Cormac McCarthy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose searing novel No Country for Old Men served as the foundation for the Coen brothers’ 2007 film that earned Oscars for best picture, supporting actor, directing and adapted screenplay, has died. He was 89.McCarthy died Tuesday of natural...
Jan 31, 2022 • 8 min read Though often overlooked, travel writing has been an important part of Black literature for centuries – here are 15 of the best travel books by Black women… For Explorers Everywhere Follow us SUBSCRIBE Subscribe to Lonely Planet newsletters and promotions.Read our...
ridiculous. On another day, ten different titles might come to mind." However, it's clear that on the day in question, King was thinking about books surrounding dystopian governance. The list included William Golding'sLord of the Flies, George Orwell's1984, and Cormac McCarthy'sBlood ...
Blame Cormac McCarthy, whose worst novel (by a mile) has been faithfully… Read More → TIFF 2013 | Tom at the Farm (Xavier Dolan, Canada)—Special Presentation By Adam Nayman | 09/08/2013 | Cinema Scope Online, TIFF 2013 By Adam Nayman As the titular Tom, co-screenwriter-...
behind symbolic tropes and loads of atmospheric subtext. However, there is always an exception. We looked at an exception of each of these in the last post: one fromChild of Godby Cormac McCarthy (shooting) and one fromMy Soul to Keepby Tananarive Due (stabbing) and why they are ...
Writers creating work since then have more meaning for me now: Sigred Nunez (The Last of Her Kind), Paul Auster (Leviathan and The New York Trilogy), Cormac McCarthy, and the Scandinavians: Knut Hamsun, Laxness, Petterson, Gaarder and Knausgard. I single out Diego Maroni’s New Finnish ...
To give the simplest summary of the latest film from Ridley Scott and first-time screenwriter Cormac McCarthy, the Counselor (Michael Fassbender), deeply in love with his fiancée Laura (Penelope Cruz), tries to make a quick score in a one-time drug deal with Reiner (Javier Bardem), his ...
On the other hand, William Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy probably had the most influence on my own writing, to wit: my stunned awe of their work kept me from attempting fiction. What’s the point? If you can’t do it this well, you’re a dilettante, I told myself. But then ...
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