Cormac McCarthy
Part crime story, part metaphysical exploration, the Pulitzer-prize-winning author’s first novel since “The Road” is a fascinating but sometimes uneasy mash-up of styles and ideas.
The celebrated film critic talks to The Daily Beast about his book that explores why we love disaster movies and apocalyptic scenarios, even when they invade the Oval Office.
Major news outlets were fooled into thinking the novelist had died Tuesday—the result of a prankster’s mischief and rush to publish.
Every author welcomes praise, but what’s a writer to do when readers persist in comparing him to an another author he’s not even that crazy about?
Scott Haze lived in caves for three months to prepare for his role as Cormac McCarthy’s most twisted character. He also got a little weird with his director, James Franco.
‘It felt like Faulkner and Melville but with grisly scenes of murder and atrocity that gave a contemporary and strangely authentic feel, as if McCarthy had actually been there.’
Claire Cameron, the author of the new novel The Bear, picks her favorite stories about unlikely survivors.