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The authentic American apocalyptic novel | Harold Bloom and Blood Meridian
The Triumph of Death, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, c. 1562 Harold Bloom’s esteem for Blood Meridian may have done much to advance the novel’s reputation since its publication, especially in pre-social...
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Three Books
Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe. Fat trade paperback by Vintage; most recent date indicates 1975 but that can’t be right. No designer credited. You know Poe. Tell My Horse by Zora Neale...
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They walked on into the dark and they slept like dogs in the sand and had been sleeping so when something black flapped up out of the night ground and perched on Sproule’s chest. Fine fingerbones...
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The Final Four(horsemen of the Apocalypse) match-ups and Round Four results...
The Elite Armageddon Eight of the 2020 Tournament of Zeitgeisty Writers is all wrapped up, and we now have our Final Four(horsemen of the Apocalypse). Let’s go bracket by bracket: 2020 Tournament of...
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“Books are made out of books”| Blood Meridian and Samuel Chamberlain
In his 1992 interview with The New York Times, Cormac McCarthy said, “The ugly fact is books are made out of books. The novel depends for its life on the novels that have been written.” McCarthy’s...
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Blog about acquiring a Vintage Contemporaries edition of Barry Hannah’s...
I’ve been a big fan of the Vintage Contemporaries 1980s series for ages now. The books were easily available, cheap and used, in the nineties, and I first read Raymond Carver and Jay McInerney in VC...
View ArticleCormac McCarthy: Would you wish the Nobel Prize off on a friend or an enemy?
Who should be the next American Nobel Prize winner? CORMAC McCARTHY: Would you wish the Nobel Prize off on a friend or an enemy? What would you have done, do you think, if it hadn’t been for writing?...
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Cormac McCarthy’s Cinematic Trash
The above is an unsigned New York Times article published on 8 Nov. 1998. Cormac’s Trash was released in 1999. In a 2001 interview, producer Mylène Moreno suggests that the short film did not violate...
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Books acquired, May Day 2021
Every year, within a week or two of Mother’s Day, our family likes to get a place in a proximal walkable beach town. Some place not too far a drive from our simple ranch home near the mighty...
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A Blood Meridian Christmas
Cormac McCarthy’s seminal anti-Western Blood Meridian isn’t exactly known for visions of peace on earth and good will to man. Still, there’s a strange scene in the book’s final third that subtly...
View ArticleA hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream | Blood Meridian
The question was then put as to whether there were on Mars or other planets in the void men or creatures like them. And at this, the judge who had returned to the fire and stood half naked and...
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New novels from Cormac McCarthy in the fall of 2022
Cormac McCarthy has two novels coming out later this year: The Passenger and Stella Maris. Speculation about The Passenger has percolated for years, with increased interest after McCarthy read excerpts...
View ArticleTwelve-year-old Cormac McCarthy starred in a 1946 agricultural documentary...
Redditor Jarslow posted the short film Dairying in Tennessee today on the Cormac McCarthy Reddit page. The short film was posted on Vimeo by the Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound yesterday,...
View ArticleAny serious writer is experimental in that he’s trying to do something new or...
McCarthy’s works have been termed “experimental” by most critics but he thinks that can be said of most serious writers. “Any serious writer is experimental in that he’s trying to do something new or...
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Aw, kick him, honey | Gérard DuBois illustration for Blood Meridian
Illustration for Cormac McCarthy’s novel Blood Meridian by Gérard DuBois. From the Folio Society edition of Blood Meridian.
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Scattered thoughts on starting Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Passenger (Book...
I picked up Cormac McCarthy’s new novel The Passenger today. The last Cormac McCarthy novel was The Road, which came out way back in 2006, year of this blog’s birth. I read most of The Road in the...
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You never did the Thalidomide Kid | More scattered thoughts on Cormac...
The Thalidomide Kid found her in a roominghouse on Clark Street. Near North Side. He knocked on the door. Unusual for him. Of course she knew who it was. She’d been expecting him. And anyway it wasn’t...
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The incest thing | More scattered thoughts on Cormac McCarthy’s novel The...
He’s in love with his sister and she’s dead. —The Passenger, Cormac McCarthy The theme of brother-sister incest haunts the early American novel on its lower levels of literacy as well as on the...
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White Meridian | More scattered thoughts on Cormac McCarthy’s novel The...
He’d bought a small ruled notebook at the stationer’s in Ibiza. Cheap pulp paper that would soon yellow and crumble. He took it out and wrote in it with his pencil. Vor mir keine Zeit, nach mir wird...
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