I can’t explain how one creates a novel,” Cormac McCarthy told Tennessee’s Kingsport Times in 1973. Outer Dark achieved miserably poor sales, as did 1973’s Child of God, and McCarthy fell into drinking heavily, which he said was an “an occupational hazard to writing”. Saul Bellow, a member of the jury for this so-called “genius grant”, praised McCarthy’s “absolutely overpowering …
Cormac McCarthy refused to go on book tours and let his novels speak for themselves. I was looking for something to read at a bookshop in London’s Heathrow Airport last October when I spied Cormac McCarthy’s 2022 novel “The Passenger.” The early buzz about “The Passenger” was that it was a very good book — maybe even a great one …
