Raymond Carver

Drinking gin and talking about love (This is a draft of Carver’s story “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” without Gordon Lish’s edits.)

Fiction, from 1986: I knew it was a mistake to let my brother have the money.

Writer's mother is packed and ready to move. On her last night in her apartment she invites writer and Jill over for dinner. Writer says his mother …