Sad Old Literary Man Angry About His Decline (and Jonathan Franzen)
Michelle Dean · 06/20/14 05:00PM![](http://d20hvt89h2l7r8.cloudfront.net/776896451641142956/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800.jpg)
Gordon Lish, for those of you who do not follow literary gossip, was a famous editor in the 1970s and 1980s. Nowadays, he is primarily remembered as Raymond Carver's editor, whose short stories he shaved down to knife-edge minimalism. For no apparent reason at all, Newsweek just profiled Lish. He's a bit of a hater, it turns out.