Notes I scribbled as I made dinner

I've just read Raymond Carver's short story Where I'm Calling From. It is the first thing by Carver I've read, and I quite enjoyed it. I have seen somewhere that Haruki Murakami is a huge Carver fan and I noticed some similarities between them. Their sentences are the same, the tools of a sharp realism which is short and to the point. Also similar is the is the location of a isolated retreat; in Where I'm calling From, it is a clinic for alcoholics. Retreats are common in H.M's work,