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  • Reading Cormac McCarthy

    March 14, 2008

    • As a novelist, Cormac McCarthy is many things: heir to the Southern gothic tradition, reviver of Celtic lyricism, metaphysical speculator, master comic, eschewer of punctuation, and reinventor of the iconic American West, to name a few.He has been writing and publishing novels since 1965, but most readers have plunged only recently into McCarthy’s darkly baroque work. His latest book, The Road ...