S3 E0: Announcement: Clatskanie Ray Carver Writing Fest May 3rd 2025
Raymond Carver Podcast
This year, Clatskanie's Raymond Carver Writing Festival will be held Saturday, May 3rd 2025. We hope to see you there! This all day event is mostly free.
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S2: Announcement: Clatskanie Carver Fest May 17-18, 2024
Raymond Carver Podcast
Event Announcement: Kim Stafford, Robert Michael Pyle, Chad Wriglesworth from the Raymond Carver Review, and more at a free festival in Clatskanie, Oregon May 17th and 18th 2024.
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Festival Time: Billy Collins, TC Boyle, and more live in April
Raymond Carver Podcast
Coming April 25, 26, 27 in Port Angeles, join us for our ambitious new festival. Big writers, little city. Details on Eventbrite and the Raymond Carver Podcast website. Look for the Raymond Carver & Tess Gallagher Creative Writing Festival 2024.
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S2E5: "So Much Water so Close to Home" with Carver Biographer, Carol Sklenicka
Raymond Carver Podcast
Carol Sklenicka is the author of the biography Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life. In this episode we discuss her exhaustive biography of Carver before diving into one of his most beloved stories "So Much Water so Close to Home".
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S2E4: "Carnations" with Joanadel Thyarks Hurst
Raymond Carver Podcast
In this episode we explore a very rare piece of work by Raymond Carver, his one-act play "Carnations". Our special guest was a fellow student, friend, and actor involved with the writing and production of this "forgotten" play in Arcata, California in 1962.
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S2E3: a Special Episode from the Carver Archives: Columbus, Ohio
Raymond Carver Podcast
In this special episode we explore Carver's documents, notebooks, and original manuscript drafts in his official archives at the Ohio State University's Thompson Library in Columbus. Join me as I consider both microsopic and big picture questions regarding Carver's writing, life, drafting, editing habits, and unpublished work.
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S2 ANNOUNCEMENT: WRITING FESTIVAL DATES: PORT ANGELES 2024
Raymond Carver Podcast
We are very excited to publish details about the first annual Raymond Carver and Tess Gallagher Creative Writing Festival to be held in Port Angeles, Washington: April 25-27, 2024. Listen here to learn more.
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S2 Bonus: Cheever Episode Bonus Material
Raymond Carver Podcast
Here you will find background information and anecdotes related to Season 2 Episode 2 with Susan Cheever, including: the ghost of John Cheever, a Carver interview about Cheever, a relevant bible verse explained, and more.
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S2E2: "The Train" with Susan Cheever
Raymond Carver Podcast
In this episode I interview Guggenheim Fellow and Pulitzer Prize winning writer, Susan Cheever. We begin by discussing what might be Raymond Carver's most unusual story, "The Train". "The Train" is a sequel to "The Five-Forty-Eight", a beloved short story by her father, John Cheever. We met at the OSU archives in Columbus, Ohio (where Carver’s papers are kept) to discuss "The Train", Raymond Carver and John Cheever's friendship, and Susan Cheever’s many fine books of fiction and nonfiction.
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S2 Bonus: Carver Reading "Grief" and "Happiness"
Raymond Carver Podcast
Archival recordings of Raymond Carver reading his poems "Grief" and "Happiness" at Peninsula College in 1987. Bonus material for Season Two Episdoe One with Billy Collins, who discusses these and other poems by Carver.
info_outlineFor the premiere episode of the Raymond Carver Podcast, we interview the writer, Tess Gallagher, Raymond Carver's widow. We discuss parallel stories they wrote about an overnight guest: Carver's "Cathedral" and Gallagher's "Rain Flooding Your Campfire". Gallagher also talks about her life with Carver and her work as his literary executor.