{"id":2387,"date":"2007-12-24T15:04:25","date_gmt":"2007-12-24T20:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=2387"},"modified":"2007-12-24T15:04:25","modified_gmt":"2007-12-24T20:04:25","slug":"craig-list-is-not-killing-newspapers-lish-a-better-carver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/craig-list-is-not-killing-newspapers-lish-a-better-carver\/","title":{"rendered":"Craig: list is not killing newspapers; Lish, a better Carver?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/action\/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&#038;articleId=9053838\">an interview in ComputerWorld<\/a>, Craig Newmark, founder of Craig&#8217;s List, tells about his business, its successes and why it&#8217;s not what is killing newspapers.<\/p>\n<p>At the New Yorker, correspondence between editor Gordon Lish and short story writer Raymond Carver shows something of their complex artistic relationship over time. And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/2007\/12\/24\/071224on_onlineonly_carver\">a version of &#8220;Beginners&#8221; (Carver) or &#8220;What we talk about when we talk about love&#8221; (Lish&#8217;s edit) shows what Lish did with or to Carver.<\/a> My take isn&#8217;t one that late Carver lovers will like: <em>Lish made the better story by far.<\/em> (Note: I did the selection,<a href=\"https:\/\/college.hmco.com\/english\/lauter\/heath\/4e\/students\/author_pages\/contemporary\/carver_ra.html\"> headnote<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/college.hmco.com\/english\/heath\/syllabuild\/iguide\/carver.html\">teacher&#8217;s guide for the Health Anthology of American Literature section on Raymond Carver.<\/a>  There I chose <em>&#8220;A Small Good Thing&#8221;<\/em> the un-Lished version of <em>&#8220;The Bath<\/em>&#8221; I like both versions, but I prefer the longer one in this case.).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview in ComputerWorld, Craig Newmark, founder of Craig&#8217;s List, tells about his business, its successes and why it&#8217;s not what is killing newspapers. At the New Yorker, correspondence between editor Gordon Lish and short story writer Raymond Carver shows something of their complex artistic relationship over time. And a version of &#8220;Beginners&#8221; (Carver) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}