What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

the long version

The short story ‘‘What We Talk About When We Talk About Love,’’ by Raymond Carver is the title story in his first volume of short fiction by a major publisher. Upon publication, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love received immediate and glowing critical acclaim, earning front page coverage in the New York Times Book Review as well as a favorable review in the New York Review of Books. Adam Meyer explains that ‘‘this was to be the volume that would firmly establish Carver as an important w