“On the morning of July 8, 1980, Raymond Carver wrote an impassioned letter to Gordon Lish, his friend and editor at Alfred A. Knopf, begging his forgiveness but insisting that Lish ’stop production’ of Carver’s forthcoming collection of stories, ‘What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.’ Carver had been up all night reviewing Lish’s severe editorial cuts—two stories had been slashed by nearly seventy per cent, many by almost half; many descriptions and digressions were gone; endings had been truncated or rewritten—and he was unnerved to the point of desperation.” The New Yorker has an incredibly in-depth package on one of my favorite writers, Raymond Carver, and his relationship with his longtime editor, Gordon Lish. The package focuses on the title story of Carver’s collection, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love,” which was in fact given its title by Lish. Carver’s original story, titled “Beginners,” along with his letters to Lish and Lish’s edits to the story that transformed it into the published work it became, are all available online. A fascinating look inside the editorial process in an admittedly extreme case.