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The death of the novelist Cormac McCarthy on Tuesday prompted an outpouring from readers, who shared favorite passages, memories of...
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In 2008, my wife and I asked a friend to read a passage from Cormac McCarthy at our wedding, in...
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By turns terse, poetic and baroque, able to find the essence of human nature in the bleakest of circumstances, Cormac...
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Cormac McCarthy, who died on Tuesday at the age of 89, was renowned for stark and violent novels of the...
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Cormac McCarthy attends the New York premiere of The Road, the film adaptation of his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the...
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Cormac McCarthy, the formidable and reclusive writer of Appalachia and the American Southwest, whose raggedly ornate early novels about misfits...
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There have always been two dominant styles in Cormac McCarthy’s prose—roughly, afflatus and deflatus, with not enough breathable oxygen between...
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Meghan Collins Sullivan/NPR Meghan Collins Sullivan/NPR In terms of scope, works of literature exist on a spectrum that goes from...
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Author Cormac McCarthy attends the premiere of "The Road" in New York on Nov. 16, 2009. McCarthy has two novels...
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Cormac McCarthy's first book in 16 years, The Passenger, hits shelves Tuesday. It's prequel, Stella Maris, is set to follow...