Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on Remembering Cormac McCarthy and Robert Gottlieb
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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All the Pretty Horses
Discussed“All the Pretty Horses again about a young man living in Texas goes down with a friend of his to Mexico”
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Blood Meridian
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy is a harrowing, violent epic novel depicting the brutal realities of the American West through the journey of a runaway teenager known as the kid.
Discussed“of course the classic is Blood Meridian which is one of the darkest books ever written”
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Suttree
Discussed“in a novel like Suri a lot of the scenes are set in a diner in a kind of Roadhouse Diner and cormax characters have always liked diners”
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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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Outer Dark
Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy is a bleak, atmospheric southern Gothic novel that forms the second book in the acclaimed author's early trilogy.
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 is Cormac McCarthy's debut novel, published in 1965, which explores bleak rural landscapes and complex human relationships in the American South.
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 masterpiece that follows a father and his young son walking through a burned, ash-covered America trying to survive against starvation and roaming bands of cannibals while holding onto their humanity.
Discussed“and of course there are really disgusting moments for example in the road where these characters are keeping human beings alive in a basement so they can slowly consume their flesh”
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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“on the passenger he has a character eat at this great restaurant outside of New Orleans moscas which is a great old Italian Roadhouse”
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No Country for Old Men
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy is a gripping suspense novel that tracks the violent aftermath of a drug deal gone wrong in West Texas alongside the pursuit of a ruthless killer.
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 chronicling his remarkable career shaping many of the twentieth century's most iconic literary works.
Discussed“yes so I read Avid Reader on vacation in Vermont and immediately fell in love not only with the book but really with Bob who had only met once before at a book”
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Other mentions in this episode (20) — 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”