So Much Water So Close To Home


 INTERVIEWER

Do you get letters from people who've read your work?

CARVER

Letters, tapes, sometimes photographs. Somebody just sent me a cassette—songs that had been made out of some of the stories.


I wonder, if Raymond Carver was referring to the album by the Australian singer Paul Kelly. 

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