The Invisible Man
Until very recently, no one had heard of novelist Cormac McCarthy, other than the hundred or so people who regarded him as the nation’s greatest living writer of prose. Even his handful of admirers...
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IT WAS ONLY MID-MARCH when Joe Ely sat in the recording studio at his home south of Austin, but 1998 was already shaping up to be a big year for the Lubbock-bred rocker. The night before, downtown...
View ArticleDesperately Seeking Cormac
This story is from Texas Monthly’s archives. We have left the text as it was originally published to maintain a clear historical record. Read more here about our archive digitization project. He came...
View ArticleLadies and Gentlemen, the Next Cormac McCarthy
ON A WINDY DAY IN MARCH the hottest Texas writer you’ve never heard of strolls into an El Paso hotel bar with a broad smile on his face. James Carlos Blake has upright posture, and his hair and...
View ArticleAll the Pretty Corpses
I’ll never forget the moment I received my advance review copy of Cormac McCarthy’s long-awaited novel No Country for Old Men (Knopf). It was all shiny and new, and the countdown clock on...
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Sunset Limited
Imagine a stage play with two characters in a ghetto tenement debating the value of life: White is a professor who jumped in front of a train, and Black is the ex-con who rescued him. This is the...
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Bruce Sterling
The Brownsville native and longtime Austinite has spent most of his adult life contemplating the future: A progenitor of the scruffy cyberpunk fiction movement (he edited the short-story anthology...
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Cormac McCarthy Pens First Major Original Script
Perhaps “become a screenwriter” was on Cormac McCarthy’s bucket list? Mike Fleming of Deadline.com reported that the 78-year-old novelist, whose books The Road and No Country for Old Men were both made...
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“Cormac McCarthy” Twitter Account Debunked in Record Time
To go by Kinky Friedman’s formulation, Cormac McCarthy must be a real cowboy, because Cormac McCarthy doesn’t tweet. But for the better part of Monday, the Twitterverse was wondering (and hoping)...
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Cormac McCarthy Rewrites Science
Quantum Man by Lawrence M. Krauss, the book of the year according to PhysicsWorld.com, simply wasn’t good enough for Cormac McCarthy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist of such works as The Road and...
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Back in the Saddle Again
When book critics gather around the campfire to list the names of the best Texas authors of contemporary Westerns, one name jumps out among the usual suspects of Cormac McCarthy, Larry McMurty, and...
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Cormac Relief
Movies don’t come much more anticipated than The Counselor,a twisty tale of drug dealing and backstabbing along the Texas border written by Cormac McCarthy, directed by Ridley Scott, and starring Brad...
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Meanwhile, in Texas . . .
About 1,400 Flower Mound residents lost power thanks to a hungry squirrel that chewed through an electrical wire. The dash-cam video of a Rosenberg police officer stopping to play a quick game of toss...
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The Agony and the Ecstasy of the State Fair Food Finalists
Editor’s note: We haven’t tried the State Fair food finalists—yet—but we imagined a weary traveler encountering the vastness of it all. All the sweet. All the savory. All the fried. Come on this...
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No Tweets for Old Men: Yet Another Cormac McCarthy Twitter Hoax Is Upon Us
He sat down on the porch and started to type on the small glass screen of the device that they still called a phone when they sold it to him. His fingers barely moved but he felt the excitement he’d...
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Eleven Texas Writers Remember Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy, who died Tuesday at 89, was a giant of American literature. The author began his literary life writing stories set in southern Appalachia—McCarthy, born in Rhode Island, grew up and...
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