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Cormac McCarthy And 11 Other Novelists Who Wrote For The Movies

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 01.20.2012

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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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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
Dave Astor

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

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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

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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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Required Reading: Devastatingly Sad Books

flavorwire.com | Posted 07.12.2011

Read More: Ernest Hemingway, Emma Donoghue, She's Come Undone, Room, Lorrie Moore, Sad Books, The Year of Magical Thinking, Susan Sheehan, Atonement, Wally Lamb, The Road, Joan Didion, Joyce Carol Oates, A Widow?S Story, Ian McEwan, Islands in the Stream, Cormac McCarthy, Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro, Books News

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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2010 Fantastic Fest #3: All Creatures Great and Small; Zombies, Vampires, and Terrible Human Beings

Farihah Zaman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stake Land, Alamo Drafthouse, Kidnapped, Godzilla, Mad Max, Film, Monster Movies, Movies, I Spit on Your Grave, The Road, 28 Days Later, Genre Films, Austin, The Host, Monster, Fantastic Fest, Bedeviled, Rammbock, Entertainment News
Farihah Zaman

Bedeviled brings up some prickly questions about whether or not convention should be so easily accepted. How has something as disturbing as rape revenge become a "classic" of genre film?

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Movie Review: Let Me In

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Road, Cloverfield, Richard Jenkins, Matt Reeves, Vampires, Kick-Ass, True Blood, Taxi Driver, Let the Right One In, Twilight, Let Me in Movie Review, Chloe Moretz, Vampire Diaries, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

American remakes of foreign films? That would be a 'no' vote. Having said that, I can heartily recommend Let Me In, the moody, touching American remake of the Swedish vampire film, Let the Right One In, from 2008.

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Grinderman Is the First Great Band of the Anthropocene Epoch

Jillian Burt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Proposition, The Road, Joseph Campbell, John Hillcoat, 2001:a Space Odyssey, Warren Ellis, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Nick Cave, Grinderman, Arts News
Jillian Burt

Grinderman is the first great band of the Anthropocene Epoch. Their music is primal, charming and funky and their lyrics are witty observations of where we stand as a civilization at this moment in geologic time.

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Which Literary Dystopia Is Right For You?

Flavorwire | Chelsea Bauch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Road, Dystopian Future, Dystopia, George Orwell, Dystopian Books, The Giver, Books, Gary Shteyngart, The Handmaid's Tale, Books News

Call it society's weirdest guilty pleasure, but lately it seems like there are more apocalyptic fantasies than those of the fairytale variety. From zo...

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An Apocalyptic Summer Reading List

The Millions | Emily St. John Mandel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bestsellers, The Road, Apocalypse, Zombies, The Passage, Books, Vampires, Summer Reading, Justin Cronin, Cormac McCarthy, Reading, Nick Harkaway, Books News

I've long had an unhealthy interest in apocalypse. I seem not to be alone in this morbid fascination; every year new wastelands arise on screen and in...

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Gallery Lion, Wild Art

Jim McNutt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Carl Akeley, The Road, Lion, Wild at Heart, James Lippitt Clark, Gallery, Museum, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Wildlife, Savafilm, Green News
Jim McNutt

Have you ever seen a lion in a museum? In startling footage of the National Museum of Wildlife Art, a live male African lion pads through the gallerie...

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Not Be Made Right Again

Elizabeth Nicholas | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Growing Pains, Literature, The Road, Cormac McCarthy, Happiness, Healthy Living News
Elizabeth Nicholas

If we have ever spoken, ever, I have tried to persuade you to read "The Road." Friends have been subject to countless wine-infused rambles on its impo...

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Are 'We the People' Baby-Eaters from The Road?

Olivia Rosewood | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Road, Foreclosure, Bankruptcy, Cormac McCarthy the Road, Health Care Spending, Health Reform, Housing Crisis, Politics News
Olivia Rosewood

The only way I could relate to the brutality of the fictitious cannibalism of The Road was through my experience with our country's health care system.

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Post Apocalyptic Dining

Liz Neumark | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Road, Book of Eli, Post-Cataclysm, New York News
Liz Neumark

Thanksgiving eve, Sam and I went to see The Road, a story of a father and son as they travel the barren remains of the Northeast in a post apocalyptic...

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What The NYTimes Paperback Best Sellers Tell Us About Ourselves!

