Raymond Carver’s widow is pissed. It seems too many readers come up to her and ask if Gordon Lish really wrote all her husband’s stories. So now she wants the originals published to prove that he could write all by himself. Whatever the merits of publishing new (old) versions of stories that had been published twice before, the whole affair reminds us of the infamous Captain Fiction and his role in creating a generation of American writers.

Now the NY Times's book blog, Papercuts, gives us much more on Lish. Don't forget to read the comments!

So which would you rather read, the unadulterated Carver or the Lish-ed up Carver? And does anyone have first-hand experience of the Lish seminars that ended a decade ago?