
Gordon Lish
Author · 18 books
Gordon Jay Lish is an American writer. As a literary editor, he championed many American authors, particularly Raymond Carver, Barry Hannah, Amy Hempel, and Richard Ford.
Books

Zimzum
1993

Egress
New openings in literary art
2018

White Plains
Pieces & Witherlings
2018

Mourner at the Door
1988

What I Know So Far
1983

Goings
In Thirteen Sittings
2014

Death and So Forth
Stories
2021

Self-Imitation of Myself
1997

Peru
1986

Dear Mr. Capote
1983

To Have Written a Book
2024

Collected Fictions
2010

All our secrets are the same
New fiction from Esquire
1976

Arcade or How to Write a Novel
1998

Epigraph
1996

Egress
New openings in literary art (2)
2019

Extravaganza
A Joke Book
1989

The Selected Stories
1996