Cynthia Harrison

On that note – I’m afraid to ask…

See you tonight! 🙂

Carver is fascinating because he’s from a working class background but made a literary life. The horror is that he wasted so many years drinking, which not only hurt his writing career but his family, and most of all, himself. He inherited the drinking from his father, so I’m not judging. And then other things conspired to make him an addict. Still, I admire that he persisted despite everything stacked against him and managed to quit drinking, write better, stand up to his pushy editor, find true love, and make peace with his children. He was able, finally, to live a better life than the one he was given. So inspiring.