``Wholly original in concept and often brilliant in execution, Extravaganza lives up to its title,'' asserted PW . A fictionalized version of the old vaudeville team Smith & Dale tells familiar, ...

A recent article in the New York Times about the desire of Tess Gallagher, Raymond Carver’s widow, to have Carver’s stories published in their original, unedited form, has ignited a controversy over ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Gordon Lish is a traveler from a country no longer extant, a country ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Gordon Lish is a traveller from a country that no longer exists, a ...

After you read a certain amount of interviews with John Lee and Vernon Chatman, the main writer/directors of PFFR, a certain pattern emerges. Or, not so much a pattern as a shadowy figure, or even ...

IT'S unlikely that Gordon Lish has read any Roddy Doyle – it’s hard to imagine the editor of Raymond Carver and Richard Ford settling down with The Commitments or Paddy Clarke, Ha Ha Ha. He would ...

Following this fall’s mini-brouhaha about Raymond Carver’s widow, Tess Gallagher, publishing early versions of Carver’s stories very different from the versions that went through Gordon Lish’s ...