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Author: Tim Baker and Marc Heberden

Posted on February 4, 1994March 28, 2017

Paris Conversation with Raymond Carver

The last public appearance Raymond Carver made in Paris was on one of those mythic, all too rare sweltering spring nights.  He was reading at Odile Hellier’s Village Voice bookstore, along with Richard Ford and Jonathan Rabin, with Edmund White on hand to introduce them all. Continue reading “Paris Conversation with Raymond Carver”

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