{"id":12837,"date":"2023-06-24T00:44:12","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T00:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12837"},"modified":"2023-07-03T00:47:42","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T00:47:42","slug":"cormac-mccarthy-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2023\/06\/24\/cormac-mccarthy-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Cormac McCarthy Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from The Los Angeles Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cormac McCarthy shaped a generation of writers like me \u2014 even when we didn\u2019t admit it<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

BY\u00a0JOHN WRAY<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Cormac
Cormac McCarthy in Santa Fe, N.M., in 2014.\u00a0(Beowulf Sheehan)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

For the entirety of my writing life,\u00a0Cormac McCarthy<\/a>\u00a0has been a mountain. Some of the novelists of my generation found the mountain beautiful; others found it oppressive. But virtually all of us, whatever our position or attitude, existed in its shade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In spite of the enormity of his shadow, however, I\u2019ve never before written about the author of so many novels I\u2019ve studied and admired. In the two decades since my first book was published, I\u2019ve fielded the boilerplate question about my influences no end of times, name-checking an almost absurdly ragtag crew:\u00a0Shirley Hazzard<\/a>, Denis Johnson,\u00a0William S. Burroughs<\/a>, Amos Tutuola, Lydia Davis,\u00a0Toni Morrison<\/a>, John Berger,\u00a0Ursula K. Le Guin<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 even, just a few weeks ago, whoever ghost-wrote\u00a0David Lee Roth\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0memoir, \u201cCrazy From the Heat.\u201d But one name I\u2019ve conspicuously avoided all these years has been that of McCarthy, who\u00a0died last week at 89<\/a>. Why on earth is that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[ click to continue reading at LAT<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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