A podcast hosted by Scott Yarbrough and guest Cormackians on the works, themes, and backgrounds of writer Cormac McCarthy.
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@penguinrandom , check out the new podcast for Cormac McCarthy readers, @MccarthyReading open.spotify.com/episode/4zW…
Great American Novel Ep 40 tackles Ship of Fools
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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.
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.
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/episo…
@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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“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.”
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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.
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.
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.
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The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.
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Ernest Hemingway’s book recommendations:
The Blue Hotel – Crane
The Open Boat – Crane
Madame Bovary – Flaubert
Dubliners – Joyce
The Red and the Black – Stendhal
Of Human Bondage – Maugham
Anna Karenina – Tolstoy
War and Peace – Tolstoy
Listening to "Episode 28: Falling off the Cliff with The Catcher in the Rye" of Great American Novel Podcast at buzzsprout.com/1746696/15164…
The new episode of Reading McCarthy is about to drop:
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Although the fact often goes unacknowledged, it is a truth that sometimes an author’s residence within and endurance in the canon is a result of how that author is perceived and taught in the academy
Bryan Giemza is an Associate Professor of Humanities and Literature in the Honors College at Texas Tech University. Dr. Giemza is author or editor of numerous books on American literary and cultural history, 10 book chapters, and more than 30 published articles and reviews…