Rotten Reviews: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver

[I confess that in more than thirty years of trying to appreciate his work, the appeal of Raymond Carver is completely lost on me.]

“There is nothing here to appease a reader’s basic literary needs.” 

Excerpted from: Barnard, Andre, and Bill Henderson, eds. Pushcart’s Complete Rotten Reviews and Rejections. Wainscott, NY: Pushcart Press, 1998.