Reading McCarthy @MccarthyReading

A podcast hosted by Scott Yarbrough and guest Cormackians on the works, themes, and backgrounds of writer Cormac McCarthy. readingmccarthy.buzzsprout.com Charleston, SC Joined February 2021

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Reading McCarthy @MccarthyReading

2 years ago

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

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2 years ago

“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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2 years ago

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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2 years ago

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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2 years ago

Great American Novel Ep 40 tackles Ship of Fools buzzsprout.com/1746696/episod… 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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2 years ago

@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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2 years ago

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. buzzsprout.com/1616140/episod…

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2 years ago

@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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Aaron Gwyn @AmericanGwyn

2 years ago

“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.”

(((not a billionaire))) @kitten_mindful

2 years ago

@JoyceCarolOates Insisting a core piece of a traditional curriculum be abandoned is a big step, one that should only be taken if the harm of reading the work is large enough to justify the loss in learning that would result from dropping it

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2 years ago

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

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2 years ago

@AmericanGwyn pewresearch.org/short-reads/20…

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2 years ago

@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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2 years ago

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

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Blood Meridian @BloodMeridianQT

2 years ago

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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2 years ago

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

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2 years ago

@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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2 years ago

@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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2 years ago

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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2 years ago

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

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2 years ago

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2 years ago

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.