Producers and editors: the hidden shadows

[Mamatas]

Primary Sources: Edited : The New Yorker

This link is interesting, in that by using bolds and strike-throughs, shows the differences between the Carver original and a Lish edit.

Of course, even this visual depiction might be a little misleading. This was shown to us in a course I was taking, and a number of students flipped out, saying stuff like "Lish started changing things for no reason! Even the name, the very third word!" as if Lish were cutting and adding as he read the first time (the way we read the story with its edits).