. “Adrift in the Land of Shame.” North Dakota Quarterly 75.3-4 (Summer 2008): 96-102.

---. “Raymond Carver as Poet.” Sewanee Review 124.1 (Winter 2016): 114:117.

Lainsbury, G. P. “A Critical Context for the Carver Chronotope.” Canadian Review of American Studies 27.1 (1997): 77-91.

Lake, Christina Bieber. “Technology, Contingency and Grace: Raymond Carver’s ‘A Small, Good Thing.’” Christianity and Literature 60.2 (Winter 2011): 289-304.

Le Claire, Thomas. “Fiction Chronicle: January to June, 1981.”Contemporary Literature 23.1 (Winter 1982): 83-91.

Lehman, Daniel W. “Raymond Carver’s Management of Symbol.” Journal of the Short Story in English 17 (Autumn 1991): 43-58.

---. “Symbolic Significance in the Stories of Raymond Carver.” Journal of the Short Story in English 46 (Spring 2006): 75-88.

Leypoldt, Günter. “Raymond Carver’s ‘Epiphanic Moments.’” Style 35.3 (Fall 2001): 531-47.

---. “Recent Realist Fiction and the Idea of Writing ‘After Postmodernism.’” American Studies/Amerikastudien 49.1 (2004): 19-34.

---. “Reconsidering Raymond Carver’s ‘Development:’ The Revisions of ‘So Much Water So Close to Home.’” Contemporary Literature 43.2 (Summer 2002): 317-341.

Livingston, Evelyn. “It Was All about Story.” Sewanee Review 119.3 (Summer 2011): 451-455.

Lundén, Rolf. “Direct and Indirect Influence: The Impact of the American Short Story on Swedish Literature.” American Studies in Scandinavia 42.2 (2010): 21-36.

Magee, John. “Carver’s ‘Chef’s House.’” Explicator 55.2 (Winter 1997): 111-12.

---. “Carver’s ‘They’re Not Your Husband.’” Explicator 53.3 (Spring 1995): 180-81.

---. “Raymond Carver’s ‘Where I’m Calling from’: A Reflection of His Life and Art.” California History 79.1 (2000): 18-23.

Malamet, Elliott. “Raymond Carver and the Fear of Narration.” Journal of the Short Story in English 17 (Autumn 1991): 59-74.

Malone, Aubrey. “Writing Under the Influence: Alcohol and the Works of 13 American Authors.” 6 (2018): 229.

Maniez, Claire. “Quote-Unquote: Raymond Carver and Metafiction.” Journal of the Short Story in English 33 (Autumn 1999): 9-23.

---. “What’s in a Title? Au seuil des Nouvelles de Raymond Carver.” Q/W/E/R/T/Y : Arts, Littératures & Civilisations du Monde Anglophone 9 (October 1999): 155-61.

Mars-Jones, Adam. “Words for the Walking Wounded.” The Times Literary Supplement 412 (January 1982): 76.

Matsuoka, Naomi. “Murakami Haruki and Raymond Carver: The American Scene.” Comparative Literature Studies 30.4 (1993): 423-38.

Max, D. T. “The Carver Chronicles.” New York Times Magazine (August 1998): 34+.

Maxfield, James. “Lost in the fog: the narrator of Carver’s ‘Blackbird Pie.’” Journal of the Short Story in English/Les Cahiers de la Nouvelle 23 (1994): 51-62.

May, Charles E. “‘Do You See What I’m Saying?’: The Inadequacy of Explanation and the Uses of Story in the Short Fiction of Raymond Carver.” Yearbook of English Studies 31 (2001): 39-49.

---. “Putting Yourself in the Shoes of Raymond Carver.” Journal of the Short Story in English 46 (Spring 2006): 31-42.

---. “Reality in the Modern Short Story.” Style: A Quarterly Journal of Aesthetics, Poetics, Stylistics, and Literary Criticism 27.3 (Fall 1993): 369-379.

McCracken, David. “‘In this too, she was right’: Alcoholic Acceptance in ‘Gazebo.’” Raymond Carver Review 7 (Fall 2019/Spring 2020): 45-72.

McDermott, John A. “American Epicleti: Using James Joyce to Read Raymond Carver.” The Raymond Carver Review 3 (Spring 2011): 37-52.

McInerney, Jay. “Raymond Carver: A Still, Small Voice.” New York Times Book Review (August 1989). Meikle, Kyle. “A Theory of Adaptation Audiences.” Literature/Film Quarterly 45.4 (Fall 2017).

Messer, H Collin. “Fleeing the Wasteland of Alcoholism: Alienation, Recovery, and Hope in Raymond Carver’s ‘Cathedral.’” Studies in Short Fiction 37.1 (Winter 2012): 43-58.

Meyer, Adam. “Now You See Him, Now You Don’t, Now You Do Again: The Evolution of Raymond Carver’s Minimalism.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 30.4 (Summer 1989): 239-51.

Miceli, Barbara. “Finestre ed epifanie nella poesia di Raymond Carver: ‘Happiness,’ ‘Rain,’ ‘The Window.’” Altre Modernità (2015): 214-224.

Middleton, Peter. “High Visibility.” Rethinking History 2.3 (1998): 331-338.

Miltner, Robert.“‘Bad Raymond’ and ‘The Desperado Mandate’: Masculinity in Raymond Carver’s Early Poetry.” Atenea 28.1 (June 2008): 55-64.

---. “‘Car of My Sleepless Nights’: Mobility and Metaphor in Raymond Carver’s Poetry.” Atenea 21.1-2 (2001): 171-78.

---. “Introduction.” Raymond Carver Review 7 (Fall 2019/Spring 2020): 1-2.

---. “Raymond Carver and the Architecture of Emotion.” EnterText: An Interactive Interdisciplinary E- Journal for Cultural and Historical Studies and Creative Work 7.3 (Winter 2007).

---. “Raymond Carver’s ‘Myers Trio.’” Journal of the Short Story 52 (Spring 2009): 137-149.

---. “Recent Publications in Carver Studies.” The Raymond Carver Review 4 (2014): 74-95.

Mirarchi, Steve. “Conditions of Possibility: Religious Revision in Raymond Carver’s ‘Cathedral.’” Religion and the Arts 2.3 (1998): 299-310.

Mitchell, Alex, and Kevin McGee. “Writing in Style: Pattern Languages and Writing Short Fiction.” Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies 3 (2011): 139-160.

Miura, Reiichi. “On the Globalization of Literature: Haruki Murakami, Tim O’Brien, and Raymond Carver.” The Electronic Book Review (December 2003).

Monti, Enrico. “Il Miglior Fabbo? On Gordon Lish’s Editing of Carver’s ‘What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.’” The Raymond Carver Review 1 (Winter 2007): 53-74.

