Reading McCarthy
51 episodes - English - Latest episode: 14 days ago - ★★★★★ - 113 ratingsREADING MCCARTHY is a podcast devoted to the consideration and discussion of the works of one of our greatest American writers, Cormac McCarthy. Each episode will call upon different well-known Cormackian readers and scholars to help us explore different works and various essential aspects of McCarthy’s writing. (Note these episodes try to offer accessible literary criticism and may contain spoilers from different McCarthy works.)
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Episode 50: Barreling through No Country for Old Men with Rick Wallach
April 05, 2024 19:00 - 1 hour - 48.2 MBThe 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. Somehow both Batman and Godzilla are referenced as we consider both the novel and the Coen Bros. film. Rick Wallach has recently retired from teaching English at the University of Miami. He is a founder of the Cormac McCarthy society, the senior and primary editor of the Cormac McCarthy Society casebook series, and editor of the two-volume collec...
Episode 49: a Filibuster Panel on the BORDER TRILOGY
January 16, 2024 22:00 - 1 hour - 52.8 MBIn 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 ends change how we read any of the different parts? My guests on this filibuster over the border include Dr. Nell Sullivan, a Kentuckian who earned her BA in English from Vanderbilt University and earned her PhD from Rice University. She is currently Professor of English at University of Houston-Downtown, where she teaches courses in Ameri...
Episode 48: Tearing Down the Walls of THE STONEMASON with Nick Monk
December 16, 2023 02:00 - 1 hour - 43.4 MBThe 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 time for McCarthy fans. In 92 he published the award winning All the Pretty Horses, followed two years later by the next installment in the Border Trilogy, The Crossing. Before he would go on to close out the trilogy in 98, however, in 1995 he also published a strange and fascinating play, The Stonemason. The play is about the Telfairs, a fam...
Episode 47: McCarthy and Disability with Brent Cline
November 14, 2023 01:00 - 1 hour - 48 MBEpisode 47 of READING MCCARTHY considers the author’s references to and uses of disability in its many forms. My guest DR BRENT CLINE. He has published articles and chapters involving disability on Walker Percy, James Agee, and Daniel Keyes. His review of The Passenger/Stella Maris was published with The University Bookman. He teaches a seminar on McCarthy every two years. As always, readers should beware: there be spoilers here. Thanks to Thomas Frye, who composed, performed, and produ...
Episode 46: Crossing the CITIES OF THE PLAIN with Bryan Vescio
October 03, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 45.4 MBIn this episode we ride to the end of the road in the last episode of the Border Trilogy, CITIES ON THE PLAIN. My guest for this foray is Dr. Bryan Vescio, Professor and Chair of English at High Point University in North Carolina. A guest on former episodes on faith and Suttree, Dr. Vescio is the author of the 2014 book Reconstruction in Literary Studies: An Informalist Approach, as well as numerous articles on American authors including Mark Twain, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Nathan...
Episode 45: Tribute to McCarthy Part 3
September 11, 2023 21:00 - 1 hour - 63.9 MBThis is our final of 3 tribute episodes in the wake of Cormac McCarthy's passing this past June. Guests on this final tribute episode include: Dr. Steven Frye, professor and chair of English at California State University in Bakersfield. Steve has just stepped down as President of the Cormac McCarthy Society. He is the author of Understanding Cormac McCarthy (Univ. of South Carolina Press) and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Cormac McCarthy, and Cambridge UP’s Cormac McCarthy in Con...
Episode 44: Tribute to Cormac, part the second.
August 16, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 42.1 MBIn the wake of Cormac McCarthy's passing on June 13, 2023, a number of excellent tributes and discussion pieces were published. In this second of three tribute episode, we've asked for permission for the authors to read some of those tributes to McCarthy here on the podcast and we have also solicited a couple of others. The guests this episode include: Stacey Peebles, Chair of the English program, Director of Film Studies, and the Marlene and David Grissom Professor of Humanities at C...
