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[meg_levins]

Last night I read a fascinating article in my New Yorker about Raymond Carver and his relationship with his long time friend and editor Gordon Lish.  Though I am unfamiliar with Carver's short stories, the article told me that he was instrumental to bringing back the short story to the mainstream audience, even garnering front page reviews on the

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In Defense of the Editor

[colibri29]

I am writing this Defense of the Editor -- not necessarily to defend Lish -- but because I think you have the wrong idea of an editor. I mean, the way it comes across here, it seems you have this worship of the WRITER, with the editor around to do a little clean-up