Mullen, Bill. “A Subtle Spectacle: Televisual Culture in the Short Stories of Raymond Carver.”Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 39.2 (Winter 1998): 99-114.

Myers, David Gershom. “Between Stories.” Philosophy and Literature 22.2 (Oct 1998): 457-67.

Myers, David Gershom. “Between Stories.” Philosophy and Literature 22.2 (1998): 457-467.

Nayebpour, Karam. “Activation of Empathy Feelings in Raymond Carver’s ‘A Small, Good Thing.’” Selçuk Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Edebiyat Dergisi 38 (Winter 2017): 265-278.

Nayman, Ira. “The Adaptable Altman.” Creative Screenwriting 4.3 (Fall 1997): 84-96.

Neale, Derek. “Short stories in the academy: mimesis, diegesis and the role of drama and film.” Short Fiction in Theory and Practice (Bristol: Intellect) 2.1-2 (2012): 43-57.

Nesset, Kirk. “Insularity and Self Enlargement in Raymond Carver’s ‘Cathedral.’” Essays in Literature 21.1 (Spring 1994): 116-28.

---. “The Final Stitch: Raymond Carver and Metaphor.” Profils Americains 4 (1993): 21-27.

---. “‘This Word Love’: Sexual Politics and Silence in Early Raymond Carver.” American Literature 63.2 (June 1991): 292-313.

Ní Éigeartaigh, Aoileann. “Space, Domesticity and the Everyday: Re-reading Raymond Carver’s Women.” The Raymond Carver Review 2 (Spring 2009): 33-53.

Nissen, Rudolf. “‘Short Cuts’ (R. Carver, R. Altman) im Englischunterricht der Sekundarstufe II.” Anglistik und Englischunterricht 61 (1997): 83-97.

Nocera, Gigliola. “Raymond Carver’s America profonda.” Journal of the Short Story in English 46 (Spring 2006): 165-181.

Nussey, Kent. “Raymond Carver Revisited.” Brick 68 (Fall 2001): 102-10.

Olson, Ann. “‘Kill who?’: Forgiving the Immigrants in Raymond Carver’s ‘Sixty Acres.’” The Raymond Carver Review 5/6 (Winter 2016/ Spring 2017): 46-57.

Pacor, Andrea. “Metaphorical Structure in Raymond Carver’s ‘Distance’ and ‘Everything Stuck to Him.’” Prospero: Rivista di Culture Anglo-Germaniche 4 (1997): 16-37.

Palakeel, Thomas. “Third World Short Story as National Allegory?” Journal Modern Literature 20 (1996): 100.

Parker, Joshua. “Resonance: Reading ‘Homoglossia’ across Narration and Dialogue.” Poetics Today 39.4 (December 2018): 679-701.

Peterson, Polly Rose. “Psychological Distance in Raymond Carver’s ‘Cathedral.’” The Explicator 70.3 (2012): 167-169.

Phillips, Jacqueline. “Chekhov’s Legacy: The Influence of the Implicit and the Dramatic Effect.” Journal of the Short Story in English 51 (Autumn 2008): 29-37.

Plath, James. “‘After the Denim’ and ‘After the Storm’: Raymond Carver Comes to Terms with the Hemingway Influence.” Hemingway Review 13.2 (Spring 1994): 37-51.

---. “When Push Comes to Pull: Raymond Carver and the ‘Popular Mechanics’ of Divorce.” Notes on Contemporary Literature 20.3 (May 1990): 2-4.

Polonsky, Katrina. “Masculinity and the Domestic Space: Reconsidering ‘Neighbors’ and ‘Collectors.’” The Raymond Carver Review 4 (Summer 2014): 22-36.

Pope, Dan. “The Post-Minimalist American Short Story or What Comes after Carver?” Gettysburg Review 1.2 (1988): 331-42.

Pountney, Jonathan. “Raymond Carver and Haruki Murakami: Literary Influences in Late-Capitalism.” The Raymond Carver Review 5/6 (Winter 2016 /Spring 2017): 58-78.

Powell, Jon. “The Stories of Raymond Carver: The Menace of Perpetual Uncertainty.” Studies in Short Fiction 31.4 (Fall 1994): 647-56.

Raabe, David. “Carver’s ‘A Serious Talk.’” Explicator 62.4 (Summer 2004): 238-242.

Race, William H. “Some Visual Priamels from Sappho to Richard Wilbur and Raymond Carver.” Classical and Modern Literature: A Quarterly 20.4 (Fall 2000): 3-17.

Raffel, Stanley. “Imagination.” Human Studies: A Journal for Philosophy and the Social Sciences 27.3 (2004): 207-20.

Ravey, Jennifer. “Hearing and Listening: Lloyd’s Failure in Raymond Carver’s ‘Careful.’” CCTE Studies 75 (September 2010): 20-27.

Robinson, Marilynne. “Marriage and Other Astonishing Bonds.” The New York Times Book Review (May 1988): 1, 35, 40-1.

Roche, David. “Disease and Anti-Naturalism in Raymond Carver’s ‘Fat’ and ‘A Small, Good Thing’ and David Lynch’s Blue Velvet.” Interfaces: Image Texte Language 26 (2006): 159-173.

Rockrohr, Dillon. “The Morals of Stories: Narrating Judgment in Carver, Borges, and Englander.” Philosophy and Literature 41.1 (April 2017): 103-118.

Rodado, Juan. “What do we talk about when we talk about psychoanalysis?” International Forum on Psychoanalysis 25.3 (2016): 179-185.

Román, Clara. “‘No other word will do’: Language and Narrative Unreliability in Raymond Carver’s ‘Blackbird Pie.’” Persistence and Resistance in English Studies: New Research 22:117 (2018): 2-10.

Romney, Jonathan. “In the Time of Earthquakes.” Sight and Sound 4.3 (Mar 1994): 8-11.

Rubins, Josh. “Small Expectations.” The New York Times Review of Books (November 1983): 40-41.

Runyon, Randolph Paul. “Altman’s Short Cuts: Three Unacknowledged Sources.” Q/W/E/R/T/Y: Arts, Littératures & Civilisations du Monde Anglophone (Université de Pau) 9 (October 1999): 163-67.

---. “Dreams and Other Connections among Carver’s Recovered Stories.” Journal of the Short Story in English 46 (Spring 2006): 63-73.

Russell, Richard Rankin. “Reading Conor McPherson’s The Weir through Raymond Carver’s ‘A Small Good Thing.’” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 29.3 (2016): 194-195.

Sadeq, Ala Eddin. “Epiphanic awakenings in Raymond Carver’s ‘Cathedral’ and Alice Walker’s ‘Everyday Use.’” Advances in Language and Literary Studies (Australian International Academic Centre) 7.3 (2016): 157-160.