Episode 43: Tribute to McCarthy, Part the First
July 29, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 67.2 MBOn June 13, 2023, we lost a literary giant. Cormac McCarthy, the greatest writer of our time (in this podcast's completely unbiased opinion) passed away in Santa Fe, New Mexico, his home these past couple of decades. E-mails and queries started pouring in, mostly asking, "are you going to do a special tribute podcast? And the answer to that, is yes. Episode 43 is the first of 3 planned tribute episodes to McCarthy. Joining us for this first panel is a roundup of some of the usual suspe...
Episode 42: Fly them, Cormac. 16 Responses to "What is your favorite McCarthy novel, and why?"
June 19, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour - 53.6 MBLike the rest of the world I learned this past Tuesday, June 13th, that Cormac McCarthy had passed away at the age of 89. This episode had already been recorded, but I thought it would still serve as an initial and quick response to the need to offer a tribute: it's a compilation of the responses to the question What's your favorite McCarthy novel, and why? from the podcast's first 16 guests. The guests responding to the "favorite book and why" question this episode are: Steven Frye, D...
Episode 41: Over the Border Again with the Bros. Elmore: Part 2 on THE CROSSING
May 31, 2023 19:00 - 38 minutes - 26.6 MBEpisode 41 is our second excursion over the border as the Brothers Elmore and I finish our conversation about THE CROSSING. Returning as the guests are twin scholars Jonathan and Rick Elmore. That's right, twins. Jonathan Elmore is Associate Professor of English at Savannah State University and the Managing Editor of Watchung Review.. He is the editor of Fiction and the Sixth Mass Extinction: Narrative in an Era of Loss (Lexington) and co-author of An Introduction to African and Afro-Dias...
Episode 40: A rough ride into THE CROSSING with Jonathan and Rick Elmore PART I
May 12, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour - 44.4 MBEpisode 40 is a long ride through rough country as we dig into The CROSSING, McCarthy's masterful middle volume in the Border Trilogy. My guests today are twin scholars Jonathan and Rick Elmore. That's right, twins. Jonathan Elmore is Associate Professor of English at Savannah State University and the Managing Editor of Watchung Review.. He is the editor of Fiction and the Sixth Mass Extinction: Narrative in an Era of Loss (Lexington) and co-author of An Introduction to African and Afro-D...
Episode 39: Riding into the Evening Reddit in the West with Joe Parslow
April 27, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 50.5 MBCormac still types his novels on an Olivetti typewriter and your host can't figure out Facebook. So for Episode 39 we bring in some expert help in the form of a lively discussion with Redditor supreme Joe Parslow. He has moderated the Cormac McCarthy subreddit for over a decade and has seen it grow from its first post in April 2012 to its current position as the largest online community devoted to the works of Cormac McCarthy. In March 2023 the membership of the subreddit approached 12,00...
Episode 38: Covering the UK Book Beat: George Berridge of the Times Literary Supplement
March 24, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 49.4 MBToday's guest is George Berridge. George began academic life as a journalist but like Hank Williams saw the light and also began digging deeply into American Literature. He's now the American Literature editor of the Times Literary Supplement. He lives and works in London. His exceptional review of THE PASSENGER and STELLA MARIS was published in October of last year. He joins me in a nice conversation about the role of the literary critic in modern journalism (with of course a focus on th...
Episode 37: Another Roundup of All the Pretty Horses, with Steven Frye and Stacey Peebles
February 26, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 66.5 MBFrequent guests Steven Frye and Stacey Peebles join me for another roundup of All the Pretty Horses, the National Book Award winning novel which finally forced the literary world to sit up and take notice of McCarthy. We climb on and hold tight for this ride through this incredible novel. Stacey Peebles is Chair of the English program, Director of Film Studies, and the Marlene and David Grissom Professor of Humanities at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. She is the author of Welcome...
Episode 36: McCarthy's Knoxville with Wes Morgan
January 11, 2023 21:00 - 56 minutes - 38.8 MBLike Cormac McCarthy, Wes Morgan was born in the North—Albany, New York rather than Rhode Island—but came south at the age of 4. Wes grew up in Atlanta and earned BS degrees in Physics and Applied Psychology at Georgia Tech. In 1962 Wes moved to Knoxville and began working on his doctorate in psychology. He went on to work as a staff psychologist at Palo Alto Veterans Administration Hospital in California, where he met Marian, who would become his wife, Wes and his family returned to Knox...
