What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Hummingbird Suppose I say summer, write the word “hummingbird,” put it in an envelope, take it down the hill to the box. When you open my letter you will recall those days and how much, just how much, I love you. Capturing bliss in one word, crystallising tenderness and love at once into a precious gift and......more

The world is a hierarchical structure… It is a pyramid… The serfs never had it good. But I guess even the knights were vassals to someone. Isn’t that the way it worked? But then everyone is always a vassal to someone. Little men have their own little vices: drunkenness, unfaithfulness, spitefulness… A......more

4.5 stars “This is awful. I don’t know what’s going to happen to me or to anyone else in the world.” I’m not so sure that now was a ‘good’ time for me to read these joyless, if not downright disturbing, stories. To be honest, I wasn’t in the right frame of mind to wallow in such darkness. I may have......more

This collection part of the 1980s Vintage Contemporaries series includes seventeen vintage Raymond Carver, including Viewfinder - An abandoned husband chucks stone as he is photographed up on his roof by a door-to-door salesman/photographer who had hooks instead of hands; A Serous Talk - An ex-husba......more