Cormac McCarthy

I ordered David Markson’s Reader’s Block from my local book shop, and intended to get it—and only it—this Saturday. Somehow I took a detour through the film section and picked up the Žižek and didn’t put it back; in the same section I also picked up McCarthy’s screenplay The Gardener’s Son, which is the only thing I haven’t read by him to date, so I picked it up too. So there you go.Tagged: Art, Books Acquired, Cormac McCarthy, David Douglas Duncan, David Markson, Gertrude Stein, Last Novel...Read Full Story

B.R. Myers, in his book “A Reader’s Manifesto”, took to task what he called “pretentiousness in contemporary literary fiction”, singling out a number of highly regarded authors to make his point.  One of the authors he singles out to “prove” his point is Cormac McCarthy, who he dismisses as being nothing more than a genre writer with “stylistic gimmicks” (implied by his assertion that  he is essentially nothing more than a literary Louis L’Amour, author of pulp Westerns.)  When I read this...Read Full Story

I am busy researching the followup story to Playing with the Dragon: Who is looking after Canadian interests while China outwits our governments?   Clearly, Harry has been kind enough to provide you all with some entertainment while I do so…he’s looking rather pallid these days, don’t you think? Whatever could be bothering him? Enjoy!  Filed under: bc politics, Blogroll, humour, Laila Yuile, Laila Yuile Photography Portfolio, politics Tagged: bc liberals, christy clark, Harry BloyRead Full Story

If you haven’t read any of Cormac McCarthy’s works, chances are you saw one of his works being adapted into a movie. The Road, Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses, and No Country for Old Men are novels that have been turned into movies. Now one of McCarthy’s newest pieces will be turned into a movie yet again, only thing is, the acclaimed novelist wrote a screenplay. According to Deadline, Cormac McCarthy’s first screenplay, titled The Counselor, has been purchased by the producers of The...Read Full Story

This kind of news couldn’t be any better.  Ridley Scott is considering to direct The Counselor from Cormac McCarthy.  Freeze-frame fist pump!  Scott plans to follow up with the Pulitzer Prize-winning author McCarthy (the writer behind No Country For Old Men, The Road, All the Pretty Horses), who sold The Counselor film rights to his first spec screenplay to The Road producing team of Nick Wechsler and Steve and Paula Mae Schwartz. Scott has been thinking of directing a historical epic about...Read Full Story

Blood Meridian is a blood-soaked, bloodthirsty bastard of a book, and certainly the most violent piece of literature I’ve read outside of the Bible and certain Greek tragedies. Cormac McCarthy’s 1985 novel passes itself off as a Western–and it is a Western, to be sure–but more than anything, it’s a brutal horror story. Set predominantly in the 1850s, Blood Meridian chronicles the westward journey of a protagonist we know only as “the kid.” After a few false starts (including getting shot...Read Full Story

Back in January it was reported that Cormac McCarthy, author of books that would one day become movies such as No Country For Old Men and The Road, had sold his first spec script, titled The Counselor. You might not expect to hear about such a project again for an extended period of time while it's being developed and pieces are put into place, but instead the movie progresses rapidly. [...]Read Full Story

You might not be familiar with the name Cormac McCarthy, however if I mention films like The Road and No Country For Old Men things might become a little clearer.  In fact he’s the award winning author on whose work those films are based.  Famous for his fascinating portrayals of America, and a disturbing lack of punctuation, the author seems to be taking a step closer to film with his latest project.  In a surprise move he has produced a script as oppose to a novel for his next project.  The...Read Full Story

Big congratulations to Michael Cooke, a librarian from Flower Mound, Texas who is the winner of our Blood Meridian contest. Michael will receive a copy of the 25th anniversary hardback edition of Cormac McCarthy’s seminal anti-Western/awesome Western courtesy Biblioklept and Modern Library. Michael had the unfair advantage of being from Texas, and he totally cheated by sending in a baker’s dozen postcards, which was totally awesome. Cheating and being evil is the core of Blood Meridian. Each...Read Full Story

Fucking brilliant.  What else can I say?  This novel positively blew my mind.  There are some similarities between this and his last novel “The Road” but stylistically it is very different.  McCarthy paints a very very bleak and dark world here, even more so than his last novel to date.  The story here is very simple but it’s what is lying underneath that makes this the brilliant novel that it is.  Heavily existential with many allusions to Greek myth and the Bible, and its “Faulkner-esque...Read Full Story