NEW YORK - Gordon Lish -- writer, teacher, editor -- is giving a reading as part of a cultural series at noon to a Wall Street crowd, which couldn't seem more incongruous: If the man believes his own colleagues find him "too much," what's...

The recent federal court decision in the Gordon Lish case shows, once again, how tar the courts have strayed from the purpose of the copyright laws. One of the more knowledgeable U.S. judges, Morris Lasker, ruled that Harper's MagaZine had infringed Lish's copyright...

Like a verdant interval at Yaddo or a sepulchral black-and-white author photo by Marion Ettlinger, a snazzy book cover by Chip Kidd has distinct cachet in Manhattan literary circles (what’s left of them, anyway). The difference is that Mr. Kidd has managed to maintain an...

Amy Hempel, short story writer, is spending a rainy morning at a Madison Avenue diner.She is 55 years old. Her flowing hair is silvery-white. Her speech is clear, but careful. She sometimes edits herself as she talks or advances her thoughts as if placing one...

In the essay below, Jones discusses the defining characteristics of Lish's fiction.

In the following interview, Lish discusses aspects of his career as an editor, teacher, and writer.

Birkerts is an American critic. In the following excerpt, he traces Lish's influence as an editor and fiction writer.