Schweizer, Harold. “On Waiting and Hoping in Raymond Carver’s ‘A Small Good Thing.’” Journal of the Short Story in English 46 (2006): 139-145.

---. “Robert Altman’s Short Cuts: A Phenomenology of Reading.” Q/W/E/R/T/Y : Arts, Littératures & Civilisations du Monde Anglophone 9 (October 1999): 169-75.

---. “The Very Short Stories of Raymond Carver.” College Literature 21.2 (1994): 126-131.

Scofield, Martin. “Closer to Home: Carver versus Altman.” Studies in Short Fiction 33.3 (Summer 1996): 387-99.

---. “Negative Pastoral: The Art of Raymond Carver’s Stories.” The Cambridge Quarterly. 23.3 (1994): 243-62.

---. “Story and History in Raymond Carver.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 40.3 (Spring 1999): 266-80.

Scott, A. O. “Looking for Raymond Carver.” New York Review of Books 46.13 (August 1999): 52-59. 

Seemann, Brian. “Existential Connections: The Influence of Raymond Carver on Haruki Murakami.” The Raymond Carver Review 1 (Winter 2007): 75-92.

Shute, Kathleen W. “Finding the Words: The Struggle for Salvation in the Fiction of Raymond Carver.” The Hollins Critic 24.5 (December 1987): 1-10.

Siebert, Hilary. “Houses of Identity: Inhabiting and Emerging from Despair.” Journal of the Short Story in English 46 (Spring 2006): 129-138.

Simmons, Phillip E. “Minimalist Fiction as ‘Low’ Postmodernism: Mass Culture and the Search for History.” Genre 34 (1991): 45-62.

Simpson, Mona, and Lewis Buzbee. “Raymond Carver: The Art of Fiction No. 76.” Paris Review 88 (Summer 1983).

Skenazy, Paul. “Canonized and ostracized; or Ripping off the reading list.” Quarry West 31 (1993): 23-33.

---. “Life in Limbo: Ray Carver’s Fiction.” Enclitic 11.1 (Fall 1988): 77-83.

Sklenicka, Carol. “Looking for Raymond Carver’s Birthplace.” Clackamas Literary Review 3.1 (Spring 1999): 53-58.

Smith, Aaron. “Raymond Carver, postmoderniste récalcitrant.” Q/W/E/R/T/Y : Arts, Littératures & Civilisations du Monde Anglophone 9 (October 1999): 181-86.

Solotaroff, Ted. “Raymond Carver: Going through the Pain.” The American Poetry Review 18.2 (March-April 1989): 47-49.

Sorby, Angela. “Raymond Carver and the Temperance Tradition.” The Raymond Carver Review 1 (Winter 2007): 16-32.

Steed, J. P. “Raymond Carver and the Poem as Transitional Object.” Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought 44.3 (Spring 2003): 309-322.

Stein, Madeleine. “Keeping Our Eyes Closed: Unsustainable Transformation in Raymond Carver’s ‘Cathedral.’” The Raymond Carver Review 5/6 (Winter 2016 / Spring 2017): 35-45.

Stewart, Robert. “Reimagining Raymond Carver on Film: A Talk with Robert Altman and Tess Gallagher.” New York Times Book Review (September 1993).

Stone, Laurie. “Feeling No Pain.” VLS 20 (October 1983): 54-55.

Stull, William L. “Beyond Hopelessville: Another Side of Raymond Carver.” Philological Quarterly 64.1 (Winter 1985): 1-15.

---. “Raymond Carver Remembered: Three Early Stories.” Studies in Short Fiction 25.4 (Fall 1988): 461-477.

---. “Visions and Revisions.” Chariton Review 10.1 (Spring 1984): 80-86.

Stull, William L., and Maureen P. Carroll. “Two Darings.” Philosophy and Literature 22.2 (October 1998): 468-77.

---. Eds. “Prolegomena to Any Future Carver Studies.” Journal of the Short Story in English 46 (2006): 13-17.

Sweeten, Paul, Emilie Piarou and Lucie Collas. “Light and Change: Repressed Escapism in What We Talk about When We Talk about Love.” Journal of the Short Story in English 60 (Spring 2013): 97-112.

Szporer, Michael. “Minimalism and the Collapse of the Soviet Empire Style.” Mosaic 25 (1992): 132-133.

---. “The Narrowed Voice: Minimalism and Raymond Carver.” Studies in Short Fiction 31.1 (Winter 1994): 23-37.

Taub, Gadi. “On Small, Good Things: Raymond Carver’s Modest Existentialism.” Raritan: A Quarterly Review 22.2 (Fall 2002): 102-19.

Thomières, Daniel. “Raymond Carver’s ‘The Father’: Some Thoughts about Identity.” Journal of the Short Story in English 42 (Spring 2004): 147-158.

Thompson, Clifford. “The Art, Magic, and Blues of Raymond Carver.” The Threepenny Review 147 (2016): 10-11.

Tobin, Vera, and Todd Oakley. “What We Talk About When We Talk About Texts: Identity Compressions and the Ontology of the ‘Work.’” Semiotica: Journal of the International Association for Semiotic Studies/ Revue de l’Association Internationale de Sémiotique 215 (2017): 119-141.

Trussler, Michael. “An estrangement of the real: the neorealist short story and photography.” Journal of the Short Story in English/Les Cahiers de la Nouvelle 19 (1992): 69-82.

---. “‘Famous Times’: Historicity in the Short Fiction of Richard Ford and Raymond Carver.” Wascana Review of Contemporary Poetry and Short Fiction 32.1-2 (Spring-Fall 1997): 166-84.

---. “The Narrowed Voice: Minimalism and Raymond Carver.” Studies in Short Fiction 31.1 (Winter 1994): 23-37.

Tysdal, Dan. “Inarticulation and the Figure of Enjoyment: Raymond Carver’s Minimalism Meets David Foster Wallace’s ‘A Radically Condensed History of Postindustrial Life.’” Wascana Review of Contemporary Poetry and Short Fiction 38.1 (Spring 2003): 66-83.

Vander Weele, Michael. “Raymond Carver and the Language of Desire.” Denver Quarterly 22.1 (Summer 1987): 108-122.

Verley, Claudine. “‘Errand,’ or Raymond Carver’s Realism in a Champagne Cork.” Journal of the Short Story in English 46 (2006): 147-163.

---. “Narration and Interiority in Raymond Carver’s ‘Where I’m Calling From.’” Journal of the Short Story in English 13 (August 1989): 91-102.

---. “The Window and The Eye in Raymond Carver’s ‘Boxes.’” Journal of the Short Story in English 15 (1990): 95-106.

Weber, Bruce. “Raymond Carver: A Chronicler of Blue-Collar Despair.” New York Times Magazine (June 1984): 36-50.

