event Author Event: Carol Sklenicka: Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life

Every aspiring writer is looking for his or her “voice,” but few have ever had their stylistic quirks soldered to their name as effectively as Raymond Carver did his. “Carver-esque” is now commonplace literary jargon for describing any minimalist (a derisive title originally placed on Carver by his critics), regardless of the writer's talent or depth. Carver’s writing oozed both, even though his sentences were rarely adorned by more than a single period or comma. Here, Carol Sklenicka comes to Borders to share her exhaustive 578-page biography, Raymond Carver: A Writer’s Life. The book goes beyond the short stories that today place Carver in the same breath with Anton Chekhov, and explores a volatile personal life that undoubtedly provided inspiration for his many indelible portrayals of ordinary folks.