The people who inspired me to begin with were novelists Raymond Carver, Kurt Vonnegut.

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This is why I thought about Raymond Carver and his lost ode to work.

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Everything seems poised for a great finale, with the melancholic afterglow of a good Raymond Carver story.

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Auden, Wallace Stevens and Seamus Heaney and the novels of Raymond Carver, Robert Louis Stevenson and J.

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He's a fan of writers as diverse as Elmore Leonard and Raymond Carver.

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"In a 20-page section...there are explicit references to: The Magic Mountain, John Cheever, Death in Venice, Donald Barthelme, Raymond Carver, Hawthorne and Death of a Salesman, " he wrote.

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King is prolific, and not just in books: A recent profile noted that over the course of a few weeks this year he had a story published in the New Yorker, a review of a Raymond Carver biography in the New York Review of Books, an article in the horror magazine Fangoria and a poem in Playboy.

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The Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Maddness of Crowds by Charles MacKay should be mandatory reading for advisers and clients, said Randy Carver, senior vice president at Raymond James.

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