Where I'm Calling From and Cathedral

By Raymond Carver. A marvelous writer. His stories are remarkable. I especially love "Vitamins," which scares the living crap out of me and "A Small, Good Thing." "Cathedral" is terrific, more like a prayer than any short story I've read, but perhaps I haven't read enough. "Where I'm Calling From" is a great deal of fun. That's what I'm feeling, reading all these books. There are many remarkable lines in these stories, but reading a master like Carver makes it easy to remember them. When, in "A Small, Good Thing," he describes how the boy is hit by the car, he simply says that the boy stepped off the curb. So simple. There are so many things in that story that are just perfect.