![]() Luckily Carver did survive the publication of the collection in that form and went on to write more and more stories. ![]() I feel as if this is the most important decision I've ever been faced with. Now, I'm afraid, mortally afraid, I feel it, that if the book were to be published as it is in its present edited form, I may never write another story, that's how closely, God Forbid, some of those stories are to my sense of regaining my health and mental well-being… In a letter to Lish, Carver begs him not to publish the edited versions. This 1981 story was heavily edited and cut by Carver's editor Gordon Lish, and much of these changes were against Carver's will. What makes Raymond Carver's dark yet heartwarming story even more interesting is that there are two versions of it (and the other stories in the collection) floating around. In addition to giving us a few spare doses of the hearts-and-flowers variety of love, "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" tosses violence, hatred, depression, and alcoholism in our laps, all in an effort to suss out what love is, and why we bother. What they talk about though is anything but simple. The gist is simple enough: two married couples down some gin and dish about love over the course of an afternoon in late summer or early fall. ![]() ![]() What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Introduction ![]()
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