Articles by Frank Kovarik
February 4, 2010
It’s All Right to Cry: Restoring Raymond Carver’s Voice 10
The conventional shorthand is that Gordon Lish’s versions are bracing and bleak, Carver’s verbose and sentimental. But, in a just world, Beginners would be published as a stand-alone volume to replace the shell that Lish made of it.
July 29, 2009
Geometric Solids: Thomas Hardy’s Far From the Madding Crowd 6
I first heard about Thomas Hardy’s Far From the Madding Crowd about twenty years ago, when I was in seventh or eighth grade. My classmates and I were all reading Stephen King and Dean R. Koontz, and our English teacher attempted to guide our reading choices to higher-brow material.
“I think it’s great that you’re all [...]
