Remembering Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning genius behind such indelible American novels as Suttree, Blood Meridian, and The Road, along with his most accessible work, The Border Trilogy, has died in Santa Fe at age 89.

Too often touted as a successor to the gothic modernism of William Faulkner, McCarthy plotted his own unique linguistic routes through the American south, from the littoral miasmas of the Tennessee River to the high shimmering dread of the western salt plains. His fictions seethed with ornate brutality, shifting in register from the biblical to the profane and back again as he superimposed American mythologies over the lowliest of American characters.

For more on McCarthy’s life, work, and legacy, read on.

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Rare Thoughts on Writing from Cormac McCarthy in This Unlikely Interview

Cormac McCarthy Photograph © Beowulf Sheehan www.beowulfsheehan.com

Beowulf Sheehan on What It Was Like to Photograph Cormac McCarthy

Harold Bloom on Cormac McCarthy, True Heir to Melville and Faulkner

Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian Was Almost a Plain Old Western

Blood Meridian’s 10 Most McCarthian Sentences

Is Cormac McCarthy’s The Passenger a Thriller in Disguise, or Something Deeper?

The First Reviews of Every Cormac McCarthy Novel

On War, Fatherhood, and the Half-Life of Cormac McCarthy’s Literary Fission

Hiking Cormac McCarthy’s Western Wilderness During an Immigration Crisis

Is The Counselor Cormac Mccarthy’s Overlooked Masterpiece?