Weber, Myles. “Raymond Carver’s Comic Error.” New England Review: Middlebury Series 33.3 (2012): 63-79.

---. “Revisiting Minimalism.” Northwest Review 37.3 (1999): 117-25.

---. “The case for a deluxe edition of Raymond Carver’s ‘The Bath.’” Chattahoochee Review 22.3 (2002): 93-97.

Wiederhold, Eve. “A Feminist Re-Vision of the Work of Interpretation in Raymond Carver’s ‘Cathedral.” The Raymond Carver Review 2 (Spring 2009): 96-115.

Williams, Gary. “Raymond Carver.” Western American Literature 32.1 (Spring 1997): 25-31.

Wolff, Tobias. “Raymond Carver: Had His Cake and Ate It Too.” Esquire 112.3 (September 1989): 240-242, 244, 247-248.

Wood, Sarah. “Optic Nerve.” Oxford Literary Review 26 (2004): 139-53.

Wriglesworth, Chad. “Raymond Carver and Alcoholics Anonymous: The Narrative under the ‘Surface of Things.’” Religion and the Arts 8.4 (2004): 458-478.

---. “Stepping onto the Yakama Reservation: Land and Water Rights in Raymond Carver’s ‘Sixty Acres.’” Western American Literature 45.1 (Spring 2010): 54-79.

Wyley, Edna. “Raymond Carver.” The Poetry Ireland Review 59 (Winter 1998): 36-38.

Xhonneux, Lies. “Language is the Only Thing That Lies: Linguistic Scepticism in Rebecca Brown’s Reinvention of Literary Minimalism.” Anglia: Zeitschrift für Englische Philologie 130.3 (2012): 378-400. 

Young, William. “Men, Menace, and Transcendence in Raymond Carver.” Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought 59.1 (Autumn 2018): 99-114.

Zarranz, Libe García. “‘Passionate Fictions’: Raymond Carver and Feminist Theory.” The Raymond Carver Review 2 (Spring 2009): 20-32.

Book Chapters

Amir, Ayala. “Small Good Things: Symbols and Descriptive Details in Carver’s Short Fiction.” In Critical Insights: Raymond Carver. Ed. James Plath. Amenia, NY: Salem Press, 2013. 187-200.

---. “Teaching Carver through the Eye of the Camera.” In Carver Across the Curriculum: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching the Fiction and Poetry of Raymond Carver. Eds. Paul Benedict Grant and Katherine Ashley. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011. 139-152.

Ashley, Katherine. “Translating Caver in the Modern Languages Classroom.” In Carver Across the Curriculum: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching the Fiction and Poetry of Raymond Carver. Eds. Paul Benedict Grant and Katherine Ashley. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011. 93-108.

Bailey, Peter J. “Short Cuts: Robert Altman’s Take on Raymond Carver.” In Critical Insights: Raymond Carver. Ed. James Plath. Amenia, New York: Salem Press, 2013. 201-225.

Bataillard, Pascal. “Au vif de Carver, les petites coupures d’Altman.” In ‘Short Cuts’: Raymond Carver, Robert Altman (Lectures d’une Œuvre). Ed. Philippe Romanski. Paris, France: FeniXX, 1999. 35-46.

Berlant, Lauren. “America, ‘Fat,’ the Fetus.” In Gendered Agents: Women and Institutional Knowledge. Eds. Silvestra Mariniello and Paul A. Bové. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998. 192-244. 

Bieber Lake, Christina. “Technology, Contingency, and Grace: Raymond Carver’s ‘A Small, Good Thing.’” In Prophets of the Posthuman: American Fiction, Biotechnology, and the Ethics of Personhood. Notre Dame, Indiana: Notre Dame Press, 2013. 153-167.

Birkenstein, Jeff. “Teaching Significant Food in Carver’s Fiction.” In Carver Across the Curriculum: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching the Fiction and Poetry of Raymond Carver. Eds. Paul Benedict Grant and Katherine Ashley. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011. 79-92.

Blackwell, Matthew. “What We Talk about When We Talk about Lish.” In After the Program Era: The Past, Present, and Future of Creative Writing in the University. University of Iowa Press, 2016. 113-122.

Bloom, Harold. “Raymond Carver.” In Short Story Writers and Short Stories. Philadelphia, PA: Chelsea House Publishers, 2005. 175-176.

Boof-Vermesse, Isabelle. “Désir médiat et violence immédiate.” In ‘Short Cuts’: Raymond Carver, Robert Altman (Lectures d’une Œuvre). Ed. Philippe Romanski. Paris, France: FeniXX, 1999. 149-164.

Bowers, Abigail L. “Seeing Ourselves from the Outside: Voyeuristic Empathy in Raymond Carver’s ‘Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?’” In New Paths to Raymond Carver: Critical Essays on His Life, Fiction, and Poetry. Eds. Sandra Lee Kleppe and Robert Miltner. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2008. 92-103.

Busch, Frederick. “Deaths.” In Writers on Writing: The Art of the Short Story. Ed. Maurice A. Lee. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2005. 159-166.

Camy, Gérard. “‘Short Cuts,’ l’Amérique en raccourci de Robert Altman.” In ‘Short Cuts’: Raymond Carver, Robert Altman (Lectures d’une Œuvre). Ed. Philippe Romanski. Paris, France: FeniXX, 1999. 23-34. 

Chénetier, Marc. “Living On/Off the Reserve: Performance, Interrogation, and Negativity in the Works of Raymond Carver.” In Critical Angles: European Views of Contemporary American Literature. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1986. 164-90.

Clark, Robert C. “A Chekhov-Hemingway Amalgamation: Raymond Carver’s ‘Cathedral.’” In American Literary Minimalism. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2015. 49-68.

Clarke, Graham. “Investing the Glimpse: Raymond Carver and the Syntax of Silence.” In The New American Writing: Essays on American Literature Since 1970. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1990. 99-122.

Collingwood-Whittick, Sheila. “Demythologising America: Carver’s alternative vision of life in the USA.” In ‘Short Cuts’: Raymond Carver, Robert Altman (Lectures d’une Œuvre). Ed. Philippe Romanski. Paris, France: FeniXX, 1999. 61-78.

Constantini, Mariaconcetta. “The other America of Raymond Carver.” In Telling the stories of America: history, literature, and the arts: proceedings of the 14.biennial conference. Ed. Alessandro Clericuzio, et al. Facoltà di Lingue, Pescara: Università Gabriele D’Annu, 2000. 126-140.

Curnutt, Kirk Lee. “Raymond Carver: tense, telling, memory.” In Wise Economies: brevity and storytelling in American short stories. Moscow, ID: University of Idaho Press, 1997. 231-245.

