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Raymond CarverRaymond Carver was the most beloved American short-story writer of the late twentieth century. Two decades after his death, this definitive biography...Read More
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San Francisco Chronicle, March 6, 2010
..."Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary," by Bertrand M. Patenaude; "Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life," by Carol Sklenicka; "Peruvian Rebel: The World of Magda Portal, With a Selection of Her Poems," by Kathleen Weaver CREATIVE NONFICTION "Farm City: The...
San Jose Mercury News, March 5, 2010
...Magda Portal, 'Peruvian Rebel' (Pennsylvania State University Press); Bertrand M. Patenaude's 'Trotsky: Downfall of Revolutionary' (Harper) and Carol Sklenicka's 'Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life' (Scribner). They are up against Alva Noe's...
New York Times, March 5, 2010
...including Nicholson Baker’s very winning novel “The Anthologist,” and Hilary Mantel’s “Wolf Hall.” I also read Carol Sklenicka’s . It’s a brutal tale...
Bohemian, February 6, 2010
...in the splotchy stain. Sitting in her home studio overlooking the Pacific Ocean on the outskirts of Jenner, Carol Sklenicka says that mint copies of this book, Raymond Carver's first published work, Near Klamath, are worth several thousand dollars. This...
Irish Times, January 16, 2010
...BIOGRAPHY: GERALD DAWE reviews Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life by Carol Sklenicka, Scribner, 578pp, $35 IN ONE of the most revealing asides in this copious portrait of the hugely talented American short story writer, poet and essayist Raymond Carver,...
Welland Tribune, January 8, 2010
...more than a million women diagnosed each year with breast cancer. Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life By Carol Sklenicka Carver was one of the most respected American short story writers of the late 20th century. Two decades after his death, this definitive...
Lakeland Ledger, January 2, 2010
...all of it guided by players wedded to economic orthodoxy. "Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life," by Carol Sklenicka, Scribner, $35. Ten years in the making, this prodigiously researched and meticulous biography sympathetically and adroitly integrates its...
Christian Science Monitor, December 14, 2009
...talents. Biographers of iconic authors have long considered their creative gifts alongside a destructiveness in their natures, and Carol Sklenicka’s new biography, , is another offering in that vein. So don’t look to it for happy insights into his...
Chicago Tribune, December 13, 2009
...week, featuring reviews from Chicago Tribune and around the Web including 'Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life' by Carol Sklenicka, 'City of Gold: Dubai and the Dream of Capitalism' by Jim Krane, 'When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American...
Poten & Partners, December 13, 2009
...busts, all of it guided by players wedded to economic orthodoxy. RAYMOND CARVER A Writer's Life. By Carol Sklenicka. Scribner, $35. Ten years in the making, this prodigiously researched and meticulous biography sympathetically and adroitly integrates its...
Suite101.com, December 4, 2009
...portraying them with devastating bleakness. The cascade mill in Yakima where Carver's father worked was, according to Carol Sklenicka in her biography of Carver's Life, what Carver referred to a "his entire frame of reference as a kid." David Guterson...
NPR, November 27, 2009
...Raymond Carver: Writer's LifeBy Carol Sklenicka Hardcover, 592 pages Scribner List price: $35text sizeNovember 27, 2009 Confession. The first time I read a Raymond Carver story, I didn’t get it. It was so spare...
London Review of Books, November 24, 2009
...masterful reworking of the ‘evil-car motif’. Really? I don’t mean to pick on King. But King, reviewing Carol Sklenicka’s new biography of Carver, does pick on Lish, who is singled out for his ‘heavy hand’, for ‘the strangely elitist view he...
bookforum.com, January 7, 2010
...John Wrighton. Matthew Price reviews Collected Stories by Raymond Carver and Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life by Carol Sklenicka. An interview with Elif Batuman , author of The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them . Arthur...
bookforum.com, January 7, 2010
...John Wrighton. Matthew Price reviews Collected Stories by Raymond Carver and Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life by Carol Sklenicka. An interview with Elif Batuman , author of The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them . Arthur...
ZoesMom, December 27, 2009
...t usually finish it so this year that is my goal. Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life -- Carol Sklenicka I love Raymond Carver. I know this book just came out, but it immediately landed at the top of my TBR list. Never Let Me Go -- Kazou Ishiguro...
Kanlaon, December 23, 2009
...about the soldiers (average age 19) posted to Baghdad at the height of the surge, The Good Soldiers Carol Sklenicka’s “prodigiously researched” biography, Raymond Carver: A Writer’s Life 2. After reading Virginia DeJohn Anderson’s...
The Rumpus.net, November 24, 2009
...Times Sunday Book Review , Stephen King has written a review of Raymond Carver: A Writer’s Life by Carol Sklenicka. King begins with a summation of Carver’s semi-amazing alcoholism and then moves on to a dissection of Carver’s relationship with...
style over substance, November 22, 2009
...and teachers would miscategorize as “minimalism” or “dirty realism.” - Stephen King in the NYT on the new Carol Sklenicka bio of Carver (and the new Library of America Collected Stories of Carver...
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed, November 20, 2009
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A Commonplace Blog, October 7, 2009
...The galleys for Carol Sklenicka’s forthcoming biography of Raymond Carver arrived yesterday. (Full disclosure: Carol and I are old friends.) After scouring the book for references to myself, I sat down to the problem that trips up anyone who takes...
