short story collections

I was listening to The New Yorker Fiction Podcast with Deborah Treisman, and in that episode, “Miriam Toews reads Raymond Carver.” There’s something spellbinding about Carver’s “Elephant,” a story about family: the guilt and responsibility that weighs the narrator as he cares for his mother, ex-wife, daughter, and brother. Listening to Toews read and discuss…