Many scholars consider this to be McCarthy’s greatest Southern novel. It traces the title character’s life along the Tennessee River mingling with drunks, grifters and misfits. This whipsawing ...
"Cormac always wanted me to tell my story ... Britt also inspired the slapstick sidekick Harrogate in "Suttree," which McCarthy was writing when they first met at a Tucson motel swimming pool ...
Cormac McCarthy, the formidable and reclusive writer ... is a really dangerous idea.” From the start his writing drew comparisons to novelists as different as William Faulkner and Mark Twain ...
Cormac McCarthy is the greatest living novelist ... switches to first person for a single sentence. This is amateur writing. Houellebecq also likes to plod away from the story to deliver streams ...
Scholar Dianne C. Luce notes that at the time, Cormac McCarthy was living in Knoxville, just a couple hours up the highway from Chattanooga, where the local papers also covered the Lula Lake murders.
Author Dorian Lynskey explores why writers have long imagined and written about the end of the world (and why readers come ...
and he makes judicious use of it in his illuminating study of McCarthy's Irish and Catholic cultural inheritance. My article, “Robert Coles and Cormac McCarthy: A Case Study of Literary Patronage,” is ...