Episode 35: Crossing the border on ALL THE PRETTY HORSES with Allen Josephs
December 19, 2022 19:00 - 59 minutes - 41.2 MBEpisode 35 takes a first ride across the border with the novel that would elevate McCarthy's profile and career. All the Pretty Horses won McCarthy the National Book Award following its publication in 1992 and was McCarthy's first best-selling novel. Our guest for this episode is Dr. Allen Josephs. A Hemingway scholar as well as a Cormackian, Allen Josephs is a past president of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Society and a past president of the South Atlantic Modern Language Associatio...
Episode 34: Listening in on STELLA MARIS
December 08, 2022 14:00 - 26 minutes - 18.1 MBSome six weeks or so after the publication of McCarthy's first novel in 16 years, The Passenger, we have its slim companion volume, the little sister, if you will, Stella Maris. In this brief review, I again forego the normal conversation format to offer a quick first-take review of the newest McCarthy novel, one that many presume will be the last book of his published in his lifetime. The novel is composed of the recording of 7 interviews conducted with Alicia Western, genius and sister t...
Episode 33: McCarthy and the Animal Kingdom, with Wallis Sanborn
November 22, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour - 50.3 MBThis episode is a thorough discussion of McCarthy's use of the animal kingdom in his works. My guest in this episode is Wallis Sanborn, Chair of the Department of English, Mass Communication, and Drama, and Graduate Program Head of the Master of Arts-Master of Fine Arts in Literature, Creative Writing, and Social Justice Program at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, Texas. Dr. Sanborn is the author of Animals in the Fiction of Cormac McCarthy (2006) and The American Novel of...
Episode 32: Riding Along with THE PASSENGER
October 25, 2022 18:00 - 30 minutes - 21.1 MBAfter a sixteen year wait, we finally have a new novel by Cormac McCarthy grasped in our greedy little podcasting clutches. In this episode of the podcast, we break with form a bit. There's no guest discussion this episode; instead we offer a quick review of THE PASSENGER. Is it completely correct to call it McCarthy's "new novel" since we know he's been working on it since at least the early 90s? Has the wait been worth it? Will this prove a worthy finale to a remarkable career? Do yo...
Episode 31: McCarthy and Irish Writers with Richard Russell
October 10, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour - 49.9 MBThis episode delves again into McCarthy's roots as we consider his intersections with Irish literature. The guest in this episode is Tennessean by birth and now fully Texified, Richard R. Russell is Professor of English and director of graduate programs at Baylor University. He earned an M Phil at the University of Glasgow and his MA and PhD from the U of North Carolina. Books include Seamus Heaney: A Critical Introduction, Edinburgh University Press, Seamus Heaney's Regions. University o...
Episode 30: Blood Meridian Round Table Part 2
August 24, 2022 15:00 - 44 minutes - 30.4 MBThe second part of our wonderful panel discussion of Cormac McCarthy’s masterful and shattering novel Blood Meridian. Our returning guests include: Steve Frye, who is professor and chair of English at California State University, Bakersfield and President of the Cormac McCarthy Society. He is the author of Understanding Cormac McCarthy (Univ. of South Carolina Press) and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Cormac McCarthy, and Cambridge UP’s Cormac McCarthy in Context. He has written num...
Episode 29: BLOOD MERIDIAN panel, Part I
August 09, 2022 20:00 - 54 minutes - 37.8 MBThree returning guests join us for this first part of our interesting and engaging discussion of Cormac McCarthy’s magnum opus Blood Meridian. Steve Frye is professor and chair of English at California State University, Bakersfield and President of the Cormac McCarthy Society. He is the author of Understanding Cormac McCarthy (Univ. of South Carolina Press) and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Cormac McCarthy, and Cambridge UP’s Cormac McCarthy in Context. He has written numerous journa...
