Are there any Cormac McCarthy fans out there?

by contrast ten pages on birmingham is not enough pages

The Birmingham piece was great don’t get me wrong. Would love to read cormac on Birmingham.

RIP. First time reading Blood Meridian I was in a queue at an airport and during the first battle scene my knees gave out on me. Time to read Suttree, I guess.

That's the one people have been mentioning a bit rn, so..

Big fan of the border trilogy. Incredible epilogue.

yes these are the ones

i think no country is great, a seventies airport novel that leaps off the page into the movie- i think its criticised for what it isnt, which is never valid ofc

I really liked NCFOM, maybe not quite as much as the film, but it's good stuff.

When death isn't enough to cancel the guy

look i'm not a big literary brain or a contributor to the new left review or anything, but i do think poverty *is* bad? no-one should *have* to eat only beans or bathe in lakes and if i was married to a v successful writer and having to do that i'd prob be a bit salty about it https://t.co/97oOnpadgA

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The very notion of artistic principles is passing along with writers like McCarthy.

oddly Pretty Horses was on tv last night. i don't remember having seen it before.

I never saw it but it was yet another one where people later griped that Weinstein butchered the director's cut.

I wish The Road was a better movie. The book remains my favorite of his.

Quite an arc.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/19/opinion/cormac-mccarthy-publishing.html

Did Suttree and Blood Meridian really go out of print before 1992 and get saved by All the Pretty Horses? I seem to recall buying and reading them before AtPH was published. Maybe they went back into publication immediately beforehand.

Shortly before, as in early in 1992.

Thinking there was a build-up, a run-up.

before 1992 blood meridian existed without my knowledge and therefore without my consent

Suttree had a nice yuppie Vintage Contemporaries edition in the mid/late 1980s.

Thanks! The ones I had were Vintage Internationals of a later, um, vintage, do u see? They had kind of a mostly black and white layout with some Guy Maddin smeared blur of a few other colors in the background overlaid by a kind of gold paint lettering design.

Which vintage did indeed seem to be early 1992.

The punctuation in Blood Meridian versus the punctuation in Absalom, Absalom! pic.twitter.com/bv0MjfwKNu

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