/lit/ - Literature

>He leaned and spat. "This ain't No Country for Old Men."

Bravo Corncob.

stop reading Proust

When he dies, will there be any great English prose stylists left alive?

>The boy clamored withstanding nightfall like a dusk pale moon supper fallen huffly beyond childish tunes of gorchese fat with earthen poetry under doorlish eyes and spirit cackles to hold upon the mother child of summer astin pulses
>I am
>What
>Dog he said
>You is what
>Yep
>Suit yourself


When did you realize that McCarthy was literally just a geriatric man who publishers felt bad for?

>>11760578

*spits at the English language*

>After marrying fellow student Lee Holleman in 1961, they "moved to a shack with no heat and running water in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains outside of Knoxville". There they had a son, Cullen, in 1962. While caring for the baby and tending to the chores of the house, Lee was asked by Cormac to also get a day job so he could focus on his novel writing.

>One would think that the author himself is a big drinker, but in an interview with Richard B. Woodward from The New York Times, "McCarthy doesn't drink anymore – he quit 16 years ago in El Paso, with one of his young girlfriends – and Suttree reads like a farewell to that life. 'The friends I do have are simply those who quit drinking,' he says. 'If there is an occupational hazard to writing, it's drinking.'"

>Cormac McCarthy is fluent in Spanish and lived in Ibiza, Spain, in the 1960s.

>In one of his few interviews (with The New York Times), McCarthy revealed that he respects only authors who "deal with issues of life and death," citing Henry James and Marcel Proust as examples of writers who do not rate with him. "I don't understand them ... To me, that's not literature. A lot of writers who are considered good I consider strange", he said

>Oprah Winfrey selected McCarthy's 2006 novel The Road as the April 2007 selection for her Book Club.[45] As a result, McCarthy agreed to his first television interview, which aired on The Oprah Winfrey Show on June 5, 2007. The interview took place in the library of the Santa Fe Institute. McCarthy told Winfrey that he does not know any writers and much prefers the company of scientists.

>As reported in Wired magazine, McCarthy's Olivetti Lettera 32 typewriter, which he had owned since buying it in a Knoxville pawnshop for $50 in 1963, was put up for auction at Christie's in 2009. He estimates he has typed around five million words on the machine, and maintenance consisted of "blowing out the dust with a service station hose". The Olivetti was auctioned on December 4, 2009, and the auction house estimated it would fetch between $15,000 and $20,000; it sold for $254,500.[48] Its replacement is another Olivetti, bought for McCarthy by his friend John Miller for $11.

>describes the surroundings

>dude: nothing: lmao!

>I’ll have him spit in the dirt 100 times.

>DUDE SODOMY LMAO

>he stood like a man