Minimalism, Raymond Carver & What we Talk About When We Talk About Realists

Raymond Carver collections are all worth-it reads but especially:
What we Talk About When we Talk about Love
Cathedral and Will You Please be Quiet, Please?

http://www.carversite.com/
(a good little fansite and includes a story from Where I'm Calling from. Very short and very Carver at his minimalistic-heights.)
http://www.whitman.edu/english/carver/carver.cgi
http://www.iwu.edu/~jplath/carver.html (excellent interviews here--highly recommend you check them out.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oapV2DzeYBw
Cathedral:
http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/instruct/cinichol/GovSchool/Cathedral2.htm


LATE FRAGMENT
And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.