On page 318 of Esquire‘s 75th anniversary issue, the magazine takes satiric note of “75 Years of Esquire Corrections.” One of these mock entries explains the real reasons for Raymond Carver’s fame:

Due to a printer’s error, 948 words were accidentally omitted from “Neighbors,” Raymond Carver’s first short story published in Esquire, in the June 1971 issue. Credit for Carver’s influential spare style, once attributed to a former editor at the magazine, should now be directed to a retired print manager in New Jersey.