Raymond Carver Biography
http://www.whitman.edu/english/carver/biography1.html
A biography that deals with his life and his work.
Harold Bloom's Raymond Carver
Excerpts from Harold Bloom's edited study of Carver's work.
Cheever's "The Five-Forty-Eight"
http://www.publishproject.com/eng102/cheever_548.pdf
A pdf of the 1954 issue of the New Yorker containing John Cheever's short story "The Five-Forty-Eight." Carver's "The Train" is a sequel to this story.