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Lungfish says:
I think Carver would have enjoyed this blog:http://www.wibsite.com/wiblog/dull/
Opening a cupboard door (dull, October 17)
There was a cupboard in the corner of the room. I reached out my hand and gripped the door handle. I pulled the door towards me, thereby opening the cupboard.
Standing in the middle of the room (dull, April 21)
I was standing at a central point in the room. The walls were all at approximately the same distance from me. I continued to stand there for a few moments.
Though nothing is said about what is felt, we see the only thing that really matters, which is what happened.
Oh yeah, and every girl I know who was a fan of bukowski hated herself and thought alcoholism is rad. As time passes I become more annoyed with people who want to be heavy smokers and drinkers so they can better fit the part of being a writer. Bukowski is the archetypal drinking and smoking, womanizing ball of insecurities writer, prone to bursts of irrational behavior that he can write about in such ways that implies immense depth, and to me he represents the person people most emulate in a quest to become a writer.
Post Office IS one of my favorite books, but if a thousand monkeys can write shakespear given enough time, Bukowski would have HAD to write something awesome with all the typing he did. According to the biography (I could only read half of it) he was writing hundreds of pages a day.
By contrast, Carver wrote like a surgeon, paring the language down to maximum precision
posted May 4
LiteraryMary says:
i likey the carver very much. am smack in the middle of 'Where I'm Calling From' i believe is the title although i would have to admit to being also very much a bukowski fan.
jen from LM
posted May 1
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johnjohndoe says:
hello fellow carver-people. i love his short stories, but my favorite carver book is his poetry collection "all of us."
posted May 28