Failed Transcendance I always liked his titles,” said author Richard Ford. “They often seemed arbitrary and hooked onto the story; but as titles they seem to be quirky, and affecting, and new” (Ford qtd. in Halpert 172). Richard Ford was speaking of the rambling, memorable titles of Raymond Carver’s short stories, titles such as “WhatContinue reading “A Favorite Story: “Feathers” by Raymond Carver”