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Where I’m Calling From: New and Selected Stories, by Raymond Carver (Atlantic Monthly Press, 393 pp., $19.95)

In the record industry, they’re called compilation albums: best songs from early albums, many no longer available, plus a smattering of new ones, available nowhere else. When a singer changes labels, the new company generally releases one, to show off their catch and also to remind record buyers that the singer’s still around.

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Where I’m Calling From: New and Selected Stories, by Raymond Carver (Atlantic Monthly Press, 393 pp., $19.95)

In the record industry, they’re called compilation albums: best songs from early albums, many no longer available, plus a smattering of new ones, available nowhere else. When a singer changes labels, the new company generally releases one, to show off their catch and also to remind record buyers that the singer’s still around.