What Lanier calls this type of redistribution: “The humanistic information economy.”
How disappointed is this reviewer in Lanier: Enough to end our relationship, despite forfeiture of any future “nanopayments.”
When we stopped saying we were going to move out of the city, we had: nothing to talk about at parties, nothing to talk about on the Q/N/R trains, nothing to talk about to my aunt, her mom, the pizza guy, over decent but insufferabl…
“The Star-Spangled Banner,” by contrast, is bombastic anacreontic macaronic pseudomartial beer hall music.
wow
By contrast, the techniques that Lish imposed on his own fiction, and that he advocated for decades in the notorious non-MFA writing workshops he ran after leaving Knopf (workshops in which he mentored, among others, Amy Hempel, Christine Schutt, and Diane Williams), are considerably simpler to art…
Since the originals of Carver’s stories are often two or three times longer than the canonical versions, what Lish did to them (and gloated about doing to them) requires another verb. Not “edit” but “traduce,” “violate,” “molest.”
