'Colossally gifted writer': Remembering Cormac McCarthy, novelist of a darker America
New York Times: McCarthy's books explore a bleak world of violence and outsiders.
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New York Times: McCarthy's books explore a bleak world of violence and outsiders.
Cormac McCarthy, the formidable and reclusive writer of Appalachia and the American Southwest, whose raggedly ornate early novels about misfits and gr
Among academics and McCarthy’s legion of obsessive readers, the essential question about his oeuvre has long been: What’s better, early Cormac McCarthy or late?
His 'No Country for Old Men', made into a film by Joel and Ethan Coen, gave the world the indelible image of Javier Bardem as nihilistic hit man Anton Chigurh, dispatching his victims with a pneumatic bolt gun meant for cattle