Research Guides: Carver, Raymond: Multimedia

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The Life of Raymond Carver documentary with Rare Interview (1989)
Hailed as the American Chekhov and short-listed for a Pulitzer Prize at the time of his death, only ten years earlier Raymond Carver had been completely down and out. In this vintage program filmed just a year after he died, Carver’s second wife, Tess Gallagher, and writers Jay McInerney and Richard Ford, his close friends, explore Carver’s artistic legacy: his stories and poems about the other side of the American Dream. In addition, excerpts from two of Carver’s most famous stories are dramatized.
Raymond Carver: Cathedral
Robert, a blind man and now a widower, has come to visit his friend and her husband. Prompted by a television show, the apprehensive husband asks Robert if he really knows what a cathedral is: his answer is a lesson in how to truly see. This dramatization of Raymond Carver’s classic short story “Cathedral” presents a minimalist exploration of loneliness, vision, and personal spirituality. An interview follows with Carver’s widow, Tess Gallagher, whose poem “The Hands of the Blindman” is excerpted in the production. (56 minutes)
Raymond Carver Reads "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love"
The only known recording of Raymond Carver reading his staggering, famous work WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT LOVE. It was recorded in Palo Alto in 1983 for a program "Tell Me a Story."

Part 2 -Carver's "Cathedral"-- a story that levitates in Masterpieces of short fiction by Michael Krasny.
Call Number: Audio Visual PN3373.K73 2008
ISBN: 9781598034400
Publication Date: 2008
The form of the genre, as well as the various ways in which it has evolved, is highlighted along the way with a display of the essential nuts and bolts of storytelling-- plot, character, setting, style, point of view, and theme. A mix of critical approaches will also be brought in to enhance analysis and interpretation and to explore some of the ways we judge and evaluate short fiction.