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...Gordon Lish’s drastic and fastidious work on Raymond Carver’s prose created the author’s stripped-down style....
...The author, furthermore, is the son of Gordon Lish, the legendary American author and editor who shaped Raymond Carver’s prose into its now indelible form; all this backstory is the kind of thing that might...
...Where his Knopf colleague Gordon Lish teased out Raymond Carver’s inner minimalist, Gottlieb saved Heller from his own gigantism, and saw better than the writer where his novels should go, what they could...
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