A list of writers mentioned in Gordon Lish’s Winter 2015 (No. 215) Paris Review interview
Jean Baudrillard
Harold Bloom
Harold Brodkey
William F. Buckley
William S. Burroughs
Raymond Carver
Neal Cassady
Cormac McCarthy
Don DeLillo
Jacques Derrida
Denis Donoghue
Tess Gallagher
Leonard Gardner
Jack Gilbert
Allen Ginsberg
Barry Hannah
Giles Harvey
Victor Herman
Noy Holland
John Clellon Holmes
Jack Kerouac
Ken Kesey
Stephen King
Romulus Linney
Sam Lipsyte
Atticus Lish
Gary Lutz
Norman Mailer
Ben Marcus
Patty Marx
Cynthia Ozick
Grace Paley
James Purdy
J.D. Salinger
Christine Schutt
Jason Schwartz
Allan Temko
Joy Williams
Tom Wolfe
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I was glad to see Gordon Lish hasn’t changed much since I met him in 1986 at a writer’s conference in Pittsburgh. We spent many an afternoon in a bar with a few other attendees of the conference and Lish was completely forthcoming about his dislike of E.L. Doctrow’s work–the honoree of the conference. I had just read Dear Mr. Caputo and was mermerized by Lish–thought he was a much better writer than Doctrow. He’s an original.Sandra Adelmund (formerly Sandra Witt).
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