Cushman, Keith. “Blind, Intertextual Love: ‘The Blind Man’ and Raymond Carver’s ‘Cathedral.’” D. H. Lawrence’s Literary Inheritors. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991. 155-66.

De la Salle, Marie le Grix. “‘Waiting for what? I’d like to know’: Confusing Expectations in Raymond Carver’s Train Stories.” In Not Far from Here: The Paris Symposium on Raymond Carver. Eds. Vasiliki Fachard and Robert Miltner. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2014. 119-127.

De Sherbinin, Julie W. “Chekhov and the Anglophone Short Story.” In Approaches to Teaching the Works of Anton Chekhov. Eds. Michael C. Finke and Michael Holquist. New York, NY: Modern Language Association, 2016. 34-40.

Dobozy, Tamas. “McCarthy’s Mailmen: The Cold War, Raymond Carver, and ‘What Do You Do in San Francisco?’” In New Paths to Raymond Carver: Critical Essays on His Life, Fiction, and Poetry. Eds. Sandra Lee Kleppe and Robert Miltner. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2008. 115-131.

Dubois, Dominique. “Raymond Carver’s prose : a poetry of blanks.” In ‘Short Cuts’: Raymond Carver, Robert Altman (Lectures d’une Œuvre). Ed. Philippe Romanski. Paris, France: FeniXX, 1999. 79-90.

Dziedzic, Piotr. “Talkers, Callers, Shapers: Value and Discourse in the Stories of Raymond Carver.” In Reflections on Ethical Values in Post(?)Modern American Literature. Eds. Teresa Pyzik and Pawel Jędrzejko. Katowice: Wydawnictwo UŚ, 2000. 44-60.

Edwins, Jo Angela. “Sleeping and Waking: Raymond Carver’s Late Poetry of Loss.” In New Paths to Raymond Carver: Critical Essays on His Life, Fiction, and Poetry. Eds. Sandra Lee Kleppe and Robert Miltner. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2008. 8-19.

Fabre, Claire. “Feminist Perspectives on the Works of Raymond Carver.” In Critical Insights: Raymond Carver. Ed. James Plath. Amenia, New York: Salem Press, 2013. 124-137.

---. “Lack and Leftovers: ‘Feathers’ and ‘Menudo,’ or the Impossible Remains.” In Not Far from Here: The Paris Symposium on Raymond Carver. Eds. Vasiliki Fachard and Robert Miltner. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2014. 97-105.  

---. “The Poetics of the Banal in ‘Elephant and Other Stories.’” In New Paths to Raymond Carver: Critical Essays on His Life, Fiction, and Poetry. Eds. Sandra Lee Kleppe and Robert Miltner. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2008. 173-186.

Fachard, Vasiliki. Carver, Realism, and Narrative Self-Consciousness.” In Critical Insights: Raymond Carver. Ed. James Plath. Amenia, New York: Salem Press, 2013. 172-186.

---. “Signs vs. Symbols: Gifts in Raymond Carver’s ‘Cathedral.’” In Not Far From Here: The Paris Symposium on Raymond Carver. Eds. Vasiliki Fachard and Robert Miltner. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2014. 83-95.

Firšt, Ksenija. “Constructing Gender through Language in the Works of Raymond Carver.” In On the Borders of Convention. Eds. Aleksandra Nikčević Batrićević and Marija Knežević. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010. 159-170.

Floquet, Pierre. “‘Short Cuts’ : des traces de Carver aux fausses pistes d’Altman.” In ‘Short Cuts’: Raymond Carver, Robert Altman (Lectures d’une Œuvre). Ed. Philippe Romanski. Paris, France: FeniXX, 1999. 47-60.

Gallagher, Tess. “And: Some Thoughts on the Narrative Impulse in Contemporary Poetry.” A Contert of Tenses: Essays on Poetry. Ann Arbor: Universe of Michigan Press, 1987.  67-82.

---. “False Sky: Introduction to the Japanese Edition of ‘Ultramarine.’” In New Paths to Raymond Carver: Critical Essays on His Life, Fiction, and Poetry. Eds. Sandra Lee Kleppe and Robert Miltner. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2008. 1-7.

García Zarranz, Libe. “A Threatening Fetish: The Female Body through Carver’s Hitchcockian Eye.” In Not Far From Here: The Paris Symposium on Raymond Carver. Eds. Vasiliki Fachard and Robert Miltner. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2014. 69-80.

Goodheart, Eugene. “Raymond Carver’s ‘Cathedral.’” In Pieces of Resistance. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1987. 162-166. 

Grant, Paul Benedict. “‘It’s Grave… Tempered with Humor’: Teaching Carver in a Humor Course.” In Carver Across the Curriculum: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching the Fiction and Poetry of Raymond Carver. Eds. Paul Benedict Grant and Katherine Ashley. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011. 65-78.

---. “Laughter’s Creature: The Humor of Raymond Carver.” In New Paths to Raymond Carver: Critical Essays on His Life, Fiction, and Poetry. Eds. Sandra Lee Kleppe and Robert Miltner. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2008. 154-172. 

---. “Raymond Carver: Student, Teacher, Mentor.” In Carver Across the Curriculum: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching the Fiction and Poetry of Raymond Carver. Eds. Paul Benedict Grant and Katherine Ashley. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011. 3-17.

Graver, Lawrence. “Raymond Carver (1938-1988).” In The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story. Columbia University Press, 2000. 188-193.

Grunert, Andrea. “Figures of crisis in ‘Short Cuts’ by Robert Altman: crisis of society, crisis of representation, a society put into crisis by its images?” In ‘Short Cuts’: Raymond Carver, Robert Altman (Lectures d’une Œuvre). Ed. Philippe Romanski. Paris, France: FeniXX, 1999. 91-110.

Hagarty, Monika. “Being There, Inside, and Not Being There – Raymond Carver’s Fascination with Otherness.” In The Writing of Exile. Eds. Wojciech Kalaga and Tadeusz Rachwal. Śląsk, Poland. 2001. 237-249.

Hussman, Lawrence E. “Raymond Carver (1938-1988).” In Desire and disillusionment: a guide to American fiction since 1890. NY: Peter Lang Publishing Inc., 2013. 279-285.

Josipović, Sandra. “The Flouting of Social Convention and Rules in the Stories of Raymond Carver and Haruki Murakami.” In On the Borders of Convention. Eds. Aleksandra Nikčević-Batrićević and Marija Knežević. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010. 103-114.

Karlsson, Ann-Marie. “The Hyperrealistic Short Story: A Postmodern Twilight Zone.” In Criticism in the Twilight Zone: Postmodern Perspectives on Literature & Politics. Eds. Danuta Zadworna-Fjellestad and Lennart A. Björk. Stockholm, Sweden: Coronet Books Inc., 1990. 144-153.

