Episode 65: The End of Something in STELLA MARIS, with Nell Sullivan and Vernon Cisney
Send us Fan Mail With this episode, READING MCCARTHY has discussed every novel published by Cormac McCarthy. Published in early December of...
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READING MCCARTHY is a podcast devoted to the consideration and discussion of the works of one of our greatest American writers, Cormac McCarthy. Each episode will call upon different well-kn...
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20 of 65 episodesEpisode 64: McCarthy and Philosophy
Send us Fan Mail Last October while attending the American Literature Association fiction symposium in Santa Fe, New Mexico, I managed to se...
Episode 63: A Tribute to Rick Wallach
Rick Wallach, one of the founding members of the Cormac McCarthy Society and, indeed, of McCarthy studies in general, passed away on January...
Episode 62: Part Two--Can the Panel Redeem THE COUNSELOR?
After a long break in which your intrepid host has contended with everything from eye surgery to accreditation, the second part of the panel...
Episode 61: Part One of Seeking Guidance for THE COUNSELOR
Full disclosure time here on the READING MCCARTHY podcast. When Ridley Scott’s film The Counselor arrived in theaters with its very own shin...
Episode 60: Riding Shotgun on THE PASSENGER with Lydia Cooper and Brent Cline
For the podcast's 60th episode we are finally able to develop a lengthy and thorough discussion of The Passenger, McCarthy's penul...
Episode 59: The Big Screen Beckons--McCarthy's Screenplays with Stacey Peebles
Episode 60 of READING McCARTHY sees the return of one of my favorite guests, Dr. Stacey Peebles. In addition to her many other roles describ...
Episode 58: Staying off the Tracks of THE SUNSET LIMITED with Dianne Luce
The 58th episode brings back the excellent Dr. Dianne Luce to discuss with us McCarthy’s 2006 play The Sunset Limited (or is it a novel in d...
Episode 57: The Wittliff with Lead Archivist Katie Salzmann
This past December your not-so-intrepid host was able to make a pilgrimage to San Marcos, Texas, to visit the Wittliff Collection in the Alk...
Episode 56: The Brothers Elmore Flip a Coin with No Country for Old Men
This episode has a history that winds like a West Texas border road. My guests are the Brothers Elmore, and we originally recorded it in Apr...
Episode 55: Writer Ron Rash on McCarthy's Work and Influence
Episode 55 is a discussion with award winning novelist, short story writer, poet, and big-time McCarthy fan, Ron Rash. Ron attended Gardner...
Episode 54: Following McCarthy's Tracks with Austin Smith
This episode of READING MCCARTHY welcomes to the podcast for the first time Austin Smith. Austin studied history and literature at the Unive...
Episode 53: Rambling Down THE ROAD with Bryan Vescio
This 53rd episode of READING MCCARTHY takes a long ramble down THE ROAD, McCarthy’s 2006 Pulitzer Prize winning novel of a father and son en...
Episode 52: McCarthy and Hemingway
Episode 52 is a round table considering the impact of Ernest Hemingway’s writing on the works of Cormac McCarthy. Joining us for this discus...
Episode 51: Teaching McCarthy Round Table
Although the fact often goes unacknowledged, it is a truth that sometimes an author’s residence within and endurance in the canon is a resul...
Episode 50: Barreling through No Country for Old Men with Rick Wallach
The guest for our 50th episode is the OG himself, the redoubtable RICK WALLACH, who joins us for a rousing discussion of No Country for Old...
Episode 49: a Filibuster Panel on the BORDER TRILOGY
In this episode we head across the border one more time for a consideration of the Border Trilogy as a whole. How does knowing how the story...
Episode 48: Tearing Down the Walls of THE STONEMASON with Nick Monk
The guest for this episode is Dr. Nick Monk, who joins me for a consideration of perhaps McCarthy’s most idiosyncratic work. The 90s were an...
Episode 47: McCarthy and Disability with Brent Cline
Episode 47 of READING MCCARTHY considers the author’s references to and uses of disability in its many forms. My guest DR BRENT CLINE. He ha...
Episode 46: Crossing the CITIES OF THE PLAIN with Bryan Vescio
In this episode we ride to the end of the road in the last episode of the Border Trilogy, CITIES ON THE PLAIN. My guest for this foray is Dr...