Episode 28: McCarthy's Women Characters with Nell Sullivan
July 23, 2022 14:00 - 1 hour - 44.5 MBEpisode 28 brings back previous guest Nell Sullivan to discuss a thorny subject: McCarthy’s women characters, with digressions into the ways the author tiptoes through the landscape of homosocial desire. Nell Sullivan earned a BA in English from Vanderbilt University and earned her PhD in English from Rice University. She is currently Professor of English at University of Houston-Downtown, where she teaches courses in American literature and the literature of the American South. A former ...
Episode 27: McCarthy and Race with Lydia Cooper
June 16, 2022 14:00 - 1 hour - 53.5 MBEpisode 27 of READING MCCARTHY is a thorough consideration of Race in the Works of Cormac McCarthy. The guest for this thoughtful and engaging discussion is Lydia Cooper; Dr. Cooper is a professor of American literature at Creighton University. Her specializations include Native American literature, Western and Southwestern literature, gender studies, and Cormac McCarthy. Her most recent book is Cormac McCarthy: A Complexity Theory of Literature, published by Manchester University Press. O...
Episode 26: Turnabout, or, the Evening Redness in the Face, or Josyph Takes the Reins
May 26, 2022 17:00 - 1 hour - 59 MBEverything is topsy-turvy for this episode as returning guest Peter Josyph seizes control of the station and turns the tables on your regular host Scott Yarbrough, interviewing him. Regular host Scott Yarbrough is the co-author of A Practical Introduction to Literary Study, co-editor with Rick Wallach of the two volume Carrying the Fire casebook collections of essays on The Road, and author of numerous essays on McCarthy, Faulkner, Hemingway, and others. Peter Josyph is an Author, Actor, A...
Episode 25: They Rode On: Plumbing the BLOOD MERIDIAN with Stacey Peebles
May 05, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour - 57.5 MBOur returning guest for READING MCCARTHY is Stacey Peebles. On this 25th episode of the podcast we venture out into the Darkening World to Come and Ride into the Evening Redness in the West. Yes, that’s right—this is our first full-length consideration of McCarthy’s masterpiece, Blood Meridian. Dr. Peebles is Chair of the English program, Director of Film Studies, and the Marlene and David Grissom Professor of Humanities at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. She is the author of Welco...
Episode 24: Wrangling with Wallach: An Interview with Rick Wallach, critic, scholar, editor and co-founder of the McCarthy Society
April 03, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour - 51.2 MBThe guest for Episode 24 of READING MCCARTHY needs no introduction to any member of the Cormac McCarthy Society, visitors to the CormacMccarthy.com forums, or readers of McCarthy Criticism. One of the founders of the Cormac McCarthy society, Rick Wallach survived a degree in theology and years teaching English in Miami, Florida, and is a founding member of the Cormac McCarthy Society. He is senior editor of the Cormac McCarthy Soci ety casebook series, and editor of the two-volume collectio...
Episode 23: Reading McCarthy with Audiobook Narrator RICHARD POE
March 04, 2022 19:00 - 46 minutes - 31.7 MBEpisode 23 of READING MCCARTHY brings us a great discussion with actor and audiobook narrator Richard Poe. Poe is known to McCarthy fans as the audiobook narrator of McCarthy’s masterwork Blood Meridian. Richard Poe has been a professional actor since 1970, when he left the army and was soon drafted into the chorus of William Ball’s production of Oedipus Rex at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. Later that year he was cast as Rosencrantz in a production of Hamlet starring ...
Episode 22: SUTTREE Round Table Part 2
February 19, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 66.2 MBThis is the second part of the round table discussion of one of McCarthy’s masterworks, the 1979 novel Suttree. The guests for this wonderful discussion include Dianne Luce, who previously appeared in episodes about The Orchard Keeper and Suttree. Dr. Luce is a founding member and past president of the Cormac McCarthy Society. Together with Edwin Arnold, she has edited two collections of articles on McCarthy, and she is the author of Reading the World: Cormac McCarthy’s Tennessee Period...
