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...Gordon Lish’s drastic and fastidious work on Raymond Carver’s prose created the author’s stripped-down style....
...He was enticed, too, by the incredibly ornate wooden chimneypiece and cornicing, which recalls the delicately drawn Chippendale-style of master carver Thomas Johnson, stripped back by the property’s owner...
...At the same time, his writing doesn’t invite you to spend too much time admiring its stern rejection of ornament, as Beckett or Hemingway or Raymond Carver sometimes do....
...Gallery display is one route, but not that taken by US limewood carver David Esterly....
...And Carver herself, before running Art Dubai, was also a journalist....
...But one day, his partner, Marietta von Bernuth, showed him Christopher Wren’s St James’s Church in Piccadilly....
...Vann dramatises it by way of a stock American situation, the hunting trip gone wrong, and advances his plot from the initial act of wrongness in a way that owes something to Raymond Carver’s story “So Much...
...In Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike, a delightful Christopher Durang work that has just moved to Broadway, Chekhov serves as inspiration for a contemporary study....
...He builds tension in a few deft paragraphs and while his pared down prose style recalls Raymond Carver, the emotional complexities mapped out here beneath the oppressively wide fenland sky also bring to...
...Even Christopher Buckley’s review of Closing Time, which Heller loved, is described as “perceptive, if mixed”....
...A perfect illustration is the “Monumentino” containing the only known surviving work of the “divine” 17th-century Italian micro-miniature wood-carver Ottaviano Jannella, assembled in a wood and glass case...
...The company’s signature line is a series of shells dipped in Italian silver but it also sells smart encrusted items that, Christopher Gow says, can bring “a touch of the grotto or shell room inside one’s...
...Richard Ford’s selection includes classic stories by authors including Eudora Welty and Raymond Carver, but also incorporates newer voices....
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