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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...
Rick Wallach, one of the founding members of the Cormac McCarthy Society and, indeed, of McCarthy studies in general, passed away on January...
After a long break in which your intrepid host has contended with everything from eye surgery to accreditation, the second part of the panel...
Full disclosure time here on the READING MCCARTHY podcast. When Ridley Scott’s film The Counselor arrived in theaters with its very own shin...
For the podcast's 60th episode we are finally able to develop a lengthy and thorough discussion of The Passenger, McCarthy's penul...
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...
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...
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...
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 is a discussion with award winning novelist, short story writer, poet, and big-time McCarthy fan, Ron Rash. Ron attended Gardner...
This episode of READING MCCARTHY welcomes to the podcast for the first time Austin Smith. Austin studied history and literature at the Unive...
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 is a round table considering the impact of Ernest Hemingway’s writing on the works of Cormac McCarthy. Joining us for this discus...
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...
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...
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...
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 of READING MCCARTHY considers the author’s references to and uses of disability in its many forms. My guest DR BRENT CLINE. He ha...
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...
This is our final of 3 tribute episodes in the wake of Cormac McCarthy's passing this past June. Guests on this final tribute episode i...
In the wake of Cormac McCarthy's passing on June 13, 2023, a number of excellent tributes and discussion pieces were published. In this...
On June 13, 2023, we lost a literary giant. Cormac McCarthy, the greatest writer of our time (in this podcast's completely unbiased opi...
Like the rest of the world I learned this past Tuesday, June 13th, that Cormac McCarthy had passed away at the age of 89. This episode had a...
Episode 41 is our second excursion over the border as the Brothers Elmore and I finish our conversation about THE CROSSING. Returning as the...
Episode 40 is a long ride through rough country as we dig into The CROSSING, McCarthy's masterful middle volume in the Border Trilogy....
Cormac still types his novels on an Olivetti typewriter and your host can't figure out Facebook. So for Episode 39 we bring in some exp...
Today's guest is George Berridge. George began academic life as a journalist but like Hank Williams saw the light and also began diggin...
Frequent guests Steven Frye and Stacey Peebles join me for another roundup of All the Pretty Horses, the National Book Award winning novel w...
Like Cormac McCarthy, Wes Morgan was born in the North—Albany, New York rather than Rhode Island—but came south at the age of 4. Wes grew up...
Episode 35 takes a first ride across the border with the novel that would elevate McCarthy's profile and career. All the Pretty Horses...
Some six weeks or so after the publication of McCarthy's first novel in 16 years, The Passenger, we have its slim companion volume, the...
This episode is a thorough discussion of McCarthy's use of the animal kingdom in his works. My guest in this episode is Wallis Sanborn,...
After a sixteen year wait, we finally have a new novel by Cormac McCarthy grasped in our greedy little podcasting clutches. In this episode...
This episode delves again into McCarthy's roots as we consider his intersections with Irish literature. The guest in this episode is Te...
The second part of our wonderful panel discussion of Cormac McCarthy’s masterful and shattering novel Blood Meridian . Our returning guests...
Three returning guests join us for this first part of our interesting and engaging discussion of Cormac McCarthy’s magnum opus Blood Meridia...
Episode 28 brings back previous guest Nell Sullivan to discuss a thorny subject: McCarthy’s women characters, with digressions into the ways...
Episode 27 of READING MCCARTHY is a thorough consideration of Race in the Works of Cormac McCarthy. The guest for this thoughtful and engagi...
Everything is topsy-turvy for this episode as returning guest Peter Josyph seizes control of the station and turns the tables on your regula...
Our returning guest for READING MCCARTHY is Stacey Peebles. On this 25th episode of the podcast we venture out into the Darkening World to C...
The guest for Episode 24 of READING MCCARTHY needs no introduction to any member of the Cormac McCarthy Society, visitors to the CormacMccar...
Episode 23 of READING MCCARTHY brings us a great discussion with actor and audiobook narrator Richard Poe. Poe is known to McCarthy fans as...
This is the second part of the round table discussion of one of McCarthy’s masterworks, the 1979 novel Suttree. The guests for this wonderfu...
We kick off Season 2 of READING McCARTHY with a very special episode. Instead of having only one guest today, we’ll have three in the first...
Episode 20 brings back guest Bryan Giemza in a discussion which begins as a consideration of McCarthy and Irish Catholicism in the American...
This episode is Part TWO of my excellent wandering conversation with the energetic and versatile Peter Josyph. Author, Actor, Artist, Auteur...
The guest for Episode 18 is so interesting and diverse that he has sprawled into two episodes! Author, Actor, Artist, Auteur, and more, Pete...
Episode 17 is an epic consideration of McCarthy’s first great epic novel, Suttree. Our returning guest is Dr. Dianne Luce. Dianne Luce is a...
Our guest for Episode 16 is Michael Crews, author of Books are Made out of Books : A guide to Cormac McCarthy’s Literary Influences, publish...
Episode 15 is a dive into McCarthy’s first produced and published screenplay, The Gardener’s Son. The guest on this episode is Dr. Stacey Pe...
Episode 14 is a consideration of McCarthy and faith. Today’s guest Dr. Bryan Vescio is Professor and Chair of English at High Point Universi...