Raymond Carver Podcast
1) S3 E0: Announcement: Clatskanie Ray Carver Writing Fest May 3rd 2025
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.
2) S2: Announcement: Clatskanie Carver Fest May 17-18, 2024
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.
3) Festival Time: Billy Collins, TC Boyle, and more live in April
Coming April 25, 26, 27 in Port Angeles, join us for our ambitious new festival. Â Big writers, little city. Details on Eventbrite and the Raymond Carver Podcast website. Â Look for the Raymond Carver &...Show More
4) "So Much Water so Close to Home" with Carver Biographer, Carol Sklenicka
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 Muc...Show More
"So Much Water so Close to Home" with Carver Biographer, Carol Sklenicka
1:17:26 | Oct 18th, 2023
5) S2E4: "Carnations" with Joanadel Thyarks Hurst
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 productio...Show More
6) S2E3: a Special Episode from the Carver Archives: Columbus, Ohio
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 cons...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.7) S2 ANNOUNCEMENT: WRITING FESTIVAL DATES: PORT ANGELES 2024
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 lear...Show More
8) S2 Bonus: Cheever Episode Bonus Material
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...Show More
9) S2E2: "The Train" with Susan Cheever
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 ...Show More
10) S2: Bonus Carver Reading "Grief" and "Happiness"
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 othe...Show More