Latest Cormac Podcast Episodes
Episode 50: Barreling through No Country for Old Men with Rick Wallach
Reading McCarthy - April 05, 2024 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 113 ratingsThe 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 teachin...
Episode 49: a Filibuster Panel on the BORDER TRILOGY
Reading McCarthy - January 16, 2024 22:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 113 ratingsIn 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 e...
Episode 48: Tearing Down the Walls of THE STONEMASON with Nick Monk
Reading McCarthy - December 16, 2023 02:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 113 ratingsThe 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 Bord...
Episode 47: McCarthy and Disability with Brent Cline
Reading McCarthy - November 14, 2023 01:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 113 ratingsEpisode 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 publis...
Episode 46: Crossing the CITIES OF THE PLAIN with Bryan Vescio
Reading McCarthy - October 03, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 113 ratingsIn 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 ...
Episode 45: Tribute to McCarthy Part 3
Reading McCarthy - September 11, 2023 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 113 ratingsThis 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...
Episode 44: Tribute to Cormac, part the second.
Reading McCarthy - August 16, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 113 ratingsIn 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 sol...
Episode 43: Tribute to McCarthy, Part the First
Reading McCarthy - July 29, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 113 ratingsOn 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...
Episode 42: Fly them, Cormac. 16 Responses to "What is your favorite McCarthy novel, and why?"
Reading McCarthy - June 19, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 113 ratingsLike 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 respons...
Episode 41: Over the Border Again with the Bros. Elmore: Part 2 on THE CROSSING
Reading McCarthy - May 31, 2023 19:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 113 ratingsEpisode 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 a...
Episode 40: A rough ride into THE CROSSING with Jonathan and Rick Elmore PART I
Reading McCarthy - May 12, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 113 ratingsEpisode 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 Universit...
Episode 39: Riding into the Evening Reddit in the West with Joe Parslow
Reading McCarthy - April 27, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 113 ratingsCormac 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...
Episode 38: Covering the UK Book Beat: George Berridge of the Times Literary Supplement
Reading McCarthy - March 24, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 113 ratingsToday'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 revi...
Episode 37: Another Roundup of All the Pretty Horses, with Steven Frye and Stacey Peebles
Reading McCarthy - February 26, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 113 ratingsFrequent 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. St...
Episode 36: McCarthy's Knoxville with Wes Morgan
Reading McCarthy - January 11, 2023 21:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 113 ratingsLike 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 ...
Episode 35: Crossing the border on ALL THE PRETTY HORSES with Allen Josephs
Reading McCarthy - December 19, 2022 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 113 ratingsEpisode 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 Jose...
Episode 34: Listening in on STELLA MARIS
Reading McCarthy - December 08, 2022 14:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 113 ratingsSome 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 ...
Episode 33: McCarthy and the Animal Kingdom, with Wallis Sanborn
Reading McCarthy - November 22, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 113 ratingsThis 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...
Episode 32: Riding Along with THE PASSENGER
Reading McCarthy - October 25, 2022 18:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 113 ratingsAfter 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 co...
Episode 31: McCarthy and Irish Writers with Richard Russell
Reading McCarthy - October 10, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 113 ratingsThis 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...
Episode 30: Blood Meridian Round Table Part 2
Reading McCarthy - August 24, 2022 15:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 113 ratingsThe 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...
Episode 29: BLOOD MERIDIAN panel, Part I
Reading McCarthy - August 09, 2022 20:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 113 ratingsThree 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 ...
Episode 28: McCarthy's Women Characters with Nell Sullivan
Reading McCarthy - July 23, 2022 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 113 ratingsEpisode 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 Engli...
Episode 27: McCarthy and Race with Lydia Cooper
Reading McCarthy - June 16, 2022 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 113 ratingsEpisode 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 litera...
Episode 26: Turnabout, or, the Evening Redness in the Face, or Josyph Takes the Reins
Reading McCarthy - May 26, 2022 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 113 ratingsEverything 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 ...
Episode 25: They Rode On: Plumbing the BLOOD MERIDIAN with Stacey Peebles
Reading McCarthy - May 05, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 113 ratingsOur 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...
Episode 24: Wrangling with Wallach: An Interview with Rick Wallach, critic, scholar, editor and co-founder of the McCarthy Society
Reading McCarthy - April 03, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 113 ratingsThe 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 ...
Episode 23: Reading McCarthy with Audiobook Narrator RICHARD POE
Reading McCarthy - March 04, 2022 19:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 113 ratingsEpisode 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 d...
Episode 22: SUTTREE Round Table Part 2
Reading McCarthy - February 19, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 113 ratingsThis 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 presi...
Episode 21: Suttree Round Table, Part 1
Reading McCarthy - January 07, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 113 ratingsWe 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 prev...
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