Cormac McCarthy to Settle Down 'The Road'

Texas State acquires the papers of Texas' most famously reclusive writer

"...Texas State University announced last week the acquisition of Cormac McCarthy's papers for its Southwestern Writers Collection, part of..."

Jan. 18, 2008 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

The Road

Cormac McCarthy's bleak, end-of-days novel survives the transition to the screen with remarkable veracity.

"...more of a downer: my first reading of Texan Cormac McCarthy's bleak, end-of-days novel; Oprah Winfrey's championing of the..."

Nov. 27, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Counselor

Cormac McCarthy pens his first screenplay, and Ridley Scott directs the tasty cast.

"...boasts the screenwriting debut of Texas’ literary dirty-deeds godhead Cormac McCarthy. The Pulitzer Prize-winning McCarthy, at 80, has penned..."

Oct. 25, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

No Country for Old Men

The Coen brothers display magnificent form with this Cormac McCarthy tale about intransigent evil in the modern West.

"...brothers, they of the dark-humored film genre conflations, and Cormac McCarthy, the modern laureate of the Southern Gothic novel...."

Nov. 16, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Turning the Page on the Year in Books

New works by Cormac McCarthy and Sarah Bird make for a memorable year in literature

"...It's always a literary event when a new Cormac McCarthy book arrives, especially in light of his absence..."

Dec. 16, 2022 Arts Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

All the Pretty Horses

"...Sam Shepard. This much-storied and long-in-the-making film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's widely cherished Western novel is neither the sacrilege..."

Dec. 29, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bibliomania

Books We Love and a Few Books We Don't

"...Decade 1. All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy 2. The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy 3. Cities..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Books Feature

The Road

No one has ever accused Cormac McCarthy of portraying the black-hearted underbelly of human nature through rose-colored glasses

"...by Cormac McCarthy..."

Sept. 15, 2006 Books Review by Jay Trachtenberg

Postscripts

Thinning the Herd

"...and good nature in reporting details like that are. Not-Cormac..."

Sept. 11, 1998 Books Column by Clay Smith

The Sunset Limited

Trinity Street Players production lightens heavy load.

"...Galway Arts Festival, I couldn't bear the work of Cormac McCarthy. Taken literally, it is a hard read. The..."

Aug. 9, 2013 Arts Review by Matthew Irwin

Writer-at-Large

"...In a July 1992 article in Texas Monthly about Cormac McCarthy, whose All the Pretty Horses had just been..."

May 14, 1999 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Postscripts

Rebel Without a Cause

"...calling up reporters at rival papers telling them I'm Cormac McCarthy and that, come to think of it, I..."

May 22, 1998 Books Column by Clay Smith

No Country for Old Men

Cormac McCarthy's first book since the conclusion of his highly acclaimed Border Trilogy seven years ago returns to the rugged frontier of far West Texas. It's a mythical landscape whose desolate timelessness cannot, however, forestall an unrelentingly changing world.

"...by Cormac McCarthy..."

July 15, 2005 Books Review by Jay Trachtenberg

The Girls on the 50-Yard Line

Documentarian Mylène Moreno always wanted to be a professional athlete. Instead, she made True-Hearted Vixens, a film about women who did. Moreno brings Vixens, documenting the attempt to create a women's professional football league, and her short "Cormac's Trash" to the Alamo Drafthouse this Wednesday.

"...AC: You're also showing the short "Cormac's Trash," that you produced and your husband Rafe Greenlee..."

May 25, 2001 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Honor Among Thieves

James Carlos Blake demystifies A World of Thieves and the world of writing.

"...been favorably compared to Faulkner, Hemingway, Charles Willeford, and Cormac McCarthy...."

March 8, 2002 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

Oil's Well That Ends Well

"...Porter, George Sessions Perry, Billy Lee Brammer, Elmer Kelton, Cormac McCarthy, and especially Larry McMurtry. The organization is primarily..."

May 7, 1999 Books Feature

The Year of the Everlasting Storm

COVID-inspired anthology eschews cohesion for innovation

"...My Darling” – deals directly with death. Shades of Cormac McCarthy and his own earlier work (most especially A..."

Sept. 10, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets

Intimate, semi-improvised last night at a dive bar sees delight in the dregs

"...for my baby and one more for the road. (Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, that is.)..."

July 24, 2020 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

In Lawrence Wright's Novel, an Imagined Pandemic That's Frighteningly Real

If disease-ravaged world of The End of October feels like our own, that’s because the author did his research rigorously

"...Scott posed to him about the post-apocalyptic setting of Cormac McCarthy's The Road: What could cause the society we..."

May 1, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Leave No Trace

Into the woods in this moving family drama

"...remind some of such films as Captain Fantastic and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, both curiously starring Viggo Mortensen, or..."

July 13, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sanctuary in the Past

In The Whispering Swarm, Michael Moorcock confronts ghosts – history's and his own – in a secret area of London

"...Disch, and others to examine contemporary morality. Michael Chabon, Cormac McCarthy, Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, and many others are..."

Jan. 23, 2015 Arts Feature by Michael Berry

The Correspondence

Austin writer Jim Lewis on how things came together in his new novel and on his current assignment in the Congo. Roger Gathman relays.

"...the fatalism, to which novelists like Faulkner and even Cormac McCarthy were as addicted as they were to whiskey,..."

Aug. 1, 2003 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

Rise and Shine

The quiet and uncalculated approach of John McManus

"...just the spirit of his Southern-powered work (Denis Johnson, Cormac McCarthy, and Breece D'J Pancake come to mind) --..."

April 25, 2003 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Judge Chip Kidd by His Covers

"...only a few. The recent books of Texas authors Cormac McCarthy and Larry McMurtry all have Kidd covers. In..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Books Feature by Cary L. Roberts

Making Lists

"...beloved Elmer Kelton and the bestselling Larry McMurtry and Cormac McCarthy, who, after all, were not household names until..."

Jan. 1, 1999 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Further Reflections

"...increasing weight of a bad joke. Likewise Rafe Greenlee's "Cormac's Trash," a 17-minute odyssey in search of reclusive El..."

March 26, 1999 Screens Feature

Top 10 Most-Read Film Reviews of 2013

Hey, 'After Earth' lands on a list that isn't worst-of-year

"...“The Pulitzer Prize-winning Cormac McCarthy, at 80, has penned an unsettling anti-noir with..."

Jan. 4, 2014 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Bedside Manner: Books In My Possession, Which I May or May Not Read

A consumer guide to recent purchases

"...The Crossing, Cormac McCarthy: Speaking of gods among men, I’ve yet to..."

Dec. 1, 2011 Books Post by Wells Dunbar

Bedside Manner: Ten Commandments

A self-described brat ponders his sleep situation

"...Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian: I generally have a tough time..."

May 24, 2011 Books Post by Doug Freeman

Haven't Seen Film, But Knows Reviewer Is Wrong

"...out of his or her depth. Anyone familiar with Cormac McCarthy's work knows The Road isn't going to be..."

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