The Cormac McCarthy Value Collection: All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain
Blank Mag (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Cormac McCarthy shuns interviews but he relishes conversation. Last week the author sat down on the leafy patio of the Medgar Hotel, built about 20 years after the siege of the Alamo, the remains of which are next door. McCarthy had flown to San Antonio to meet his friend Tommy Lee Jones, a star of [...]
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
The writer had been dismissed as an eccentric with 'horrible' style and a hacky, regional view. Now, the much-anticipated film 'The Road,' based on his Pulitzer-winning novel, opens Wednesday. So many people are killed -- so graphically -- in some of his books that it's almost unimaginable. In his latest novel, it's after the end of the world, and besides wandering and waiting, almost nothing happens....
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
It wasn't long after talk show host Oprah Winfrey 's announcement of her intention to retire in 2011 that publishing insiders began referring to her departure as " a blow " to the industry, one from which it would be difficult if not impossible to recover. "We probably won't see something else to match its overall potential impact on book sales in the broadcast arena any time soon,"...
SciFi Scanner (Free subscription) | yesterday
The director explains how his long-awaited adaptation turns the post-apocalyptic genre on its head and addresses why it took so long to bring Cormac McCarthy's novel to the big screen.
Tom Conoboy's Writing Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Another foray into the 'end of the novel' debate, this time by Zadie Smith in The Guardian . It's a very good essay, thought provoking and, although I don't fully go along with her, she makes some excellent points. Her starting point is the apparent coincidence of a number of authors - Foer, Drabble, Achebe - writing essays recently, rather than fiction. Why', she wonders. She then refers to a forthcoming...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tony Williams, a pastor at Aphesis Apostolic Ministry in Fresno, believes the rapture is at hand and people need to prepare by accepting God. Although end-of-times prophecies have bubbled up from the Bible to Nostradamus, the current crop tracks to a pivotal date – 12 / 21 / 12 – on one ancient Mayan calendar. Dene McGriff wants to make sense out of the last days – the end of times....
Drifting: A Director's Log (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
After a draining day of watching movies, this dialogue with Cormac McCarthy in the Wall Street Journal was exactly the enriching read I needed before drifting off to sleep. "There was never a person born since Adam who's been luckier...
SF Gospel (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Get Religion and Beliefnet report that Dimension Films has hired a PR firm known for marketing to conservative Christians to help push The Road. The adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's relentlessly bleak postapocalyptic narrative might seem a tough product to sell...
John Gushue . . . Dot Dot Dot (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
I have zero interest in seeing 2012; the trailer was quite enough, thanks. That said, I was intrigued by this list of the best works of apocalyptic fiction, which includes writers as diverse as Cormac McCarthy and Nevil Shute and Margaret Atwood (for Oryx and Crake).
My Corner of the Universe (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
I wrote about “The Road” , a novel by Cormac McCarthy back in May. It was an excellent book. The writing style was one I haven’t seen before, so it took a while getting used to it. Once I did though, the story was engaging, and terrifying. The movie is due out shortly : November 25, 2009, to be exact. Here’s the official trailer via YouTube. I haven’t seen a movie in...
gtmcknight.com (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
WSJ Interview with Cormac McCarthy : Such a great read I won’t even try picking out the best quote.
BookClubClassics.com (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
photo credit: Lida Rose A weekend home before the excitement of Thanksgiving! Here are the most interesting tidbits I found from the literary world this week… Google Books Update! Hottest Books of the Week… Link for Twilight Lovers Rare interview with Cormac McCarthy Books about Werewolves… Hot off the Presses The Atlantic’s Books of the Year Another great post from: BOOK...
Moderate in the Middle (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Courtesy of HollywoodStreams Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by the author of No Country for Old Men: Cormac McCarthy’s tenth novel, The Road, is his most harrowing yet deeply personal work. Some unnamed catastrophe has scourged the world to a burnt-out cinder, inhabited by the last remnants of mankind and a very few [...]
. A Book every Six Days . (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Publ: 2006 My own copy ISBN: 978-0-330-44754-6 Genre: General Fiction, Science Fiction; Pages: 307p Read because it has already become a classic Rating: ***** ** What led you to pick up this book? I decided it was about time I read this Pulitzer Prize winning novel. Describe the plot without giving anything away. A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece. I must...
Lessons of Darkness (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Whereas Cormac McCarthy is an author to whom cynicism comes easy, director John Hillcoat (The Proposition) is a filmmaker whose doubt about mankind’s capacity for good comes laced with a tinge of humanistic hopefulness. And while McCarthy’s curt, hard prose...
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