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Sherman Alexie Reads Raymond Carver

The New Yorker: Fiction

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How to Write Fiction Like a Writer

When i first read Raymond carver, i was a full blown alcoholic. I mean, black outs and waking up naked on top of hills. So i know o these guys, and i know the women too. That's one of the things the story does. It doesn't romanticize men or women. These are broken people in love with broken people. And no one's to blame, and everybody's to blame. They're all aspiring to be better. The ambition. Yes, yes. But you have to make the choice. You im i'm a twelfth stepper.I'm been recovering for a long time. This is not about me being an alcoholic; this is about

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