Cormac McCarthy, whose early novels were often set in eastern Tennessee and whose later work focuses on the American Southwest, is frequently compared with such Southern-based writers as William Faulkner, Carson McCullers, and Flannery O'Connor. In a...

All is telling.--The Crossing, 155 Cormac McCarthy's readers are unanimous in recognizing him as a great stylist. There is, however, no similar agreement about his message or about what his novels illustrate. In 1995, Nell Sullivan reflected that "[s]ince Cormac McCarthy arrived...

Cormac McCarthy Drinking Game The Best Way to Read The Road by Chris McCann WHEN I NEED solace I turn to the novels of Cormac McCarthy. There's comfort in reading about a man being graphically, stoically bludgeoned or the fall of a...

Oprah Winfrey got Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Cormac McCarthy to do the one thing he hates most: talk about his work."You probably shouldn't be talking about it, you probably should be doing it," the 73-year-old author told Winfrey in a rare TV interview, which aired Tuesday...

Don't expect a lot of sunshine in Oprah Winfrey's latest book club pick. Publishing's leading hit-maker has chosen Cormac McCarthy's "The Road," a bleak, apocalyptic novel by an author who rarely talks to the media."It is so extraordinary," Winfrey said Wednesday. "I promise you, you'll...

In the following essay, Winchell maintains that the "pyrotechnical use of language that is McCarthy's distinctive signature as a writer" is the author's greatest achievement. Winchell also discusses the influence of Faulkner on McCarthy's work and comments at length on the "revulsion" and "horror" found in the novels.

In the following article, Woodward conducts an interview with the elusive McCarthy, and gains many insights into the author's writing habits, his personal life, and his thoughts on his own fiction.

In the following essay, Bell discusses the desires of McCarthy's characters to live in a world uncomplicated by the influences and demands the contemporary world places on them.