Reading McCarthy

A podcast hosted by Scott Yarbrough and guest Cormackians on the works, themes, and backgrounds of writer Cormac McCarthy.

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@penguinrandom , check out the new podcast for Cormac McCarthy readers, @MccarthyReading https://t.co/SMdKcuQ1RC

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@bernardtjoy Those in the pic are great. You need Sepich’s on BM and Dianne Luce’s 2 indispensable books.

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“Hurrah for Karamazov!”

Ending this thread by quoting Charles Bukowski’s poem on Dostoevsky.

“I was glad they gave Dostoevsky a
reprieve,
it gave me one”

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Hosts Kirk Curnutt and Scott Yarbrough wrestle with these questions: is this work a great American novel after all?  Are we all fools bound on an eternal quest for understanding?  Why did the author take 30 years to finish the book? Come steam away with us as we sort it out.

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Great American Novel Ep 40 tackles Ship of Fools
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A few weeks ago—after this episode was recorded—author @StephenKing posted online his top ten novels of all time—and among them was Katherine Anne Porter’s Ship of Fools.

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Ship of Fools received rave reviews at first, before then suffering through the obligatory critical backlash. The film rights sold for what at the time was a kaboodle of money and the movie was nominated for and received a number of Academy Awards.

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@austincamsmith is a pilot, adventure photographer, HR consultant (I'm thinking REALLY extreme ropes courses?!?) and offers great insights in his airstream-living 3 month journey...

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The new episode of Reading McCarthy is a discussion of Austin Smith's odyssey across the southwest tracking the sites and pathways of Cormac McCarthy's southwestern works. https://t.co/AKSpn6CBYY

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@AmericanGwyn And straddling that sequence from 7 years before and from 13 years later we have the judge and Chigurh. And of course John Grady will have to face Eduardo whose own speechifying adds to this…

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“Great works of Literature neither ‘harm’ nor ‘help’ Readers, but rather allow them to enjoy their solitude. Art isn’t trauma or therapy, but a third secret thing.”

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@polanskydj I think he needed to reference Austen to seal the deal…. Metropolitan and Barcelona should be required viewing.

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@AmericanGwyn https://t.co/dufnsQu3uC

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@AmericanGwyn That’s a great list. There’s a serious lapse in readership in young men now—maybe they’re lost to video games— and it shows in college enrollment, graduations… I don’t know how we break in. I think grade schools have to figure out some intercessions.

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@thejeremybjones @jessievaneerden That Sanders essay is an excellent piece of writing; I’ll have to check out “A Good Day”

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They ate and moved on, leaving the fire on the ground behind them, and as they rode up into the mountains this fire seemed to become altered of its location, now here, now there, drawing away, or shifting unaccountably along the flank of their movement.

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@CaitlinPacific And his uncle James M was no slouch either!

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@bleakhousing I was able to interview Richard (see ep 23), but unfortunately both Tom S. and Frank M have passed. I should reach out to Sala and see if he’s interested, though. Thanks!

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@Jamesdrohan Well— there’s nothing in the last para on salmon, but rather the brook trout which used to be there. I do think there’s a warning to us not to take it all for granted…

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Ep 54 of Reading McCarthy has posted: a long ramble down THE ROAD, McCarthy’s 2006 Pulitzer Prize winning novel of a father and son enduring life in a harrowing, ashen landscape after some unknown apocalypse. For this discussion I’m glad to welcome back guest Dr. Bryan Vescio.

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@AmericanGwyn Billy P’s old man channeling my father…

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numerous articles on American authors including Mark Twain, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, and Nathanael West, and articles on works by Cormac Mccarthy  including Suttree, Blood Meridian, and The Road.