The previously unknown "muse" of famed novelist Cormac McCarthy has revealed herself in a Vanity Fair profile, published ...

Great American novelist Cormac McCarthy was defensively private and didn't share much about the inspiration behind his books — or about himself. However, the author, who died in 2023 ...

Scholar Dianne C. Luce notes that at the time, Cormac McCarthy was living in Knoxville, just a couple hours up the highway from Chattanooga, where the local papers also covered the Lula Lake murders.

and he makes judicious use of it in his illuminating study of McCarthy's Irish and Catholic cultural inheritance. My article, “Robert Coles and Cormac McCarthy: A Case Study of Literary Patronage,” is ...

Many scholars consider this to be McCarthy’s greatest Southern novel. It traces the title character’s life along the Tennessee River mingling with drunks, grifters and misfits. This whipsawing ...

Cormac McCarthy, the formidable and reclusive writer of Appalachia and the American Southwest, died on June 12, 2023, at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. McCarthy’s fiction took a dark view of ...

Then came an audiobook to shiver my timbers. Suddenly, I heard of “clabberd” houses, stopping mid-walk to adjust my ear-buds.

MOVING WALL The "moving wall" represents the time period between the last issue available in JSTOR and the most recently published issue of a journal. Moving walls are generally represented in years.

Grinning Hideously Over Their Canted Pieces refers to a line in the last paragraph of Cormac McCarthy's novel Blood Meridian describing a scene about Judge ...