Raymond Carver: Dreams Are What You Wake Up From

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Hailed as the American Chekhov and short-listed for a Pulitzer Prize at the time of his death, only ten years earlier Raymond Carver had been completely down and out. In this vintage program filmed just a year after he died, Carver's second wife, Tess Gallagher, and writers Jay McInerney and Richard Ford, his close friends, explore Carver's artistic legacy: his stories and poems about the other side of the American Dream. In addition, excerpts from two of Carver's most famous stories are dramatized. "No one since Steinbeck had written about these people," says McInerney, "the people whose dreams go belly-up
Loss of a Great American Writer (0:54)
"Bridle" (2:02)
Writing about America's Poor (2:14)
"Nobody Said Anything" (1:53)
Emigrating West (2:35)
Carver's Childhood (3:57)
Teenage Literary Talent (4:48)
Disappointed Dreams (3:38)
Struggling with Alcoholism (3:26)
"Why Don't You Dance?" (7:41)
Carver's Second Life (1:32)
"Feathers" (2:32)
Carver's Creative Process (2:16)
"Nobody Said Anything" (6:50)
Carver's Final Years (1:13)
"Errand" (2:49)
Carver's Death (3:26)
"Its Course" (4:14)
Credits: Raymond Carver: Dreams Are What You Wake Up From (0:53)

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