Episode 28 brings back previous guest Nell Sullivan to discuss a thorny subject: McCarthy’s women characters, with digressions into the ways the author tiptoes through the landscape of homosocial desire. Nell Sullivan earned a BA in English from Vanderbilt University and earned her PhD in English from Rice University. She is currently Professor of English at University of Houston-Downtown, where she teaches courses in American literature and the literature of the American South. A former editor ...
Jul 23, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Season 2Ep. 28
Episode 27 of READING MCCARTHY is a thorough consideration of Race in the Works of Cormac McCarthy. The guest for this thoughtful and engaging discussion is Lydia Cooper; Dr. Cooper is a professor of American literature at Creighton University. Her specializations include Native American literature, Western and Southwestern literature, gender studies, and Cormac McCarthy. Her most recent book is Cormac McCarthy: A Complexity Theory of Literature , published by Manchester University Press. Other ...
Jun 16, 2022•1 hr 18 min•Season 2Ep. 27
Everything is topsy-turvy for this episode as returning guest Peter Josyph seizes control of the station and turns the tables on your regular host Scott Yarbrough, interviewing him. Regular host Scott Yarbrough is the co-author of A Practical Introduction to Literary Study, co-editor with Rick Wallach of the two volume Carrying the Fire casebook collections of essays on The Road, and author of numerous essays on McCarthy, Faulkner, Hemingway, and others. Peter Josyph is an Author, Actor, Artist,...
May 26, 2022•1 hr 26 min•Season 2Ep. 26
Our returning guest for READING MCCARTHY is Stacey Peebles. On this 25th episode of the podcast we venture out into the Darkening World to Come and Ride into the Evening Redness in the West. Yes, that’s right—this is our first full-length consideration of McCarthy’s masterpiece, Blood Meridian. Dr. Peebles is Chair of the English program, Director of Film Studies, and the Marlene and David Grissom Professor of Humanities at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. She is the author of Welcome to th...
May 05, 2022•1 hr 24 min•Season 2Ep. 25
The guest for Episode 24 of READING MCCARTHY needs no introduction to any member of the Cormac McCarthy Society, visitors to the CormacMccarthy.com forums, or readers of McCarthy Criticism. One of the founders of the Cormac McCarthy society, Rick Wallach survived a degree in theology and years teaching English in Miami, Florida, and is a founding member of the Cormac McCarthy Society. He is senior editor of the Cormac McCarthy Soci ety casebook series, and editor of the two-volume collection of ...
Apr 03, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Season 2Ep. 24
Episode 23 of READING MCCARTHY brings us a great discussion with actor and audiobook narrator Richard Poe. Poe is known to McCarthy fans as the audiobook narrator of McCarthy’s masterwork Blood Meridian. Richard Poe has been a professional actor since 1970, when he left the army and was soon drafted into the chorus of William Ball’s production of Oedipus Rex at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. Later that year he was cast as Rosencrantz in a production of Hamlet starring the 73...
Mar 04, 2022•46 min•Season 2Ep. 23
This is the second part of the round table discussion of one of McCarthy’s masterworks, the 1979 novel Suttree. The guests for this wonderful discussion include Dianne Luce, who previously appeared in episodes about The Orchard Keeper and Suttree . Dr. Luce is a founding member and past president of the Cormac McCarthy Society. Together with Edwin Arnold, she has edited two collections of articles on McCarthy, and she is the author of Reading the World: Cormac McCarthy’s Tennessee Period (2009)....
Feb 19, 2022•1 hr 36 min•Season 2Ep. 22
We kick off Season 2 of READING McCARTHY with a very special episode. Instead of having only one guest today, we’ll have three in the first part of a round table discussion of one of McCarthy’s masterworks, SUTTREE . As part of the round table we welcome back our guest Dianne Luce, who previously appeared in episodes about The Orchard Keeper and Suttree . Dr. Luce is a founding member and past president of the Cormac McCarthy Society. Together with Edwin Arnold, she has edited two collections of...
Jan 07, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 2Ep. 21
Episode 20 brings back guest Bryan Giemza in a discussion which begins as a consideration of McCarthy and Irish Catholicism in the American South and ends with a quick dip into one of McCarthy’s less revered works, The Counselor. Dr. Bryan Giemza is an Associate Professor of Humanities and Literature in the Honors College at Texas Tech University. In addition to his teaching and research he serves as public scholar for the Sowell Family Collection in Literature, Community and the Natural World. ...
Dec 13, 2021•55 min•Season 1Ep. 20
This episode is Part TWO of my excellent wandering conversation with the energetic and versatile Peter Josyph. Author, Actor, Artist, Auteur, and more, Peter Josyph’s books include The Wrong Reader’s Guide to Cormac McCarthy: All the Pretty Horses; Adventures in Reading Cormac McCarthy; Cormac McCarthy’s House: Reading McCarthy Without Walls; Liberty Street: Encounters at Ground Zero; The Way of the Trumpet; What One Man Said to Another: Talks With Richard Selze r; and The Wounded River , which ...
Nov 12, 2021•48 min•Season 1Ep. 19
The guest for Episode 18 is so interesting and diverse that he has sprawled into two episodes! Author, Actor, Artist, Auteur, and more, Peter Josyph’s books include The Wrong Reader’s Guide to Cormac McCarthy: All the Pretty Horses; Adventures in Reading Cormac McCarthy; Cormac McCarthy’s House: Reading McCarthy Without Walls; Liberty Street: Encounters at Ground Zero; The Way of the Trumpet; What One Man Said to Another: Talks With Richard Selze r; and The Wounded River , which was a New York T...
