American novelist Cormac McCarthy's 12 books are widely considered some of the best literature of the modern canon, and he is often ranked among the greatest American writers ever. Charles Joseph ...

McCarthy’s novel was turned into an indelible film by the Coen brothers, but get past that: The book is well worth revisiting. “No Country for Old Men” is a blood-dark meditation on the ...

there is a stronger author out there. Cormac McCarthy is the greatest living novelist. It’s actually strange that he and Houellebecq aren’t compared more often since both write from a similar ...

Cormac McCarthy, the formidable and reclusive writer of Appalachia and the American Southwest, died on June 12, 2023, at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. McCarthy’s fiction took a dark view of ...

My article, “Robert Coles and Cormac McCarthy: A Case Study of Literary Patronage,” is currently under review. Abbey, Edward. Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness. 1968. Touchstone, 1990.

Scholar Dianne C. Luce notes that at the time, Cormac McCarthy was living in Knoxville, just a couple hours up the highway from Chattanooga, where the local papers also covered the Lula Lake murders.

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