For novelists of Westerns, Cormac McCarthy transcended – and reinvented – the genre
“It’s like he was writing meta-Westerns,” says Kushner, author of “The Flamethrowers” and other novels. “He writes about people gripped by existential compulsion, who don’t know why they do the things they do.”
Weiden — an enrolled citizen of the Sicangu Lakota nation whose debut novel, “Winter Counts,” centers on a Native vigilante at odds with the American legal system — came to appreciate the “audacity and ambition” of McCarthy and how he opened the genre to new kinds of stories. Like Weiden and Morris, author Rudy Ruiz didn’t immediately find McCarthy pleasurable or even understandable. He would end up rereading the same page multiple times, making sure he hadn’t missed something, and thought the despair and the loneliness of McCarthy’s books “made them hard sometimes to engage with.”
South Africa Latest News, South Africa Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Kaplan-Myrth: Anti-trans protest shows it's time to create 'safe zones' around Ottawa schoolsWe have seen a sharp rise in anti\u002Dtrans rhetoric and LGBTQ intolerance globally in the last year.
Read more »
Globe editorial: The state has a duty to protect trans studentsA new struggle to protect the rights of LGBTQ Canadians is emerging and it is the duty of the state to protect sexual and gender minorities
Read more »
Opinion: New Brunswick’s debate over trans student policy is bigger than one provinceAn organized anti-LGBTQ far-right movement is on the rise – and it appears to be trying to gain a public-policy foothold in Canada, starting with New Brunswick
Read more »
At least 15 killed in crash on Trans-Canada Highway in Manitoba: sourcesA very serious crash on the Trans-Canada Highway near Carberry has prompted a code orange at Health Sciences Centre for a mass casualty event. Sources tell CTV News at least 15 people have been killed in the crash.
Read more »
Manitoba RCMP responding to serious crash on Trans-Canada HighwayA very serious crash on the Trans-Canada Highway near Carberry has prompted a code orange at Health Sciences Centre for a mass casualty event.
Read more »
Fifth Trans Mountain pipeline-related sinkhole since April concerns B.C. farmer - Terrace StandardFifth pipeline-related sinkhole since April concerns Langley farmer
Read more »