Return of the sun's pandemonium

[Mark Kohut]

Looser rumor buzz says he thought of it @50 years ago, has been closely
thinking and writing it for 40....

On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 9:58 AM rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> per the buzz in McCarthy land, The Passenger was conceived after Blood
> Meridian, so in the 1980s sometime. which indicates a full-fledged novel
> not re-furnished plays or screenplays which has been his output most
> recently. The description loosely conjures No Country for Old Men, a guy
> finds something he shouldn't and mayhem ensues.
> I'm guessing (with no evidence) that McCarthy had difficulty molding the
> two works into one and finally decided to make it two.
> It's interesting mention of a different style than his previous work which
> is odd if he's been writing or working on The Passenger for more than 30
> years.
> I also can't get the Iggy Pop song out of my head now
> all in all, in any case, it's good news
>
> rich
>
> On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 7:26 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I suggest McCarthy kept working on them, at least that first....to have
>> them in the hands of editors/publisher is just in case an 80+ year old guy
>> died, I think.
>>
>> *Suttree* was his fourth published novel, but the first one he started
>> writing. Couldn't get it right to his satisfaction. We sorta know by
>> circumstantial evidence
>> that TRP might have started *Against the Day* not long after the
>> publication of* Gravity's Rainbow*. I've recently learned that Roth's
>> first
>> deep masterpiece, I and some say,
>> *My Life As a Man *was started three books before Roth made it what he
>> wanted and published it....
>>
>> Happens with geniuses who aren't satisfied until.....
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 7:13 AM Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > two things about this: one, "Binky" Urban is still in the game and two,
>> > there has to be a really interesting story behind why they've been
>> sitting
>> > on these 2 books for ~8 years and are now suddenly publishing them
>> > simultaneously.
>> >
>> > On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 10:26 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> https://www.thebookseller.com/rights/rights/cormac-mccarthy-returns-after-16-years-with-two-new-novels-for-picador-in-2022
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