Kennedy, J. Gerald. “From Anderson’s ‘Winesburg’ to Carver’s ‘Cathedral:’ The Short Story Sequence and the Semblance of Community.” Modern American Short Story Sequences: Composite Fictions and Fictive Communities. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. 194-216.

Kiperman, Zhenya. “Teaching Carver through Robert Altman’s Short Cuts.” In Carver Across the Curriculum: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching the Fiction and Poetry of Raymond Carver. Eds. Paul Benedict Grant and Katherine Ashley. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011. 125-138.

Kittredge, William. “Bulletproof.” In New Paths to Raymond Carver: Critical Essays on His Life, Fiction, and Poetry. Eds. Sandra Lee Kleppe and Robert Miltner. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2008. 187-195.

Kleppe, Sandra Lee. “Performing and Deforming Carver in the Classroom.” In Carver Across the Curriculum: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching the Fiction and Poetry of Raymond Carver. Eds. Paul Benedict Grant and Katherine Ashley. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011. 109-124. 

---. “Raymond Carver in the Twenty-First Century.” In A Companion to the American Short Story. Chichester, England: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. 366-379.

---. “Raymond Carver’s Poet-Voyeur as Involved Spectator.” In New Paths to Raymond Carver: Critical Essays on His Life, Fiction, and Poetry. Eds. Sandra Lee Kleppe and Robert Miltner. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2008. 62-74.

Koïs, Line. “Autopsie du silence: les non-dits de la violence dans ‘Short Cuts, Selected Stories’ de Raymond Carver .” In ‘Short Cuts’: Raymond Carver, Robert Altman (Lectures d’une Œuvre). Ed. Philippe Romanski. Paris, France: FeniXX, 1999. 111-130.

Kolker, Robert. “Screening Raymond Carver: Robert Altman’s Short Cuts.” In Twentieth-Century American Fiction on Screen. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 179-190.

Lainsbury, G.P. “Reference ≠ Reduction: Literature and Life of Raymond Carver.” In Not Far From Here: The Paris Symposium on Raymond Carver. Eds. Vasiliki Fachard and Robert Miltner. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2014. 13-21.

Lefebvre, Jacques. “‘Short Cuts’ : fragments d’analyse.” In ‘Short Cuts’: Raymond Carver, Robert Altman (Lectures d’une Œuvre). Ed. Philippe Romanski. Paris, France: FeniXX, 1999. 233-244.

Lohafer, Susan. “Loving (?) Raymond Carver.” In Reading for Storyness: Preclosure Theory, Empirical Poetics and Culture in the Short Story. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 2003. 93-112.

Lonnquist, Barbara C. “Narrative Displacement and Literary Faith: Raymond Carver’s Inheritance from Flannery O’Connor.” In Since Flannery O’Connor: Essays on the Contemporary American Short Story. Macomb: Western Illinois University Press, 1987. 142-50.

Lott, Brett. “Before We Get Started.” In Open Book: Essays from the Vermont College Postgraduate Writers Conference. Eds. Kate Fetherston and Roger Weingarten. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2006. 129-140.

MacGowan, Christopher. “Raymond Carver (1938-1988).” In The Twentieth-Century American Fiction Handbook. West Sussex, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. 67-71.

Magrino, William L. “American Voyeurism: Why Does Raymond Carver Want Us to Watch?” In New Paths to Raymond Carver: Critical Essays on His Life, Fiction, and Poetry. Eds. Sandra Lee Kleppe and Robert Miltner. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2008. 75-91.

McInerney, Jay. “Raymond Carver: A Still, Small Voice.” In Passing the Word: Writers on Their Mentors. Louisville, KY: Sarabande, 2001. 15-23.

Miltner, Robert. “First Inclinations: The Poetry of Raymond Carver.” In Critical Insights: Raymond Carver. Ed. James Plath. Amenia, New York: Salem Press, 2013. 141-158.

---. “Imitating Carver in the Creative Writing Classroom.” In Carver Across the Curriculum: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching the Fiction and Poetry of Raymond Carver. Eds. Paul Benedict Grant and Katherine Ashley. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011. 153-166.

---. “In a Mature Light: The ‘Second Life’ Poems in Where Water Comes Together with Other Water and Ultramarine.” In New Paths to Raymond Carver: Critical Essays on His Life, Fiction, and Poetry. Eds. Sandra Lee Kleppe and Robert Miltner. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2008. 46-61. 

Mimpriss, Rob. “The Ladies and the Baggage: Raymond Carver’s Supressed Research and the Apologetic Short Story.” In Creative Writing Studies: Practice, Research and Pedagogy. Eds. Graeme Harper and Jeri Kroll. Tonawanda, NY: Multilingual Matters Ltd., 2008. 141-151.

Monti, Enrico. “From ‘Beginners’ to ‘What We Talk…’: Variations on a Carver Story.” In Not Far From Here: The Paris Symposium on Raymond Carver. Eds. Vasiliki Fachard and Robert Miltner. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2014. 37-49.

---. “Minimalism, Dirty Realism, and Raymond Carver.” In Critical Insights: Raymond Carver. Ed. James Plath. Amenia, New York: Salem Press, 2013. 56-69.

Naly, Laetitia. “Celebrating the Moment: Virility and the Writing of Time in ‘The Calm.’” In Not Far from Here: The Paris Symposium on Raymond Carver. Eds. Vasiliki Fachard and Robert Miltner. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2014. 109-117.

Nesset, Kirk. “Intimate Divisions: Raymond Carver and Alcoholism.” In Critical Insights: Raymond Carver. New York: Salem Press, 2013. 87-106.

Nordgren, Joe. “Raymond Carver.” In American Short-Story Writers since World War II. Ed. Patrick Meanor. Detroit, MI: Thomson Gale, 1993. 65-74.

Oates, Nathan. “‘A Stone in Place of a Heart’: The Influence of James Joyce on the Late Style of Raymond Carver.” In Joycean Legacies. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. 194-212.

Ollier, Nicole. “‘A Small, Good Thing’ : tous les signes sont bons.” In ‘Short Cuts’: Raymond Carver, Robert Altman (Lectures d’une Œuvre). Ed. Philippe Romanski. Paris, France: FeniXX, 1999. 131-148.

Orlofsky, Michael. “Historiografiction: the Fictionalization of History in the Short Story.” In The Postmodern Short Story: Forms and Issues. Ed. Farhat Iftekharrudin, et al. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003. 47-62.

O’Rourke, William. “Raymond Carver: Hemingway Without Money.” In Confessions of a Guilty Freelancer. Indiana University Press, 2012. 211-218.

Oxoby, Marc. “The Voluminous Impact of Television in the Fiction of Raymond Carver.” In New Paths to Raymond Carver: Critical Essays on His Life, Fiction, and Poetry. Eds. Sandra Lee Kleppe and Robert Miltner. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2008. 104-114.