Episode 21: Suttree Round Table, Part 1
January 07, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour - 43.2 MBWe kick off Season 2 of READING McCARTHY with a very special episode. Instead of having only one guest today, we’ll have three in the first part of a round table discussion of one of McCarthy’s masterworks, SUTTREE. As part of the round table we welcome back our guest Dianne Luce, who previously appeared in episodes about The Orchard Keeper and Suttree. Dr. Luce is a founding member and past president of the Cormac McCarthy Society. Together with Edwin Arnold, she has edited two coll...
Episode 20: McCarthy and Irish Catholicism in the South with Bryan Giemza
December 13, 2021 00:00 - 55 minutes - 37.9 MBEpisode 20 brings back guest Bryan Giemza in a discussion which begins as a consideration of McCarthy and Irish Catholicism in the American South and ends with a quick dip into one of McCarthy’s less revered works, The Counselor. Dr. Bryan Giemza is an Associate Professor of Humanities and Literature in the Honors College at Texas Tech University. In addition to his teaching and research he serves as public scholar for the Sowell Family Collection in Literature, Community and the Natural W...
Episode 19: Meanderings with Peter Josyph, Part 2
November 12, 2021 20:00 - 47 minutes - 32.8 MBThis episode is Part TWO of my excellent wandering conversation with the energetic and versatile Peter Josyph. Author, Actor, Artist, Auteur, and more, Peter Josyph’s books include The Wrong Reader’s Guide to Cormac McCarthy: All the Pretty Horses; Adventures in Reading Cormac McCarthy; Cormac McCarthy’s House: Reading McCarthy Without Walls; Liberty Street: Encounters at Ground Zero; The Way of the Trumpet; What One Man Said to Another: Talks With Richard Selzer; and The Wounded River, whi...
Episode 18: Peter Josyph, Man of Many Talents and McCarthy Aficionado, Part 1
October 22, 2021 21:00 - 1 hour - 45.8 MBThe guest for Episode 18 is so interesting and diverse that he has sprawled into two episodes! Author, Actor, Artist, Auteur, and more, Peter Josyph’s books include The Wrong Reader’s Guide to Cormac McCarthy: All the Pretty Horses; Adventures in Reading Cormac McCarthy; Cormac McCarthy’s House: Reading McCarthy Without Walls; Liberty Street: Encounters at Ground Zero; The Way of the Trumpet; What One Man Said to Another: Talks With Richard Selzer; and The Wounded River, which was a New Yo...
Episode 17: Searching for SUTTREE with Dianne Luce
September 17, 2021 21:00 - 1 hour - 61.4 MBEpisode 17 is an epic consideration of McCarthy’s first great epic novel, Suttree. Our returning guest is Dr. Dianne Luce. Dianne Luce is a founding member and past president of the Cormac McCarthy Society. She has co-edited two collections of articles on McCarthy, and she is the author of Reading the World: Cormac McCarthy’s Tennessee Period (2009). Recently she has been writing a two-volume study of McCarthy’s writing life at Random House through examination of archival research. She h...
Episode 16: Michael Crews and McCarthy's Literary Influences
August 27, 2021 13:00 - 38 minutes - 26.5 MBOur guest for Episode 16 is Michael Crews, author of Books are Made out of Books: A guide to Cormac McCarthy’s Literary Influences, published by the University of Texas Press in 2017. Dr. Crews is an Associate Professor of English and chair of English and Communication Studies at Regents University. He explains his work delving into the McCarthy archives of the Wittliff Collection in his quest for the writers and texts who have influenced the works of Cormac McCarthy. Thanks to Thomas F...
Episode 15: The Gardener's Son with Stacey Peebles
August 06, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 47.7 MBEpisode 15 is a dive into McCarthy’s first produced and published screenplay, The Gardener’s Son. The guest on this episode is Dr. Stacey Peebles, Chair of the English program, Director of Film Studies, and the Marlene and David Grissom Professor of Humanities at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. She is the author of Welcome to the Suck: Narrating the American Soldier's Experience in Iraq (2011) and Cormac McCarthy and Performance: Page, Stage, Screen (2017). She is editor of the colle...
