{"id":2608,"date":"2025-04-01T09:48:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T13:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/?p=2608"},"modified":"2025-04-01T09:48:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T13:48:41","slug":"gordon-lish-by-julian-martinez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/?p=2608","title":{"rendered":"Gordon Lish by Juli\u00e1n Martinez"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I held Raymond Carver at gunpoint. I didn\u2019t know he\u2019d be sitting in the kitchen when I busted into the apartment of my old creative writing professor, Gordon Lish. Carver gave me the face he makes on the back of <em>What We Talk About When We Talk About Love<\/em>: an eyebrow-raised smirk that said, \u201cgive me your best shot.\u201d The 9mm in my sweaty hands grew heavier as he stared me down, holding a chicken wing. He wore a greasy wifebeater. This seemed like the place where guys called them wifebeaters. \u201cWhere\u2019s Lish?\u201d I said. I slammed the chamber of the gun back. Carver motioned with his wing. I swung around and there was Lish, also in a wifebeater, also holding a wing. He offered me a seat. \u201cSeems like you\u2019re the real deal, after all,\u201d he chuckled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>__________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Juli\u00e1n Martinez loves Chicago so much, he\u2019s marrying her.<span class=\"clearfix\"><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>I held Raymond Carver at gunpoint. I didn\u2019t know he\u2019d be sitting in the kitchen when I busted into the apartment of my old creative <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/?p=2608\" title=\"Gordon Lish by Juli\u00e1n Martinez\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2608"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2617,"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608\/revisions\/2617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}