Gordon Lish’s heavy editing of Raymond Carver’s stories has become a cause célèbre since I first described it in It Wasn’t Pretty, Folks, But Didn’t We Have Fun? Esquire in the Sixties (1995). Carver was not the only writer Lish tried to reinvent in his drive to bring new fiction to the magazine. – Carol Polsgrove, January 2012 

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