Episode 14: McCarthy and Faith with Bryan Vescio
July 23, 2021 11:00 - 47 minutes - 32.7 MBEpisode 14 is a consideration of McCarthy and faith. Today’s guest Dr. Bryan Vescio is Professor and Chair of English at High Point University in North Carolina. He has previously taught at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Missouri Southern State University, and DePaul University. He is the author of the 2014 book Reconstruction in Literary Studies: An Informalist Approach, as well as numerous articles on American authors including Mark Twain, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, and N...
Episode 13: A Look Behind the Curtains with Marty Priola
July 09, 2021 13:00 - 56 minutes - 39.1 MBEpisode 13 of READING MCCARTHY is a look behind the curtains of the Cormac McCarthy Society’s webpage with webmaster, writers, critic, book collector, and aficionado Marty Priola. Mary Priola holds a bachelor’s degree from Christian Brothers University and a JD from the University of Memphis. He has written two entries on McCarthy for the DICTIONARY OF LITERARY BIOGRAPHY. His writing is also featured in exchanges with Peter Josyph in CORMAC MCCARTHY’S HOUSE: READING MCCARTHY WITHOUT WALLS...
Episode 12: Faulkner and McCarthy, with Jay Watson
June 18, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour - 41.4 MBEpisode 12 of READING MCCARTHY is a thorough rumination of the influences of Nobel Prize winner William Faulkner on the works and style of Cormac McCarthy. Our guest today is Faulkner scholar and critic Dr. Jay Watson. Jay Watson is Distinguished Professor of English and Howry Professor of Faulkner Studies at the University of Mississippi, where he also directs the annual Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha conference. He is author or editor of thirteen books, most recently a monograph, WILLIAM FA...
Episode 11: Checking out CHILD OF GOD with Bill Hardwig
June 04, 2021 16:00 - 56 minutes - 39 MBEpisode 11 of READING MCCARTHY is a deep consideration of perhaps McCarthy’s most troubling novel, CHILD OF GOD. Our guest today is Dr. Bill Hardwig, who was with us before for a discussion of the southern gothic. Bill Hardwig is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Tennessee. His book Upon Provincialism: Southern Literature and National Periodical Culture, 1870-1900 was published by the University of Virginia Press in 2013. He has edited critical editions of In the ...
Episode 10: McCarthy Translator Paulo Faria
May 21, 2021 18:00 - 44 minutes - 30.7 MBEpisode 10 of Reading McCarthy welcomes as a guest McCarthy’s translator into Portuguese, Paulo Faria. Paulo Faria was born in 1967, in Lisbon, Portugal. He graduated in Biology and teaches science, but he always had a passion for literature. He became a literary translator as a young man. In 2016 he published his first novel, «Strange war of common use», and his third novel has just been published in Portugal. He has translated each of McCarthy’s novels into Portuguese. This wide-ranging ...
Episode 9: Melville and McCarthy with Steven Frye
May 07, 2021 22:00 - 55 minutes - 38.1 MBREADING MCCARTHY is a podcast devoted to the consideration and discussion of the works of one of our greatest American writers, Cormac McCarthy. Each episode calls upon different well-known Cormackian readers and scholars to help us explore different works and various essential aspects of McCarthy’s writing. Scott Yarbrough is your host in these deep dives into the world of McCarthy. Episode 9 of Reading McCarthy welcomes back Dr. Steven Frye in a consideration of the influence of Americ...
Episode 8: The Cormac McCarthy Journal with Stacey Peebles
April 23, 2021 15:00 - 37 minutes - 26.1 MBREADING MCCARTHY is a podcast devoted to the consideration and discussion of the works of one of our greatest American writers, Cormac McCarthy. Stacey Peebles joins the podcast for this episode. Dr. Peebles is Chair of the English program, Director of Film Studies, and the Marlene and David Grissom Professor of Humanities at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. She is the author of Welcome to the Suck: Narrating the American Soldier's Experience in Iraq (published in 2011) and Cormac Mc...
