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74Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian: "The Mystery is That There is No Mystery"
The pretense is gone in Blood Meridian, the pretense of the civilized man. Instead the pack mentality rules and that part of our nature that is the most base and self centered is allowed the front seat....
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67The Wasteland of McCarthy
In Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, the author uses the landscape and setting to comment on the social and public life of the few remaining humans left on Earth. Through out the novel, the author...
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70Life of Suttree: To Knoxville and Then Some
What’s on the mind of Cornelius “Buddy” Suttree as he looks up at the wide expanse of stars visible after just having made love to a young woman that can’t quite get enough of him? I bow to the god...
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65Beyond violence in McCarthy's Blood Meridian
For the uneasy stomach, Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian can be a burden. But in the end, it's worth the work. The novel's richness and depth is proven in its universality of time. A truly American novel-- ambitious and relentless.
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60THE ORIGIN OF A NERD: A TRUE STORY
I began to realize my inner nerd when I was in line at the local 24 hour Haggen’s to buy a copy of The Deathly Hallows at 12 in the morning. I had missed the launch party which included various forms of...
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49The Art of "No Country for Old Men"
SPOILER ALERT! Though I had wanted to wait until I read the book, I recently watched the film No Country For Old Men. I heard and read so much about Cormac McCarthy's supposedly being the "next big thing,"...
60The Proposition
There is a strange and elemental force about this film, which has not only shocked me as a viewer, but changed the way I look at cinema. It is a complete “new-classic”, with a narrative that is concerned...
8 comments71No Country for Old Vampires, or the Sudden Shift of an old Mythology.
It seems that lately, there’s been a sort of paradigm shift in cinematic trends as of late. Especially since the phenomenon of Twilight has captured the youth of today, the resurgence in both the cinematic...
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59The Best Summer Reading List Ever
It’s all too easy to get lost in the mad rush of new releases and cookie-cutter best-sellers when you take a trip to the book store (whether in person or online) but you shouldn’t just settle for the...
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55Interviewing the Author of the World's Best Westerns
The first time I was published as a freelance writer in a national magazine was in the December / January 2009 issue of "American Cowboy" magazine. Please check out the original at the link below. I must say...
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