Cormac McCarthy
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The fulfilled renown of Moby Dick and of As I Lay Dying is augmented by Blood Meridian, since Cormac McCarthy is the worthy disciple both of Melville and Faulkner
a very bad pregnant person. I read Cormac McCarthy’s ‘The Road’ while I was pregnant, and that book is full of people roasting babies.
You look at the most recent novels by Colson Whitehead, Gary Shteyngart, Rick Moody, Cormac McCarthy. There’s almost been a little floodlet of so-called ‘literary’ writers either embracing or circling around clear literary genres.More quotes »
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A Ribbon of Darkness: Slattery’s Apocalyptic Vision is Dark Poetry for the End of the World
“The Susquehanna was a ribbon of darkness unfurling itself across the Pennsylvania landscape, the hills, the first ripples of mountains, all bleached by the moon.” – Lost Everything by Brian Francis Slattery Brian Francis Slattery’s third novel Lost Ever from Barnes & Noble Review Read more »
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Daily Dose for Tue, May 29: Blood Red Road (Dust Lands Trilogy #1)
Saba has spent her whole life in Silverlake, a dried-up wasteland ravaged by constant sandstorms. The Wrecker civilization has long been destroyed, leaving only landfills for Saba and her family to scavenge from. That's fine by her, as long as her belove from Powell's Books Read more »
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Cannes: Shia Labeouf Talks The "Messy, Dirty, Realistic" Violence Of 'Lawless' & John Hillcoat Explains How Guy Pearce Scared Nick Cave's Kids
For fans of Australian helmer John Hillcoat, it’s been a long wait since his last film, the adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel “The Road” in 2009. However, it looks like patience has paid off with his latest film, “Lawless,” which tells the tale of th from Indie Wire Read more »
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Book Club June 2012 selection: The Road
The searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece.A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the s from Offbeat Mama Read more »
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Tracking 2012′s Best Songs #12
El-P raps like he is in a Cormac McCarthy novel. His impossibly dense verses are steeped in paranoia and menace, conjuring up a post-apocalyptic world where no one is to be trusted. On paper, it is unclear why such an agreeable man chooses to make music from Pretty Much Amazing Read more »
