The previously unknown "muse" of famed novelist Cormac McCarthy has revealed herself in a Vanity Fair profile, published Wednesday. Complete with excerpts from love letters and the first-hand ...

Cormac McCarthy, the formidable and reclusive writer of Appalachia and the American Southwest, died on June 12, 2023, at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. McCarthy’s fiction took a dark view of ...

Cormac McCarthy is the greatest living novelist. It’s actually strange that he and Houellebecq aren’t compared more often since both write from a similar worldview about similar topics.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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