Paquet-Deyris, Anne-Marie. “The Symphony of Chance : Altman in Carver Country.” In ‘Short Cuts’: Raymond Carver, Robert Altman (Lectures d’une Œuvre). Ed. Philippe Romanski. Paris, France: FeniXX, 1999. 201-212.

Pellegrin, Jean-Yves. “La Chute des graves ou la pesanteur carvérienne (et sa transposition dans le film ‘Short Cuts’ de Robert Altman.” In ‘Short Cuts’: Raymond Carver, Robert Altman (Lectures d’une Œuvre). Ed. Philippe Romanski. Paris, France: FeniXX, 1999. 213-232.

Pillière, Linda. “Alienation in Raymond Carver’s short stories.” In ‘Short Cuts’: Raymond Carver, Robert Altman (Lectures d’une Œuvre). Ed. Philippe Romanski. Paris, France: FeniXX, 1999. 183-200.

Plath, James. “On Raymond Carver.” In Critical Insights: Raymond Carver. Ed. James Plath. Amenia, New York: Salem Press, 2013. 3-18.

---. “The Carver Triangle: Lost in an Edward Hopper World.” In Critical Insights: Raymond Carver. Ed. James Plath. Amenia, New York: Salem Press, 2013. 70-86.

Rebein, Robert. “Minimalism and Its Discontents.” In Hicks, Tribes, and Dirty Realists: American Fiction after Postmodernism. University Press of Kentucky, 2001. 22-40.

Romanski, Philippe. “[Avant-] propos.” In ‘Short Cuts’: Raymond Carver, Robert Altman (Lectures d’une Œuvre). Ed. Philippe Romanski. Paris, France: FeniXX, 1999. 7-10.

---. “Raymond Carver: de l’entaille à l’aporie.” In ‘Short Cuts’: Raymond Carver, Robert Altman (Lectures d’une Œuvre). Ed. Philippe Romanski. Paris, France: FeniXX, 1999. 11-22.

Runyon, Randolph Paul. “Beginners’ Luck.” In Not Far From Here: The Paris Symposium on Raymond Carver. Eds. Vasiliki Fachard and Robert Miltner. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2014. 25-35.

---. “Cycling Fiction: On the Structure of Raymond Carver’s Three Major Story Collections.” In Critical Insights: Raymond Carver. Ed. James Plath. Amenia, New York: Salem Press, 2013. 159-171.

---. “‘It’s like, but not like, a dream:’ On Reading Ultramarine.” In New Paths to Raymond Carver: Critical Essays on His Life, Fiction, and Poetry. Eds. Sandra Lee Kleppe and Robert Miltner. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2008. 20-34.

Rushdie, Salman. “Raymond Carver.” In Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991. London: Granta Books, 1991. 340-342.

Sammarcelli, Françoise. “‘So Why Would I Want a Photograph of This Tragedy?’: The Inscription of the Eye in ‘What We Talk about When We Talk about Love.’” In Not Far From Here: The Paris Symposium on Raymond Carver. Eds. Vasiliki Fachard and Robert Miltner. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2014. 53-67.

---. “What’s Postmodern about Raymond Carver?” In Critical Insights: Raymond Carver. Ed. James Plath. Amenia, New York: Salem Press, 2013. 226-243.

Sawyer, David. “Yet Why Not Say What Happened?”: Boundaries of the Self in Raymond Carver’s Fiction and Robert Altman’s Short Cuts.” Blurred Boundaries: Critical Essays on American Literature, Language, and Culture. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1996. 195-219.

Scobie, Brian. “Carver Country.” Forked Tongues: Comparing Twentieth-Century British and American Literature. Eds. Ann Massa and Alsitair Stead. New York: Longman, 1995. 273-87.

Scofield, M. “Raymond Carver and the Power of Style.” In Teaching the Short Story. Ed. Ailsa Cox. UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 43-59.

Schweizer, Harold. “On Waiting and Hoping in Raymond Carver’s ‘A Small, Good Thing.’” In The Tapestry of Health, Illness and Disease. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi, 2009. 7-20.

Serceau, Michel. “Le jour où la terre tremblera.” In ‘Short Cuts’: Raymond Carver, Robert Altman (Lectures d’une Œuvre). Ed. Philippe Romanski. Paris, France: FeniXX, 1999. 165-182.

Shapiro, Johanna, and Audrey Shafer. “‘It Doesn’t Look Good’: Teaching End of Life Care through Carver’s Poetry.” In Carver Across the Curriculum: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching the Fiction and Poetry of Raymond Carver. Eds. Paul Benedict Grant and Katherine Ashley. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011. 49-64.

Shipe, Matthew. “Middle-Age Crazy: Men Behaving Badly in the Fiction of Raymond Carver and John Updike.” In Critical Insights: Raymond Carver. Ed. James Plath. Amenia, New York: Salem Press, 2013. 107-123.

Shute, Kathleen Westfall. “Finding the Words: The Struggle for Salvation in the Fiction of Raymond Carver.” In Twayne Companion to Contemporary Literature in English. New York, New York: Twayne, 2002.

Siebert, Hilary. “‘Outside History’: Lyrical Knowledge in the Discourse of the Short Story.” In Creative and Critical Approaches to the Short Story. Ed. Noel Harold Simmons, Jr. Edwin Mellen Press, 1997. 35-45.

---. “Raymond Carver.” In A Reader’s Companion to the Short Story in English. Ed. Erin Fallon, et al. CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001. 95-104. 

---. “Social Critique and Story Technique in the Fiction of Raymond Carver.” In The Tales We Tell: Perspectives on the Short Story. Ed. Barbara Lounsberry. CT: Greenwood Press, 1998. 21-28.

Slethaug, Gordon. “‘E Pluribus Unum:’ Raymond Carver’s fiction and Robert Altman’s ‘Short Cuts.’” In Adaptation Theory and Criticism: Postmodern Literature and Cinema in the USA. New York, NY: Bloomsbury, 2014. 55-72.

Stull, William L., and Maureen P. Carroll. “The Critical Reception of the Works of Raymond Carver.” In Critical Insights: Raymond Carver. Ed. James Plath. Amenia, New York: Salem Press, 2013. 39-55.

Sokoloff, Naomi B., and Nancy E. Berg. “Afterword.” In What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (and What It Means to Americans). Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2018. 227-228.

Sorby, Angela. “Teaching Carver’s Voices through Pacific Northwest Music.” In Carver Across the Curriculum: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching the Fiction and Poetry of Raymond Carver. Eds. Paul Benedict Grant and Katherine Ashley. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011. 21-35.

