Article: TREATING WRITING LIKE LIFE AND DEATH GORDON LISH - A MAN OF ABSOLUTES - LEAVES HIS STUDENTS MESMERIZED

First of two articles. When you talk to Gordon Lish on the phone from his editorial office at Alfred A. Knopf, he first gives the standard answer: "I routinely do not talk about my work in print." When you inquire what the tuition is for his intensive fiction-writing workshops, he concedes only that the fee is "enormous . . . I can't discuss it, but it's very high." When you ask if his novels and short stories are autobiographical, he tells you they're all the truth, everything is true, and it's all made up. And when you look for Lish on Esquire's 1987 intergalactic map of "Who's Who in the Literary Universe" (taken more seriously by insiders than most will admit), he turns up ...

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