But Raymond Carver himself was not fond of that term ... It applies to things like the music of John Cage and it’s used in art but it hasn’t been a handy term in literature, I don’t think.

Folk music influences the cadence of “Regret,” for example, as it opens before jumping into a fire pit of rage; “Prince Johnny” relies on a military march and pop melodies, which St ...

Ray didn’t like country music. I didn’t like it. We didn’t listen to it.” To his fans and those who study his work, Raymond Carver is an almost mythical figure — the tortured literary ...

A two-part dramatization of an Oregon-bred author’s opus, an evening of Raymond Carver stories and a reprise of a staged Jane Austen novel will be mounted in the 2015-16 mainstage season of Book ...