Eileen Stukane | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bestsellers, The Road, Bestseller List, God, Apocalypse, The Alchemist, New York Time, Zombies, The Shack, Pride and Prejudice, Nyt, Coelho, Books News
Eileen Stukane

Take a look at those capsule descriptions on the New York Times bestseller list. Without ever reading the books themselves, they tell a pretty funny story about our efforts to cope with what lies ahead.

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From No Country For Old Men To No Movie For Faith Audiences? I Don't Think So

Larry Ross | Posted 05.25.2011

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Larry Ross

On the surface, The Road has enough drama and thrills to quench the craving of any Friday night movie buff. But its greatest impact will not be on the screen, but afterwards, in discussions about the vital issues it raises.

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Cormac McCarthy's Typewriter Goes To Auction

The New York Times | PATRICIA COHEN | Posted 05.25.2011

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Cormac McCarthy has written more than a dozen novels, several screenplays, two plays, two short stories, countless drafts, letters and more -- and nea...

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Michael Kenneth Williams Talks Wonderful World and Omar of The Wire

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

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Marshall Fine

"I'm a little rusty at chess," Williams says. "Matthew [Broderick] has got me by a hair." Williams smiles at the memory -- and seems tickled simply by the fact that he's a working actor.

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The Film of Cormac McCarthy's 'The Road' Is About To Open, So I Read the Book. I'm Still Shaking.

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jesse Kornbluth

Opening soon: the movie made from the novel of The Road. I saw the preview and was impressed, so I picked up the book. And, to my surprise, it knocked me out.

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Movie Review: The Book of Eli

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Denzel Washington, Madonna, Malcolm McDowell, Frances De La Tour, Ray Stevenson, The Book of Eli Movie Review, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Isaac Hayes, Black Moses, The Road, The Road Warrior, Waterworld, Leap Year, A Boy and His Dog, Gary Oldman, The Hughes Brothers, Michael Gambon, Amy Adams, Desperately Seeking Susan, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

This is a movie that has few ideas of its own, except for one large and highly suspect central one.

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On Making The Road

John Hillcoat | Posted 05.25.2011

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John Hillcoat

The Road is the most poignant love story between a father and son that I know of, so I wanted, above all, to respect the book, to be authentic and not 'Hollywoodize' it, to use great restraint and focus upon its core qualities.

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The Must-See Environmental Movies Of The Decade (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: There Will Be Blood, The Road, Slidepoll, Ice Age, Wall-E, Erin Brockovich, Environmentalism, Green Movies, Film, Children-of-Men, Movies, Green News

The environment has been at the forefront of pop culture during the 2000's. HuffPost Green thought we'd compile some of the decade's best narrative gr...

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Viggo Mortensen Hits The Road

Jenna Busch | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jenna Busch

For Viggo Mortensen, the star of the new movie, The Road, the worst part of the demanding role was his fingernails. No mater how much he bathed, he couldn't get them clean.

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Planet Hollywood

Avital Binshtock | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: End of World, Pandora, Earth, Aliens, The Day After Tomorrow, Prophecy, Mayan, Film, Movies, Pulitzer Prize, Novel, 2012, The Road, Animated, Planet 51, Apocalypse, Humans, Independence Day, James Cameron, 3d, Cannibals, Book, Roland Emmerich, Nuclear Winter, Cormac McCarthy, Avatar, Entertainment News
Avital Binshtock

A common theme runs through several films slated to hit theaters soon: the earth and its fate. "Take heed," the filmmakers seem to be saying, "or these will be our struggles."

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Live from the Toronto Film Festival: Day 4

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Road, Ricky Gervais, Viggo Mortensen, The Invention of Lying, Toronto Film Festival, Cormac McCarthy, Marshall Fine Blog, Applause, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

Sunday in Toronto saw three films back to back that offered powerful, sometimes disturbing ruminations on the idea of family.

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2009, Apocalypse Now

Giles Slade | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Vigo Mortenson, Made to Break, Guy Pearce, Giles Slade, Godzilla, Shane Acker, Post Apocalypse, Tim Burton, Vincent Price, Ed Woods, Movies, 2012, The Road, Apocalypse, Chris Bucci, Roger Ebert, 9, Independence Day, Climate Change, Edward Scissorhands, North American Ark, Wall-E, Roland Emmerich, Cormac McCarthy, Health Care, Corpse Bride, Entertainment News
Giles Slade

The Copenhagen conference is billed as humanity's last chance to reverse climate change, but many fear we have already reached a global tipping point. Our films reflect this.

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