A haunting meditation on love, loss, companionship, and finding one's
way through the dark, Raymond Carver's What We Talk About When We Talk
About Love is one of the most important and influential short story
collections in contemporary literature. In his entry in the esteemed
Bookmarked series, acclaimed author Brian Evenson offers his personal
and literary take on this classic Carver collection.
Brian Evenson is the author of several books of fiction, most
recently the story collection A Collapse of Horses (Coffee House
Press, 2016) and the novella The Warren (Tor.com, 2016). His 2012
books Windeye and Immobility were both finalists for a Shirley
Jackson Award. His novel Last Days won the American Library
Association's award for Best Horror Novel of 2009. His novel The Open
Curtain was a finalist for an Edgar Award and an International Horror
Guild Award. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches in the Critical Studies
Program at CalArts.