Episode 7: Dennis McCarthy, Author of The Gospel According to Billy the Kid and brother to Cormac
April 09, 2021 17:00 - 59 minutes - 41.1 MBREADING MCCARTHY is a podcast devoted to the consideration and discussion of the works of one of our greatest American writers, Cormac McCarthy. Each episode calls upon different well-known Cormackian readers and scholars (and occasional other folks of interest) to help us explore different works and various essential aspects of McCarthy’s writing. Scott Yarbrough is your host in these deep dives into the world of McCarthy. The guest for this episode is a different member of the McCarth...
Episode 7: Dennis McCarthy, Author of The Gospel of Billy the Kid and brother to Cormac
April 09, 2021 17:00 - 59 minutes - 41.1 MBREADING MCCARTHY is a podcast devoted to the consideration and discussion of the works of one of our greatest American writers, Cormac McCarthy. Each episode calls upon different well-known Cormackian readers and scholars (and occasional other folks of interest) to help us explore different works and various essential aspects of McCarthy’s writing. Scott Yarbrough is your host in these deep dives into the world of McCarthy. The guest for this episode is a different member of the McCarth...
Episode 6: McCarthy and Southern Literature with Bryan Giemza
March 26, 2021 15:00 - 52 minutes - 36 MBREADING MCCARTHY is a podcast devoted to the consideration and discussion of the works of one of our greatest American writers, Cormac McCarthy. Each episode calls upon different well-known Cormackian readers and scholars to help us explore different works and various essential aspects of McCarthy’s writing. Scott Yarbrough is your host in these deep dives into the world of McCarthy. This episode is a consideration of McCarthy in the context of Southern Literature. Today’s guest is Brya...
Episode 5: Reading Outer Dark with Nell Sullivan
March 12, 2021 19:00 - 41 minutes - 28.4 MBREADING MCCARTHY is a podcast devoted to the consideration and discussion of the works of one of our greatest American writers, Cormac McCarthy. Each episode calls upon different well-known Cormackian readers and scholars to help us explore different works and various essential aspects of McCarthy’s writing. Scott Yarbrough is your host in these deep dives into the world of McCarthy. This episode is a consideration of McCarthy’s second novel, Outer Dark. Our guest is Nell Sullivan. Dr....
Episode 4: Southern Gothic and the Grotesque in McCarthy, with Bill Hardwig
February 26, 2021 19:00 - 36 minutes - 24.9 MBREADING MCCARTHY is a podcast devoted to the consideration and discussion of the works of one of our greatest American writers, Cormac McCarthy. Each episode calls upon different well-known Cormackian readers and scholars to help us explore different works and various essential aspects of McCarthy’s writing. Scott Yarbrough is your host in these deep dives into the world of McCarthy. This episode considers the Southern Gothic and the Grotesque as it relates to the work of Cormac McCarthy...
Episode 3: Reading The Orchard Keeper, with Dianne Luce
February 12, 2021 18:00 - 45 minutes - 31.2 MBREADING MCCARTHY is a podcast devoted to the consideration and discussion of the works of one of our greatest American writers, Cormac McCarthy. Each episode calls upon different well-known Cormackian readers and scholars to help us explore different works and various essential aspects of McCarthy’s writing. Scott Yarbrough is your host in these deep dives into the world of McCarthy. Episode 3 is a thorough consideration of McCarthy’s first novel, The Orchard Keeper. Our guest from Epis...
Episode 2: Approaching The Orchard Keeper
January 29, 2021 15:00 - 27 minutes - 19.2 MBREADING MCCARTHY is a podcast devoted to the consideration and discussion of the works of one of our greatest American writers, Cormac McCarthy. Each episode calls upon different well-known Cormackian readers and scholars to help us explore different works and various essential aspects of McCarthy’s writing. Scott Yarbrough is your host in these deep dives into the world of McCarthy. This second episode is in preparation of delving into McCarthy’s first novel, The Orchard Keeper. The g...