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McCarthy Continues to Dazzle Without Delivering a Big Yarn
Cities of the Plain , by Cormac McCarthy. Alfred A. Knopf, 292 pages, $24. When Cormac McCarthy’s fifth novel, Blood
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Burn, Brunch, Burn!
Increasingly, it seems, New Yorkers try to get out of throwing a New Year’s Eve party-yet still receive points for
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DeLillo Pretentious? Stupid? Literary Pugilists Throw Punches
A Reader’s Manifesto: An Attack on the Growing Pretentiousness in American Literary Prose , by B. R. Myers. Melville House,
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Lugubrious and Repetitive
Reviewing Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men in today’s New York Times, reviewer Michiko Kakutani laments that the novel’s
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A Taut, Bloody Thriller, Philosophically Inflected
No Country for Old Men, by Cormac McCarthy. Alfred A. Knopf, 309 pages, $24.95. The first reaction is visceral, and
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A Taut, Bloody Thriller, Philosophically Inflected
No Country for Old Men, by Cormac McCarthy. Alfred A. Knopf, 309 pages, $24.95. The first reaction is visceral, and
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A White-Line Nightmare, After the End of the World
It looks like Cormac McCarthy is wasting away. Once he was prolix, stuffing big fat novels with long, trailing sequences
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I Am George Jetson
Meet George Jetson; Jane, his wife. Their deluxe apartment in the sky, you must admit, boasts quite the view. Rockets
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Charlize Hits The Road With Viggo
Charlize Theron might have to draw on some of her previous Aeon Flux talents to fight the cannibals with Viggo
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Viggo Wigged Out by Emotional Role in Cormac McCarthy Movie
The New York premiere of director John Hillcoat’s adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize–winning, doomful tale The Road was conspicuously
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Is Cormac McCarthy a New Favorite to Win the Nobel?
With just a few days until the Swedish Academy announces the winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature, the
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Mario Vargas Llosa, Today’s Nobel Lit Winner, Can Now Be Taken Seriously By...
The Swedish Academy announced this morning that Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa will be the 2010 recipient of the Nobel
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James Franco to Translate Two Monoliths of American Literature to Film
When we chatted up the tireless James Franco at the book party for his Palo Alto, at The James in
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Semicolons and Exclamation Points’ New Enemy in Punctuation Wars: Cormac...
The relatively-elusive novelist Cormac McCarthy has deviated from his job as novelist from time to time, and whenever he does—whether
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James Franco Takes His Directorial Meat Cleaver to Cormac McCarthy’s ‘Child...
The good, the bad and the ugly.
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Tom Wolfe’s Magnum Opus Is Ready! Farrar Hopes to Make Serial Killing
For a little over a week now, the most coveted invitation in the Manhattan magazine world has been for a seat at a wooden table in a conference room at Farrar, Straus & Giroux’s Union Square West...
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For a little over a week now, the most coveted invitation in the Manhattan magazine world has been for a seat at a wooden table in a conference room at Farrar, Straus & Giroux’s Union Square West...
View ArticleMcCarthy Continues to Dazzle Without Delivering a Big Yarn
Cities of the Plain , by Cormac McCarthy. Alfred A. Knopf, 292 pages, $24. When Cormac McCarthy’s fifth novel, Blood Meridian , was first published in Britain in 1989, a fellow novelist as...
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