The Cormac McCarthy Value Collection: All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain
33 1/3 (Free subscription) | yesterday
Many congratulations to Carl Wilson - his book for the series on Celine Dion has made it on to Paste magazine's list of the 20 Best Books of the Decade. If you haven't read it yet, perhaps this might nudge you over the cliff. 20. Chuck Klosterman - Killing Yourself to Live 19. Malcolm Gladwell - The Tipping Point 18. Donald Miller - Blue Like Jazz 17. Carl Wilson - Let's Talk About Love 16. Joseph...
Campaign for the American Reader (Free subscription) | yesterday
This weekend's featured contributor at Writers Read: Dylan Landis, author of the novel-in-stories Normal People Don't Live Like This.Her entry concludes:And I'm rereading all ten Cormac McCarthy novels, pretty much in order. McCarthy is a great teacher when you read him with two eyes, left eye for pleasure and right eye on what he's doing. I'm almost through The Orchard Keeper, his first novel,
Crime Always Pays (Free subscription) | yesterday
Yep, it’s rubber-hose time, folks: a rapid-fire Q&A for those shifty-looking usual suspects ... What crime novel would you most like to have written? THE LAST GOOD KISS by James Crumley. I read it ages ago as a fledgling novelist and suddenly lights went on. I’ve talked to a surprising number of other writers over the years who’ve said the same thing. What fictional character...
LisNews (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Read Me: A Century of Classic American Book Advertisements This witty and heavily illustrated volume features more than 300 vintage book advertisements—startling and strange, beautiful and funny—that together reveal a kind of secret history of American literature over the last century. New York Times book critic Dwight Garner brings together original ads for some of the most acclaimed...
A New Band A Day! (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Think your life's crappy? Pah. I've just read Cormac McCarthy's The Road, which, as far as I can tell, was nothing more than a literary exercise on the author's part to redefine the word 'bleak'. In The Road, McCarthy takes the meaning to whole new levels of shuddering misery from whence the word itself can now only be written in a special ink made from a mixture of the ground bones from your recently...
Extra Weblog (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Viggo Mortensen talks about working on the film adaption of Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic tale, "The Road." Mortensen also says he was happy to hear McCarthy saw the movie and was "moved." The handsome actor also says not to believe rumors that say he's quitting acting -- he will be starring in an upcoming play. Click here to watch "The Road" trailer.
Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
In Cormac McCarthy's ''novel in dramatic form'', a suicidal professor, known only as White, is snatched from the path of a train by a former con, Black.
Entertainment Tonight (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Charlize Theron and Viggo Mortensen reflect on life at the American Film Institute's premiere of 'The Road' on Wednesday night in Los Angeles. Based on the Cormac McCarthy tale of a widower (Viggo) and his son ( Kodi Smit-McPhee ), the movie follows the two as they struggle to survive in a post-apocalyptic world. Viggo, who was honored by the AFI at the event, said of his young co-star, "I felt...
PETRONA (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
On the cover of my edition of GO WITH ME is a quote from a review in the Wall Street Journal: ‘A novel with echoes of DELIVERANCE and Cormac McCarthy.’ For me, that promised scary hillbillies, a gothic plot, powerful spare writing and wilderness, and, to some extent, that’s what Castle Freeman’s short novel delivers. But hang on, this is not the badlands of the deep south: this...
Sci-Fi Fan Letter (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
The most recent Mind Meld on SF Signal deals with what speculative fiction novels first published in the last 10 years should be included in high school literature courses. I had to read the Chrisalids and 1984 in class, but most of my speculative fiction reading was done after school. I read mostly fantasy but felt after a while that I should read some of the SF classics as well, and started with...
Pajiba (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Cormac McCarthy's The Road is a novel so dark and depressing that it's downright Russian. After the wonderful success of translating No Country for Old Men to screen, there were definitely high hopes that the planned adaptation of The Road...
Stray Carrier Pigeon (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
A writer friend whom I met at Tomales Bay, John, believes that fiction can make humanity better. After reading The Road , I agree. Who knew that a father giving his son a can of Coca-Cola could be so beatific?
Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
In a 9.12 piece called "Sumptuous Devastation," I described John Hillcoat's The Road (which I had just seen) as "two hours of rotted, ash-covered, end-of-the-world remnants captured in ravishing, desaturated, ugly-beautiful photography with highly admirable production design. Viggo Mortensen and the kid are very good...yes, fine. But what they bring isn't nearly enough. "I read...
Movie news, trailers, photos (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
A month before the release Dimension Films release another trailer for upcoming apocalyptic tale “The Road”, staring Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce and Robert Duvall. This film is based on Cormac McCarthy’s best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. It follows an unnamed father and his young son as they make their way toward the coast for possible [...]
Blogs are for Wusses (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
"The Road" looks like the bleak and grimy holiday fare I need to cut the saccharine sweetness that Hollywood tends to pump out towards the end of the year. Based on the even bleaker novel written by Cormac McCarthy (author of "No Country for Old Men"), "The Road" tells the story of a man and his son trying to stay alive after a global apocalypse wipes out most of humanity...
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