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 Faulk...
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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 achievemen...
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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 fict...
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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.
Cormac McCar...
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In the following essay, Broyard discusses McCarthy's writing, and his ability to make readers empathize with evil, immoral characters.
It's interesting to see how a good writer can ma...
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In the following review, Jaynes comments on McCarthy's reticent nature and the author's emergence as a recognized best-seller, and touches briefly on his life and career.
When Cormac ...
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In the following essay, Arnold provides an overview of McCarthy's works, discussing how the novels address the issues of contemporary society. Focusing on the religious themes of the works, Arn...
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In the following review Davenport discusses the Southern influences in McCarthy's novels, and praises the novelist's originality and skill in rendering the "outrageous and the mac...
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In the following review Nolan discusses the "gruesome pilgrimage" undertaken by the protagonist and the writing style of the author.
The apocalyptic landscape of Cormac McCarthy...
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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...
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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 t...
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"No Country for Old Men," the Coen brothers' searing take on crime and carnage along the Rio Grande, is the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures' pick for the best film of 2007.Starring Tomm...
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The 2007 Pulitzer Prize winners:JOURNALISM:PUBLIC SERVICE _ The Wall Street Journal, for coverage of a 2006 stock-options scandal that rattled corporate America.BREAKING NEWS REPORTING _ The (Portl...
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The Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction was awarded Monday to Lawrence Wright for his book, "The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11," a penetrating analysis of how Islamic fundamentalis...
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The New York Film Festival will open with Wes Anderson's "The Darjeeling Limited" and honor the Coen brothers' "No Country for Old Men" as its centerpiece in a particularly American slate for the i...
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That Stephen Colbert sure is funny, and he sure has some funny ideas about books.Just ask "The Kite Runner" author Khaled Hosseini.Hosting a Saturday breakfast at BookExpo America, Colbert tangled ...
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Javier Bardem, an Oscar nominee for 2000's "Before Night Falls," is no fan of his own work."Man! It's hard to see yourself on the screen. There's not a single movie that I've done that I've liked,"...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Best-selling author Nora
Roberts won book of the year Monday at the third annual
Quill Awards, which were created to bring glamor and red carpet
extravagance to the world of p...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dark crime thriller "No
Country for Old Men" won best film Monday at the New York
Film Critics Circle Awards -- the movie's second such honor in
the run-up to February's Acade...
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Cormac McCarthy
Critical Review by Mark Royden Winchell
Cormac McCarthy talks to Oprah Winfrey
