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72Essay: Food and Community in Raymond Carver's CATHEDRAL
by foamysquirrel
While discussing Raymond Carver has not yet become a cottage industry à la the study of Hemingway or Shakespeare, a considerable number of people have written an equally considerable number of reviews,... published 5 months ago
61Thesis: Carver Selling And Consuming Communities in 1980’s America (Part 1)
by foamysquirrel
First: one of the biggest problems in postmodernity, regardless of the paths taken until one definitively decides to stop trying and necessarily failing to define it, is to operate in the world with the... published 5 months ago
58Thesis: Carver Selling And Consuming Communities in 1980’s America (Part 3)
by foamysquirrel
As things fell apart for the working man, the disjunction between the promises of the American Dream and American reality for many threatened a certain suspension of disbelief that got people out of bed... published 5 months ago
67Thesis: Carver Selling And Consuming Communities in 1980’s America (Part 2)
by foamysquirrel
At the close of the last chapter, I referred to the “risk of communication” Lloyd manages to avoid by the obstruction in his ear and by Inez’s rush to make her next appointment. In between these... published 5 months ago
56A Very Short Story (#1)
by foamysquirrel
The crumpled bill went into the garbage disposal. She turned away. I poured myself another drink. I made my point. She stood looking at me. "I don’t understand. Why are you getting like this, hon? Is... published 5 months ago
59A Very Short Story (#3)
by foamysquirrel
Frank wrote that on his arm, then wondered what it meant; he had written it on a hunch, feeling the phrase was artistic. He decided he meant this: Tom got to be the noble-yet-cute sensitive type—the John,... published 5 months ago
61A Very Short Story (#2)
by foamysquirrel
Bill figured he wasn’t going bald. He was definitely aging and more strands definitely appeared on the brush these days, but his hair looked fuller than ever to him. The good haircut helped, of course, but... published 5 months ago
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