Cormac Mccarthy

Many Famous Authors Started With 'Novel 101'

Dave Astor | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: J.K. Rowling, Paul Bowles, Junot Diaz, Jhumpa Lahiri, Margaret Drabble, Charles Dickens, Margaret Atwood, Herman Melville, Carson McCullers, Novels, Emile Zola, J.R.R. Tolkien, Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, Debut Novels, Cormac McCarthy, Books News

Creating a novel is tough. Until you get the hang of it, it can be hard to do the Proustian thing.

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Cormac McCarthy Joins Twitter, Gets Abuse

Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Cormac Mcarthy, Famous Author on Twitter, Cormac McCarthy the Road, Famous Writer on Twitter, Cormac McCarthy, Cormac Mccarthy Twitter, Cormac Macarthy, Books News

UPDATE: It seems that the account is in fact fake. GalleyCat has the story: While the laconic writer would be a perfect fit for Twitter, the Vintag...

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Cormac McCarthy And 11 Other Novelists Who Wrote For The Movies

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 01.20.2012

Read More: The Road, Screenplays, Authors and Hollywood, No Country for Old Men, Novelists, Cormac Mccarthy Movie, Hollywood Writers, Cormac Mccarthy the Counselor, Cormac McCarthy, Slidepollajax, All the Pretty Horses, Screenwriting, The Counselor Cormac Mccarthy, Culture News

Author Cormac McCarthy's novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, routinely hit the top of the bestseller lists and have been made into Academy Award-winni...

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PHOTOS: A Rock-N-Roll Apocalypse

Posted 01.10.2012

Read More: Psychedelic Art, Daniel Richter, Regen Projects, Apocalyptic, Los Angeles Art, Woodstock, Contemporary Painting, Slidepollajax, Cormac McCarthy, Apocalypse Art, Arts News

It's 2012, and the apocalypse is on everyone's mind. But Daniel Richter's apocalyptic visions, like old-Western cinemascapes mixed with psychedelic 60...

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James Franco To Direct Cormac McCarthy Film

Posted 11.19.2011

Read More: Film Adaptation, Blood Meridian, Child of God, Gus Van Sant, General Hospital, Sal Mineo, Mccarthy, Film, James Franco, Cormac McCarthy, Franco, kink.com, Movies, Hollywood, Contemporary Novel, Arts News

James Franco's now-legendary energy showed no sign of letting up as he announced plans to direct an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel 'Child of Go...

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The Most Novels You've Read By an Author

Dave Astor | Posted 11.14.2011

My list includes the authors' names, the number of novels I've read by each of them, and my three favorite novels (in rank order) by each of them. If you have different favorites by those authors, I'd like to hear about that.

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Fifteen of This Millennium's Top Novels

Dave Astor | Posted 10.29.2011

These aren't necessarily the best novels of the past 11 years, because there are acclaimed books I've yet to read.

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If All Books Were as Violent as Cormac McCarthy Books

Dave Astor | Posted 10.17.2011

Read More: The Road, Jane Eyre, Beloved, Little Women, Waiting to Exhale, Blood Meridian, Sexism, No Country for Old Men, Violence, Racism, Goodnight Moon, Life of Pi, All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy, Dr. Seuss, U.S.-Mexican Border, Drug Wars, Books News

Yup, it would be quite a literary world if all books contained as much mayhem as Cormac McCarthy novels.

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Reading Harry Potter and Other Multi-Volume Works in One Big Gulp

Dave Astor | Posted 09.14.2011

Read More: J.K. Rowling, Jack Finney, Quidditch, Darryl Brock, John Steinbeck, L.M. Montgomery, Sequels, Alexandre Dumas, J.R.R. Tolkien, Margaret Atwood, Harry Potter, Cormac McCarthy, Books News

For me, reading a book series after all the installments have been written is as satisfying as watching a great Quidditch match. Well, almost.

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HuffPost Readers Reveal: Books They Hated That Everyone Else Loved

Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: Fight Club, Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Eat Pray Love, Slidepollajax, Twilight, The Lord of the Rings, Cormac McCarthy, Hated Books, The Great Gatsby, Running With Scissors, Video, Books News

It's okay. You can admit it. Everyone has read books that are either popular, critically acclaimed or both, but still been left pondering, "How can an...

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Placing Bets On The Nobel: Who's The Front Runner?

1 July 2011 Archive | Posted 08.31.2011

Read More: Murakama Hauki, Don Delillo, Nobel Prize, Cormac McCarthy, Literary Award, Nobel Prize Literature, Literary Prizes, Books News

True, there are only roughly 100 days left until they announce who gets the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature, but it's pretty early in the season for th...

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Top 10 Bestselling Books In Oprah’s Book Club

GalleyCat | Jason Boog on May 20, 2011 10:31 AM | Posted 07.20.2011

Read More: Bestsellers, The Road, Oprah Book Club, Oprah Winfrey, A Million Little Pieces, James Frey, Bestselling Books, Oprah's Book Club, Cormac McCarthy, Book Club, Books News

To commemorate the end of Oprah’s Book Club, the Nielsen Company has compiled a list of the top ten bestselling books from Oprah Winfrey‘s magical...

