What We Talk About When We Talk About Raymond Carver

"There's a lesson here, although it's not about which version of Carver is the version. Literature is a living art, an expression of a writer's emotional state, his or her frame of mind, at the moment the work is done. There is no inevitable, final form to a piece of writing, just the place where the author stopped."

David Ulin in the Los Angeles Times weighs in on the dispute between Raymond Carver's widow and his former editor.