New Cormac?

[David Morris]

Why would anyone disparage him for an Oprah interview? Really? What's with
that?

I still love Blood Meridian, his Melville imitation, and a fine job.

David Morris

On Monday, August 3, 2015, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Consensus belief, I think, is he allowed himself to be on and interviewed
> by Oprah was because he wanted a big hit of sales. for his family, he
> wasn't/ isn't young. Big lifetime-earned semi-retirement payoff. He had
> live very poor for a long time. Oprah would not have selected the book
> otherwise.
>
> He quoted the great line from Bullitt: " You work your side of the street
> and I'll work mine" as he defined himself against Oprah's " marketing.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Aug 3, 2015, at 4:34 PM, Mark Sacha <msacha1121 at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','msacha1121 at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>
> The third paragraph makes it sound like someone apart from McCarthy will
> be doing the reading, which is probably for the best (still have no clue
> why he allowed himself to be interviewed on Oprah of all things). There's
> been mention of him working on this one for quite a while now and even a
> manuscript copy in the archives at Texas State, but the fact that it's
> being aired in any form is probably a good sign.
>
> On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 3:36 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','richard.romeo at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>
>> Cormac Mccarthy will be reading from his yet to be published new novel
>> The Passenger on Wednesday at the Santa Fe Institute.
>>
>> http://santafe.edu/gevent/detail/public/2208/
>>
>> rich
>>
>>
>>
>
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