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10 Novels That Will Disturb Even The Coldest Of Hearts

flavorwire.com | Posted 07.18.2011

Read More: George R.R. Martin, Invisible Man, Henry Miller, Blindness, Blood Meridian, Bret Easton Ellis, Margaret Atwood, Ralph Ellison, American Psycho, Flannery O'Connor, J.M. Coetzee, Tropic Pof Cancer, Disgrace, Cormac McCarthy, A Good Man Is Hard to Find, The Handmaid's Tale, Disturbing Novels, Books News

Jezebel-writer Anna North’s debut novel, America Pacifica, is out today. The story centers around an impoverished teenage girl who is struggling to ...

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Required Reading: Devastatingly Sad Books

flavorwire.com | Posted 07.12.2011

We’re the first to admit that, sometimes, the best cure for a hard week, a long day or just a rainy weekend is a really sad book....

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The Island Of Herman Melville, The State Of Cormac McCarthy: Literary Map Of America

Posted 06.22.2011

Read More: Bestsellers, Authors, Literature, American Literary Map, American Writers, US Literary Map, Cormac McCarthy, American Authors, Maya Angelou, Literary Map, Books News

Would you rather live in the state of Black Elk or Maya Angelou instead of Montana or Arkansas? The island of Melville looks a little cold, so instead...

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James Franco Buys Rights To Hollywood Novel 'Zeroville'

guardian.co.uk | Ian J Griffiths | Posted 06.01.2011

Read More: As I Lay Dying, Steve Erickson, Zeroville, Blood Meridian, Yale University, James Franco Movie Rights, William Faulkner, James Franco, Cormac McCarthy, Books News

It looks like James Franco has been reading again, because he has bought the film rights to Zeroville, Steve Erickson's darkly comic novel about Holly...

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Jim Tressel's Road Taken

Jon Kerr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ncaa, Ohio State University, Cormac McCarthy, College Football, Sports News

Jim Tressel chose his path. When he took the Ohio State job in 2001, he made the conscious decision to thrust himself into a world where doing what's right is the actions of fools.

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Top 10 Slang Narratives: From Pigeon English To "Milk-Plus"

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Huckleberry Finn, As I Lay Dying, James Joyce, Slang Books, Wuthering Heights, William Faulkner, Clockwork Orange, Trainspotting, Mark Twain, Cormac McCarthy, Slidepollajax, Finnegan's Wake, Books News

From Flavorwire: By Kathleen Massara Dialect can be used as a class marker, or as something that identifies your hometown, your race, or your pr...

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Looking For Great Books For Your LIbrary? Try 4 Decades Of NBCC Winners (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Zoe Triska | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bestsellers, Images, Toni Morrison, Ian McEwan, Literary Prizes, Nbcc, National Book Critics Circle, Cormac McCarthy, Slidepollajax, Philip Roth, Books News

The National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Awards have been around since the 1970s and the winners over the decades make an impressive recommended readin...

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Big Questions Of Faith In HBO's 'The Sunset Limited'

Cathleen Falsani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Samuel L. Jackson, Pulp Fiction, Faith in Film, Cormac McCarthy, Civil Discourse, The Sunset Limited, Tommy Lee Jones, Religion News

Art is maddeningly dynamic. It does not, and will not, mean the same thing to one person as it does to another. There's no finer example of this than the recent HBO film The Sunset Limited.

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PHOTOS: Leighton Meester, Kelly Choi & Minka Kelly Hit The Town

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nyc Parties, Kelly Choi, Daily Photo, Slidepollajax, NY Around Town, Empire State Run Up, Cormac McCarthy, Ny Parties, New York News

A little ice storm won't stop New Yorkers from going out. Yesterday was the annual Empire State Run-Up, where runners race up the stairs of the icon...

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Spontaneous Combustion And Accidental Circumcision:

The Huffington Post | Zoe Triska | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, American Psycho, Charles Dickens, Shakespeare, Red Dragon, Grapes of Wrath, Cormac McCarthy, Weird Moments in Literature, Books News

There are countless weird moments to be found in literature and after reaching out to readers we're not sure which minds were weirder--the ones that w...

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James Franco Set For Major Directing Debut

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: As I Lay Dying, Academy Awards, 127 Hours, Pineapple Express, James Franco, Cormac McCarthy, Oscars 2011, Faulkner, Movies, Entertainment News

Being a Golden Globe-nominated actor, Oscar host, published author, graduate student, concept artist and painter just isn't enough! Now, James Franco ...

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Con Games: How Charles Dickens Saved My Life

Michael Conniff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Novels, Charles Dickens, Novelists, Cormac McCarthy, Reading, Fiction, Denver News

David Copperfield brought me back to life as a lover of the made-up story. The moment I had finished page 734 I went to the list of classic novels on the facing page to choose my next flight.

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Reckoning Theatre: Big Questions, Small Casts in 2 Bay Area Shows

Lauren Gunderson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Theatre, Bill Cain, SF PLayhouse, Marin Theatre Company, Political Theatre, Faith, Cormac McCarthy, San Francisco, Religious Skepticism, Bay Area, Arts News

I was going to save my continuing exploration of the term "political play" for Berkeley Rep's upcoming (and highly anticipated) The Great Game: Afghan...

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