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This “huge” fan of the writer (and of Nicolas Cage) says he “pretty much hated” “The Passenger” and “Stella Maris.” His own ...
Novelist Cormac McCarthy died June 13. Dallas Morning News editorial page editor Rudolph Bush spent four years studying his work, which he found dark, unsettling and brutally true.
When Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy died in 2023, Knoxville residents were quick to reminisce about his deep connections to the city. Many credit McCarthy, whose family moved here ...
Cormac McCarthy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who in prose both dense and brittle took readers from the southern Appalachians to the desert Southwest in such novels as “The Road ...
For the entirety of my writing life, Cormac McCarthy has been a mountain. Some of the novelists of my generation found the mountain beautiful; others found it oppressive. But virtually all of us ...
Cormac McCarthy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist of “The Road,” “Blood Meridian” and “All the Pretty Horses,” died Tuesday. He was 89.
Cormac McCarthy, whose nihilistic and violent tales of the American frontier and post-apocalyptic worlds led to awards, movie adaptations and sleepless nights for his enthralled and appalled ...
Cormac McCarthy, lone wolf among the last of the literary giants The American novelist, who died Tuesday at 89, took grand stylistic chances that few others could — or would — dare ...
If this makes McCarthy’s work sound bleak, well … it often was. His early works, ending with 1979’s “Suttree,” are Faulknerian fables of his birth territory of Appalachia.
All the pretty balloons reminds me of the title of Cormac McCarthy’s book, “All the Pretty Horses.” Going to the Hot Air Balloon Festival in Indianola was never a bucket list item, but when Ginnie and ...
McCarthy’s death inspired hundreds of people to share their impressions of him and his work. The death of the novelist Cormac McCarthy on Tuesday prompted an outpouring from readers, who shared ...