Writing Style and Patterns
Raymond Carver’s main writing style which forces readers to conceptualize missing details
What is minimalism?
Where Raymond Carver attended High School
What is Yakima High School?
The town where Raymond Carver primarily grew up
What is Yakima, Washington?
The woman who supported Carver’s writing journey as a cocktail waitress, a restaurant hostess, an encyclopedia saleswoman, and a teacher.
Who is Mary-Ann Burker?
Raymond Carver’s first published story (in 1960)
What is The Furious Seasons?
Raymond Carver's other part of writing style which describes the more mundane aspects of life
What is Dirty Realism?
The first college Raymond Carver attended
What is Chico State College?
Raymond Carver's pass time that he enjoyed at a young age
What is reading?
The name of Carver's second wife
Who is Tess Gallagher?
Authors who served as an Influence on Carver's writing
Who is Hemingway, Frost, and Beckett?
Two important symbols that reoccur in Raymond Carver's writing
The College that Carver attended where he received his Bachelor of Arts
What is Humboldt State College?
Hobbies that Carver enjoyed doing with family and friends
What are hunting and fishing?
What is lung cancer?
The woman who fought to republish the stories in What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, in the original (unedited) ways they were written by Carver.
Who is Tess Gallagher?
What is poetry?
The class Carver took in college that made him interested in a writing career
What is a creative writing course?
Carver's family's class reflected on his work later in life
What is Lower middle-class?
The names of Carver's 2 children
Who are Christi and Vance?
A key work of Carver's that he published in 1981
What is What We Talk About When We Talk About Love?
The name of the characters Carver included in many of his stories, often those who perform manual labor (similar to his father).
What are blue-collared characters?
Who is John Gardner
Carver's place of birth
What is Clatskanie, Oregon?
A main issue that Raymond Carver faced in his lifetime that he often included in his works.
What is alcoholism?
The person involved in the controversy regarding his lasting literary reputation
Who is Gordon Lish (Carver's editor)?