What is it about this tweet that enraged so many literary men on Twitter? Is it that I dared to mention three masters of the American short story? Do they hate bars with working-class clientele? Or is it that the angry literary men prefer Dylan’s early work? Perhaps I should’ve highlighted Highway 61 Revisited and that would’ve been enough to avoid the Twitter histrionics. Maybe I shouldn’t have called Raymond Carver “Ray,” but that’s what I’ve always called the greatest American short story writer of all time. Whenever I tell someone to read his work, I always say, “Hey, what you should do, if you want to get hip to the American literary tradition, is read the short stories of my guy Ray Carver.”
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