Reading McCarthy

Episode 18: Peter Josyph, Man of Many Talents and McCarthy Aficionado, Part 1


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The guest for Episode 18 is so interesting and diverse that he has sprawled into two episodes!   Author, Actor, Artist, Auteur, and more, Peter Josyph’s books include The Wrong Reader’s Guide to Cormac McCarthy: All the Pretty Horses; Adventures in Reading Cormac McCarthy; Cormac McCarthy’s House: Reading McCarthy Without Walls; Liberty Street: Encounters at Ground Zero; The Way of the Trumpet; What One Man Said to Another: Talks With Richard Selzer; and The Wounded River, which was a New York Times Notable Book of 1993. His films include the award-winning Liberty Street: Alive at Ground Zero; Shakespeare in New York; Hell; Bardtalk; A Few Things Basquiat Did in School; and Acting McCarthy: The Making of Billy Bob Thornton’s All the Pretty Horses. As a painter his McCarthy-related exhibitions have shown around the world, including Luleo, Sweden; Coventry, England; Sydney, Australia; and here in the states in in Berea, Kentucky; in El Paso; and in Santa Barbara. As an actor he has played, among many other roles, the character of White in The Sunset Limited at the Weisiger Theatre at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. He is a frequent keynote speaker for the Cormac McCarthy Society, and he currently lectures on film for the Frick Estate Lectures at Nassau County Museum of Art on Long Island.

Peter’s songs with band Corporeal Punishment, “Wesley’s Song” and “Suttree’s Song,” from his McCarthy Variations, are included in the show.  The intro and outro songs and other pieces are, as always, composed, performed, and produced by Thomas Frye.  The views of the host and his guests do not necessarily reflect the views of their home institutions or the Cormac McCarthy Society.  We are on Twitter and may be reached at [email protected].  Peter Josyph will rejoin us in the next episode. 

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