Cormac McCarthy Podcast

Figuring out a reading order for Cormac McCarthy can be hard. Some of McCarthy's works are inaccessible to beginner readers, and other books may not be exciting or dynamic enough for more fluff readers. So today I'll be outlining three different reader archetypes and providing a Cormac McCarthy reading order for them! Comment your thoughts down below to help create some data for a future video where I create a 1-12 reading order for these reader archetypes. 

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.

Today we will be talking about Cormac McCarthy's high school experience. This will be a part of a new series titled "The Life of Cormac McCarthy" which will be a biography on all the parts of his life!

Cormac McCarthy attended high school at "Knoxville Catholic School" from 1947 to 1951. His two older sisters were very active and successful students, and they also served as editors for the school paper. However, as the middle child, Cormac was of course going to take a different path. For the next four years, Cormac went pretty under the radar. He was an artist for the school newspaper, a member of the choir, and enjoyed playing softball. But, in general, Cormac steered clear of most of the emotional and time sucks that high school offers.

A couple years ago I wrote Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian" by hand. This process took months but revealed a lot more than reading "Blood Meridian" multiple times. Today, I will talk about my experience writing "Blood Meridian by Hand," the benefits of doing so, and some of the things I learned about the text from the process.

An intro to the podcast!