Cormac McCarthy Podcast

Cormac McCarthy's "The Orchard Keeper" is a beautiful book. Over the past 9 months, I've read and reread over 15+ times for my Orchard Keeper Course. There is no better place to learn about McCarthy's upbringing, life philosophy, and writing style than "The Orchard Keeper." Every stylistic element or theme we love McCarthy for he started building in "The Orchard Keeper." I will explore some of these themes, how McCarthy wrote the novel, and other fun stuff in this review of Cormac McCarthy's "The Orchard Keeper."

One of Cormac McCarthy's early inspirations was fellow American Gothic writer Edgar Allen Poe. In this video I will go over how Poe influenced McCarthy!

I read Blood Meridian backward this past week and discovered an internal mirroring process within Cormac McCarthy's novel. In this video, I will present the massive secret contrasts embedded in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian! With this new interpretation, massive literary analysis opportunities start to open up! If you have any ideas please feel free to comment them!
Stay tuned for a breakdown of Blood Meridian's ending tomorrow!

Where does evil manifest? In this video, Cormac McCarthy discusses how to read Genesis, where evil comes from, and the antidote to evil. The quotes from the video are from his unpublished screenplay "Whales and Men"

Cormac McCarthy includes a poem by Ezra Pound in his unpublished screenplay "Whales and Men." In today's video, I break down McCarthy's usage of pound, rant about one of my favorite poets, Li Po, and drop some knowledge on one of my favorite topics, Chinese Wilderness poetry!