Toolan, Michael. “Discourse Style Makes Viewpoint: The Example of Carver’s Narrator in ‘Cathedral.’” In Twentieth-Century Fiction: From Text to Context. Eds. Peter Verdonk and Jean Jacques Weber. London: Routledge, 1995. 126-37.

Updike, John., and Carduff Christopher. “Raymond Carver.” In Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism. NY: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2012. 78-80.

Vander Weele, Michael. “Narrative Labour in Raymond Carver.” In Literature and the Renewal of the Public Sphere. New York, New York: St. Martin’s, 2000. 105-21.

Verhoeven, W. M. “What We Talk about When We Talk about Raymond Carver: Or, Much Ado about Minimalism.” Narrative Turns and Minor Genres in Postmodernism. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1995. 41-60.

Waxler, Robert P. “Teaching Male Violence and Vulnerability in Carver.” In Carver Across the Curriculum: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching the Fiction and Poetry of Raymond Carver. Eds. Paul Benedict Grant and Katherine Ashley. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011. 35-48.

Williams, Gary. “Raymond Carver.” In Updating the Literary West. Eds. Max Westbrook and Dan Flores. Fort Worth, TX: Western Literature Association, 1997. 268-73.

Wright, William W. “The Vocabulary of Affection: Attitudes toward Objects, Characters, and Other Writers in the Poetry of Raymond Carver.” In New Paths to Raymond Carver: Critical Essays on His Life, Fiction, and Poetry. Eds. Sandra Lee Kleppe and Robert Miltner. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2008. 35-45.

Wriglesworth, Chad. “Raymond Carver and Alcoholics Anonymous: A Narrative under the ‘Surface of Things.’” In New Paths to Raymond Carver: Critical Essays on His Life, Fiction, and Poetry. Eds. Sandra Lee Kleppe and Robert Miltner. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2008. 132-153.

---. “Raymond Carver and the Shaping Power of the Pacific Northwest.” In Critical Insights: Raymond Carver. Ed. James Plath. Amenia, New York: Salem Press, 2013. 19-35.

Interviews, Biography, and Memoir

Bassi, Gianluca and Barbara Pezzopani, eds. Raymond Carver and Tess Gallagher: Cattedrali. Paris: Leconte Editions, 2005.

Carver, James. “Excerpt from Raymond Carver Remembered by His Brother James.” The Raymond Carver Review  5/6 (Winter 2016 / Spring 2017).

---. Carver, James. Memories of Ray. San Francisco: Sore Dove, 2007.

---. Raymond Carver, Remembered by His Brother (Memoir). UK: Austin McCauley Publishing, 2017.

Carver, Maryann Burk.  What It Used to be Like: A Portrait of My Marriage to Raymond Carver (Memoir). New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2007.

Carver, Raymond and Bob Adelman. Carver Country: The World of Raymond Carver.  Photographs by Adelman. Introduction by Tess Gallagher.  New York: Scribner, 1990.

Gallagher, Tess. Soul Barnacles: Ten More Years with Ray. Greg Simon, ed. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.

Gentry, Marshall Bruce and William L. Stull. Conversations with Raymond Carver.  Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1990.

Halpert, Sam, ed.  Raymond Carver: An Oral Biography. Iowa City: The University of Iowa Press, 1995.

Halpert, Sam, ed.  . . . when we talk about Raymond Carver. Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith Publishing, 1991.

Kleppe, Sandra Lee. “The James Carver Interview.” The Raymond Carver Review 7 (Fall 2019/Spring 2020): 17-34.

Laing, Olivia. The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking. New York: Picador, 2013.

McCaffery, Larry, et al. “An Interview with Raymond Carver.” Mississippi Review 39.1/3 (2012): 228-247.

Miltner, Robert. “An Interview with Sophie Bocquet and Claire Fabre-Clark.” Raymond Carver Review 7 (Fall 2019/Spring 2020): 9-16.

Muldoon, David. “Carver’s Domestic Adaptations: An Interview with Riccardo Duranti, Carver’s Italian Translator.” The Raymond Carver Review 3 (Spring 2011): 6-16.

Sklenicka, Carol. Raymond Carver: A Writer’s Life. New York: Scribner, 2010.

Stull, William L. and Maureen P. Carroll, eds.  Remembering Ray: A Composite Biography. Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1993.

---.  Raymond Carver and Tess Gallagher: Tell It All. Paris: Leconte Editions, 2005.

Genre Studies

Aldridge, John W. Talents and Technicians: Literary Chic and the New Assembly-Line Fiction. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1992.

Boddy, Kasia. American Short Story since 1950.  Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010.

Hallett, Cynthia W. Minimalism and the Short Story: Raymond Carver, Amy Hempel, and Mary Robison. Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1999.

Hornby, Nick. Contemporary American Fiction. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991. 35-50.

Lohafer, Susan. Reading for Storyness: Preclosure Theory, Empirical Poetics and Culture in the Short Story. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.

Lohafer, Susan and Jo Ellyn Clarey. Short Story at a Crossroards. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989.

Mann, Susan Garland. The Short Story Cycle: A Genre Companion and Reference Guide. New York: Greenwood Press, 1989.

May, Charles E. The Short Story: The Reality of Artifice. New York: Twayne, 1995. 

McSweeney, Kerry.  The Realist Short Story of the Powerful Glimpse: Chekhov to Carver. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2007.

Nagel, James. The Contemporary Short Story Cycle: The Ethnic Resonance of Genre. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001.

Smith, Jennifer. The American Short Story Cycle. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018.

Archival Studies

Carol Sklenicka Collection of Raymond Carver Materials, William Charvat Collection of American Fiction, Rare Books and Manuscript Library, Ohio State University Libraries.

Gordon Lish Manuscripts, Lilly Library, Indiana University. 

Raymond Carver Papers, William Charvat Collection of American Fiction, Rare Books and Manuscript Library, Ohio State University Libraries.

Tess Gallagher Literary Archive, William Charvat Collection of American Fiction, Rare Books and Manuscript Library, Ohio State University Libraries.

William B. Ewert Publications and Papers, 1978-2002, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire Library.

William Kittredge Papers, Southwest Colleciton, Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University.

Bibliograhic Studies

Hemmingson, Michael. “Raymond Carver’s Rare, Limited, and Special Editions and Broadsides: A Critical Checklist.” Resources for American Literary Study 33 (2010): 205-18.

Lopez, Ken. Raymond Carver: A Collection. Catalog. LopezBooks. Ken Lopez Bookseller, 2007. Web.

Smiley, Kathryn, ed. “Collecting Raymond Carver and Checklist.” Firsts: The Book Collector’s Magazine 12:6 (June 2002).

Stull, William L. “Raymond Carver: A Bibliographical Checklist.” American Book Collector 8.1 (January 1987): 17-30.

“But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window – maybe rearrange all the furniture.”

| “Menudo,” Raymond Carver