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GORDON LISH Gordon Lish is perhaps best known for his role as editor for the late Raymond Carver. For an instructive example of the importance of good editing, check out The New Yorker online, which in December 2007 featured an early draft of Carver’s story ‘Beginners’ with all of Lish’s corrections and deletions intact. You can see exactly how Lish transformed a rambling, shapeless mess of a tale into a jewel of minimalist storytelling.
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CHUCK KLOSTERMAN Chuck Klosterman, the famed music journalist and pop-culture savant, has just released his debut fictional work, Downtown Owl. The book follows the lives of three characters—“a kid who hates rock music, a woman, and a very old man”—that all live in Owl, North Dakota. It is a small Midwestern town that starts out weird and just gets weirder. So how did one of America’s most distinguished cultural observers come to write a work of fiction? Klosterman explains.
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THURSTON MOORE’S No Wave Thurston Moore and Byron Coley recently released a book called No Wave, which is a photograph and text-driven document of the no wave scene that sprang out of the art-rock movement in New York City during the late seventies.
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