Episode · The Book Review · 2023-06-23
Books mentioned on Remembering Cormac McCarthy and Robert Gottlieb
Dwight Garner discussed All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy, Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper by Cormac McCarthy, Child of God by Cormac McCarthy, and The Road by Cormac McCarthy, and criticized No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy. Gilbert Cruz discussed Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, Suttree by Cormac McCarthy, and The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy. Pamela Paul recommended Avid Reader by Robert Gottlieb.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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All the Pretty Horses
All the Pretty Horses is a novel by Cormac McCarthy that follows a young man from Texas who travels down to Mexico with a companion.
Discussed“All the Pretty Horses was published by afov and there was a big PR push for All the Pretty Horses and before that no one really knew the name cor M McCarthy”
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Blood Meridian
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy is a harrowing and visceral historical novel that depicts the extreme violence and bleak reality of the American West through the harrowing journey of a runaway teenager known as the kid.
Discussed“he was a cult figure and he wrote these five novels which culminated with what is considered to be one of his best novels now Blood Meridian”
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Suttree
Discussed“but the four before that the orchard keeper outer dark child of God and sutri Suri I always say Sury but I'm not positive Sury”
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Outer Dark
Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy is a bleak, atmospheric early novel that follows a brother and sister navigating a nightmarish, hauntingly desolate landscape filled with mysterious violence.
Discussed“but anyway the first three novels yeah the orchard keeper outer dark and child of God are relentlessly Bleak”
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The Orchard Keeper
The Orchard Keeper by Cormac McCarthy is the author's stark and atmospheric debut novel, set in a remote Tennessee community and noted for its bleak portrayal of rural life and human isolation.
Discussed“but anyway the first three novels yeah the orchard keeper outer dark and child of God are relentlessly Bleak”
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Child of God
Child of God is a dark and disturbing novel by Cormac McCarthy set in the backwoods of Tennessee, following the harrowing descent of a violent and isolated outcast.
Discussed“but anyway the first three novels yeah the orchard keeper outer dark and child of God are relentlessly Bleak”
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The Road
The Road by Cormac McCarthy is a bleak, post-apocalyptic novel that follows a father and his young son as they walk across a burned America, striving to survive while holding onto their morality.
Discussed“the road is similar the road is quite a slim novel as many listeners will know sort of a post-apocalyptic story of father and his young son”
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The Passenger
The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy is an intricate, companion-style novel following a salvage diver in New Orleans who navigates grief, mathematics, and shadowy government conspiracies alongside his late sister.
Discussed“Dwight you wrote a piece late last year following the publication of the passenger and Stella Maris those two Interlink novels about food in the work of Cormac McCarthy”
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No Country for Old Men
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy is a bleak, violent western thriller about a drug deal gone wrong and the relentless hunter pursuing the survivor.
Critiqued“so you've got me trying to remember but in the first sentence of No Country for Old Men a character is sent I believe to the gas chamber in Texas”
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Avid Reader
Avid Reader by Robert Gottlieb is a celebrated memoir by the legendary book editor that offers a fascinating look inside the world of publishing and literature.
Recommended“he also wrote A Memoir and one of the things I loved about this Memoir which is called Avid Reader”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (21) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“so Dwight you wrote the obituary for cormack McCarthy who starting with the orchard keeper way back in 1965 and ending with Stella Maris last year wrote 12 novels”
“so Dwight you wrote the obituary for cormack McCarthy who starting with the orchard keeper way back in 1965 and ending with Stella Maris last year wrote 12 novels”
“I don't begrudge anyone they're fandom of All the Pretty Horses or its two sequels the crossing and cities of the plane but I found them a little bit static for the kind of books I like to read the kind of fiction”
“I don't begrudge anyone they're fandom of All the Pretty Horses or its two sequels the crossing and cities of the plane but I found them a little bit static for the kind of books I like to read the kind of fiction”
“you know his career has quite an arc for half of his career before as you say 1992's All the Pretty Horses”
“but the four before that the orchard keeper outer dark child of God and sutri Suri”
“but the four before that the orchard keeper outer dark child of God and sutri Suri”
“but the four before that the orchard keeper outer dark child of God and sutri Suri”
“so Blood Meridian comes out 1985 and then as you say there really is at kop which is where he was published a a push starting with All the Pretty Horses in 1992 to try to break him out”
“he writes The Crossing as a sequel and then cities of the plane”
“he writes The Crossing as a sequel and then cities of the plane”
“then he goes into sort of the last part of his career which is No Country for Old Men the road”
“then he goes into sort of the last part of his career which is No Country for Old Men the road”
“of course he became popular with All the Pretty Horses but the movies found him I guess the movie they did made a film too of All the Pretty Horses”
“there's also this really ornate style that he gets in in Blood Meridian in the darkest way and Suri in a comic way”
“there's also this really ornate style that he gets in in Blood Meridian in the darkest way and Suri in a comic way”
“in his later novels the final two that came out just last fall the passenger and Stella Maris”
“in his later novels the final two that came out just last fall the passenger and Stella Maris”
“Dwight you wrote a piece late last year following the publication of the passenger and Stella Maris those two Interlink novels about food in the work of Cormac McCarthy”
“he was a longtime dance critic and he wrote several books about ballet and even like things like Miss Piggy's Guide to Life which he famously edited”
“one thing about Charles Dickens also because because he wrote a book about Charles Dickens called Great Expectations the Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens and Dickens as you know had many children and was not a great husband to be sure”