Tag: Cormac McCarthy
2 posts tagged "Cormac McCarthy".
American novelist (1933–2023) celebrated for a stark, biblical prose style and an unflinching gaze into violence, mortality, and the indifference of the universe. His major works — Blood Meridian, No Country for Old Men, and the Pulitzer-winning The Road — are central to the blog's reading in fiction and literature and its taste for book recommendations that stare hard at meaning and its absence. The Road, a father-and-son journey through a dead world, is a meditation on love, endurance, and meaning-making at the edge of nihilism. A longtime fellow at the Santa Fe Institute, McCarthy kept unusual company with scientists, lending his fiction an undertow of cosmic and mathematical thinking.
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Cormac McCarthy's Metaphysical Horror Show
In this last-ditch diptych, your crusty 89-year-old literary grandaddy completely changes tack, holding forth on the biggest philosophical and scientific questions of our age.
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The Best of the Best Books I Read in 2023-2024
IT'S BEEN A COUPLE YEARS since I did one of these roundups, during which time book club has really lifted my reading game, and so the pool of contenders has a lot of depth this year.
