Reading McCarthy

The McCarthy Library Project: Books are Made Out of Books Are Made Out of Books and Still More Books

Send us Fan Mail After Cormac McCarthy’s death in June of 2023, his surviving family members were hit with a very complicated question: What in the world are we to do wi

INbetweener Episode: Reading Cormac McCarthy--Scholars Discuss the Southern Novels book released

Send us Fan Mail This isn't a full and proper READING MCCARTHY episode (and thus not numbered!) but is a brief discussion of the book adaptation of a number of podc

Episode 65: The End of Something in STELLA MARIS, with Nell Sullivan and Vernon Cisney

Send us Fan Mail With this episode, READING MCCARTHY has discussed every novel published by Cormac McCarthy.  Published in early December of 2022, STELLA MARIS was the l

Episode 64: McCarthy and Philosophy

Send us Fan Mail Last October while attending the American Literature Association fiction symposium in Santa Fe, New Mexico, I managed to sequester two live, dyed-in-the

Episode 63: A Tribute to Rick Wallach

Send us Fan Mail Rick Wallach, one of the founding members of the Cormac McCarthy Society and, indeed, of McCarthy studies in general, passed away on January 27th at the

Episode 62: Part Two--Can the Panel Redeem THE COUNSELOR?

Send us Fan Mail After a long break in which your intrepid host has contended with everything from eye surgery to accreditation, the second part of the panel discussion

Episode 61: Part One of Seeking Guidance for THE COUNSELOR

Send us Fan Mail Full disclosure time here on the READING MCCARTHY podcast.  When Ridley Scott’s film The Counselor arrived in theaters with its very own shiny McCarthy

Episode 60: Riding Shotgun on THE PASSENGER with Lydia Cooper and Brent Cline

Send us Fan Mail For the podcast's 60th episode we are finally able to develop a lengthy and thorough discussion of The Passenger, McCarthy's penultimate novel

Episode 59: The Big Screen Beckons--McCarthy's Screenplays with Stacey Peebles

Send us Fan Mail Episode 60 of READING McCARTHY sees the return of one of my favorite guests, Dr. Stacey Peebles. In addition to her many other roles described below, sh

Episode 58: Staying off the Tracks of THE SUNSET LIMITED with Dianne Luce

Send us Fan Mail The 58th episode brings back the excellent Dr. Dianne Luce to discuss with us McCarthy’s 2006 play The Sunset Limited (or is it a novel in dramatic form

Episode 57: The Wittliff with Lead Archivist Katie Salzmann

Send us Fan Mail This past December your not-so-intrepid host was able to make a pilgrimage to San Marcos, Texas, to visit the Wittliff Collection in the Alkek Library a

Episode 56: The Brothers Elmore Flip a Coin with No Country for Old Men

Send us Fan Mail This episode has a history that winds like a West Texas border road.  My guests are the Brothers Elmore, and we originally recorded it in April but one

Episode 55: Writer Ron Rash on McCarthy's Work and Influence

Send us Fan Mail Episode 55 is a discussion with award winning novelist, short story writer, poet, and big-time McCarthy fan, Ron Rash. Ron attended Gardner Webb Univers

Episode 54: Following McCarthy's Tracks with Austin Smith

Send us Fan Mail This episode of READING MCCARTHY welcomes to the podcast for the first time Austin Smith.  Austin studied history and literature at the University of Ge

Episode 53: Rambling Down THE ROAD with Bryan Vescio

Send us Fan Mail This 53rd episode of READING MCCARTHY takes a long ramble down THE ROAD, McCarthy’s 2006 Pulitzer Prize winning novel of a father and son enduring life

Episode 52: McCarthy and Hemingway

Send us Fan Mail Episode 52 is a round table considering the impact of Ernest Hemingway’s writing on the works of Cormac McCarthy.  Joining us for this discussion are Dr

Episode 51: Teaching McCarthy Round Table

Send us Fan Mail Although the fact often goes unacknowledged, it is a truth that sometimes an author’s residence within and endurance in the canon is a result of how tha

Episode 50: Barreling through No Country for Old Men with Rick Wallach

Send us Fan Mail The guest for our 50th episode is the OG himself, the redoubtable RICK WALLACH, who joins us for a rousing discussion of No Country for Old Men.  Someho

Episode 49: a Filibuster Panel on the BORDER TRILOGY

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we head across the border one more time for a consideration of the Border Trilogy as a whole.  How does knowing how the story begins and

Episode 48: Tearing Down the Walls of THE STONEMASON with Nick Monk

Send us Fan Mail The guest for this episode is Dr. Nick Monk, who joins me for a consideration of perhaps McCarthy’s most idiosyncratic work.  The 90s were an exciting t