Cormac McCarthy Interview (was The Road)

[hillcity1970 at cox.net]

I also watched the Cormac McCarthy interview, which is unusual for me because it required watching at least a portion of "Oprah." His books are fairly new to me, and after reading a bit about his reclusiveness I wasn't quite sure what to expect. After living in Monroeville, Alabama for a few years and working at the museum in that town, I got used to their resident recluse, Harper Lee. One never knows what to expect from literary recluses (J.D. Salinger hiding behind the fence, Harper Lee hiding in New York, etc.), so this interview was a pleasant surprise to me. He seems genuinely unsure about what to do with his celebrity status, and it was nice to see that he really is just a guy who doesn't necessarily like all of the attention, who writes for the love of writing, and who lets his books speak for themselves.
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Matt Rhodes
Falls Church, VA
mwrhodes.blogspot.com

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I was definitely underwhelmed with the whole thing.  It certainly didn't live up to it's advance billing.  Did McCarthy jump the shark with this one?