Cormac McCarthy Podcast

Cormac McCarthy between 1951-1957 experienced an archetypal pattern common to American men. He felt contained by his friends, family, and institution. From 1951-1952 Cormac McCarthy attended the University of Tennessee. After two years of this McCarthy decided to transition to a life in the  United States Air Force. In today's video, we will cover Cormac McCarhy's strained relationship with authority, the genesis of his creative urge, and the events that inspired his masterpiece "Suttree."

Since the inception of language stories have been stolen and imitated. However, in the modern world, when does that line get crossed? In this video today we will analyze the psychological reasons why people steal from Cormac McCarthy, an example of an author stealing for Cormac, and some discussion on the general ethics of imitating/stealing.

I know most of my subscribers hate astrology, but we are here in the ASTRAL anyway doing a full breakdown of Cormac McCarthy's birth chart and astrology. This is a blind astrology reading and I thought it went very well. So many odd connections that align with McCarthy's personal life.

Today we will be doing a breakdown of Cormac McCarthy's three failed marriages to Lee Holleman, Anne Delisle and Jennifer Winkley. This isn't a gossip video, but rather an analysis how his marriages and divorces influenced his novels.

McCarthy's four southern novels, "The Orchard Keeper," "Outer Dark," "Child of God," and "Suttree" are the main pieces we will be talking about today!

Does Cormac McCarthy's work align with the literary tradition of Romanticism? This series will explore Cormac McCarthy's relation to literary, religious, and other traditions. I will once and for all rank one by one all the labels scholars have put on McCarthy and see which one reigns supreme. 

Topics covered include

Gothic Fiction
Historical Romance
Emerson, Whitman, and Melville
Nature and Romance
Is Melville a Romantic?
and much more....

Cormac McCarthy rarely gives advice on writing novels, but in this video today we will be reading a lost interview (until 2022) with Cormac McCarthy where he is more candid about his writing process than ever before.

"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy is one of his most controversial books. Some McCarthy fans view it as a step away from his western/southern works, sci-fi gatekeepers view it as a weak stand-in novel to prevent "real" sci-fi authors from being given awards/press, and random readers can't understand the dark style of the work. Today I will be going over all the main objections of this book, and hopefully refuting all of them! Sorry for the hiatus, was super sick and am moving from Nevada to Arizona right now! Also, the mic cut-offs that happened in this video will be fixed in the next one. Dealing with a new studio room and need to get some rugs, bookshelves, and other stuff in here for soundproofing! 

What do you think of "The Road?"

This is a book review of “Stella Maris” by Cormac McCarthy. Today we will be doing a short breakdown of Alicia Western's life, her account of what happened with Bobby Western in Cormac McCarthy's "The Passenger," and some other crazy moments in this book. We will be discussing Cormac McCarthy's integration of math and science in Alicia's characterization, the effect of the Manhattan Project on the Karma of the characters, and a bunch of other fun things.

Today we are going to hear Cormac McCarthy talk about Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and the purpose of philosophy.

Today we are going to watch a clip where Cormac McCarthy discusses his experience receiving the MacArthur Fellowship!