Gordon Lish
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Gordon Lish (born February 11, 1934 in Hewlett, New York) is an American author and editor.
He was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Lish served as fiction editor at Esquire magazine from 1969-76 where he became known as "Captain Fiction" for the number of authors whose careers he assisted. He is noted for encouraging Raymond Carver's minimalism.
He was fiction editor at Alfred A. Knopf from 1976-95. He founded and edited two literary magazines, GenesisWest and The Quarterly (1987).
Books
Lish is the author of nine novels and five collections of short stories
- The secret life of our times: new fiction from Esquire (1973) ISBN 038506215X
- What I Know So Far: Stories (?) ISBN 1568580800
- Dear Mr. Capote: A Novel (1983) ISBN 1568580797
- Extravaganza (1989) ISBN 0399134174
- Mourner at the Door: Stories (1989) ISBN 0140106804
- Extravaganza: A Joke Book (1990) ISBN 1877727059
- My Romance: A Novel(1991) ISBN 0393030016
- Zimzum (1993) ISBN 067942685X, ISBN 0517153297
- Epigraph: A Novel (1996) ISBN 1568580762
- The Quarterly (1996) ISBN 1896356036
- The Selected Stories of Gordon Lish (1996) ISBN 1895897742
- Peru: A Novel (1997) ISBN 1568580851
- Self-Imitation of Myself: Stories (1997) ISBN 1568580983
- Arcade: Or How to Write a Novel (1998) ISBN 1568581157
- Krupp's Lulu: Stories (2000) ISBN 1568581548
- Mysterium (2002) ISBN 1568582277
External links
- [Audio interviews with Gordon Lish] by Don Swaim
- [Lust for Lish, 1994]
- [Lashed by Lish, 1998]
- [Author, Author: One the Threshold, 2001]
- [Gordon Lish Listmania!]
- [Four Wals Eight Windows Catalog list]
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