Episode 53: Rambling Down THE ROAD with Bryan Vescio

Reading McCarthy by Scott Yarbrough and Guest Hosts

Aug 2, 202472:20Arts

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 enduring life in a harrowing, ashen landscape after some undisclosed apocalypse. F...

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