raymond carver with a short story writer -- was a short story writer.these brilliant and truthful stories about america. .e died in 1988 yet it's more choice and difficult life. i'll collect. wrote about it quite a bit. he got sober and was productive in the last years of his life. stories, hist is fairness of the language is haunting. it seems very ordinary. there's something strange strange about it. what he evokes is -- in this. that he was writing -- he is projecting a loneliness and isolation of his characters. they are not connected to anything. there are no institutions. politics does not exist. form countries do not exist. apropos ofness is the way americans live today. most of the characters live alone. but this is a small item that i read -- >> this is a small item , why was the chapter about andrew breitbart missing? >> i ran out of gas. i was racing to make my deadline . i was sick. it was hard to finish this book. i found this book difficult to complete. i could not get breitbart done. i knew he had to be in there. if i'm writing about the