Oct 22, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Episode 17 is an epic consideration of McCarthy’s first great epic novel, Suttree. Our returning guest is Dr. Dianne Luce. Dianne Luce is a founding member and past president of the Cormac McCarthy Society. She has co-edited two collections of articles on McCarthy, and she is the author of Reading the World: Cormac McCarthy’s Tennessee Period (2009). Recently she has been writing a two-volume study of McCarthy’s writing life at Random House through examination of archival research. She holds fac...
Sep 17, 2021•1 hr 29 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Our guest for Episode 16 is Michael Crews, author of Books are Made out of Books : A guide to Cormac McCarthy’s Literary Influences, published by the University of Texas Press in 2017. Dr. Crews is an Associate Professor of English and chair of English and Communication Studies at Regents University. He explains his work delving into the McCarthy archives of the Wittliff Collection in his quest for the writers and texts who have influenced the works of Cormac McCarthy. Thanks to Thomas Frye, who...
Aug 27, 2021•39 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Episode 15 is a dive into McCarthy’s first produced and published screenplay, The Gardener’s Son. The guest on this episode is Dr. Stacey Peebles, Chair of the English program, Director of Film Studies, and the Marlene and David Grissom Professor of Humanities at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. She is the author of Welcome to the Suck: Narrating the American Soldier's Experience in Iraq (2011 ) and Cormac McCarthy and Performance: Page, Stage, Screen (2017) . She is editor of the collectio...
Aug 06, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Episode 14 is a consideration of McCarthy and faith. Today’s guest Dr. Bryan Vescio is Professor and Chair of English at High Point University in North Carolina. He has previously taught at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Missouri Southern State University, and DePaul University. He is the author of the 2014 book Reconstruction in Literary Studies: An Informalist Approach , as well as numerous articles on American authors including Mark Twain, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, and Nathana...
Jul 23, 2021•48 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Episode 13 of READING MCCARTHY is a look behind the curtains of the Cormac McCarthy Society’s webpage with webmaster, writers, critic, book collector, and aficionado Marty Priola. Mary Priola holds a bachelor’s degree from Christian Brothers University and a JD from the University of Memphis. He has written two entries on McCarthy for the DICTIONARY OF LITERARY BIOGRAPHY. His writing is also featured in exchanges with Peter Josyph in CORMAC MCCARTHY’S HOUSE: READING MCCARTHY WITHOUT WALLS and TH...
Jul 09, 2021•57 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Episode 12 of READING MCCARTHY is a thorough rumination of the influences of Nobel Prize winner William Faulkner on the works and style of Cormac McCarthy. Our guest today is Faulkner scholar and critic Dr. Jay Watson. Jay Watson is Distinguished Professor of English and Howry Professor of Faulkner Studies at the University of Mississippi, where he also directs the annual Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha conference. He is author or editor of thirteen books, most recently a monograph, WILLIAM FAULKNE...
Jun 18, 2021•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 12
Episode 11 of READING MCCARTHY is a deep consideration of perhaps McCarthy’s most troubling novel, CHILD OF GOD. Our guest today is Dr. Bill Hardwig, who was with us before for a discussion of the southern gothic. Bill Hardwig is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Tennessee. His book Upon Provincialism: Southern Literature and National Periodical Culture, 1870-1900 was published by the University of Virginia Press in 2013. He has edited critical editions of In the Tennessee M...
Jun 04, 2021•57 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Episode 10 of Reading McCarthy welcomes as a guest McCarthy’s translator into Portuguese, Paulo Faria. Paulo Faria was born in 1967, in Lisbon, Portugal. He graduated in Biology and teaches science, but he always had a passion for literature. He became a literary translator as a young man. In 2016 he published his first novel, «Strange war of common use», and his third novel has just been published in Portugal. He has translated each of McCarthy’s novels into Portuguese. This wide-ranging conver...
May 21, 2021•45 min•Season 1Ep. 10
READING MCCARTHY is a podcast devoted to the consideration and discussion of the works of one of our greatest American writers, Cormac McCarthy. Each episode calls upon different well-known Cormackian readers and scholars to help us explore different works and various essential aspects of McCarthy’s writing. Scott Yarbrough is your host in these deep dives into the world of McCarthy. Episode 9 of Reading McCarthy welcomes back Dr. Steven Frye in a consideration of the influence of American autho...
May 07, 2021•55 min•Season 1Ep. 9
READING MCCARTHY is a podcast devoted to the consideration and discussion of the works of one of our greatest American writers, Cormac McCarthy. Stacey Peebles joins the podcast for this episode. Dr. Peebles is Chair of the English program, Director of Film Studies, and the Marlene and David Grissom Professor of Humanities at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. She is the author of Welcome to the Suck: Narrating the American Soldier's Experience in Iraq (published in 2011) and Cormac McCarthy ...
Apr 23, 2021•38 min•Season 1Ep. 8
READING MCCARTHY is a podcast devoted to the consideration and discussion of the works of one of our greatest American writers, Cormac McCarthy. Each episode calls upon different well-known Cormackian readers and scholars (and occasional other folks of interest) to help us explore different works and various essential aspects of McCarthy’s writing. Scott Yarbrough is your host in these deep dives into the world of McCarthy. The guest for this episode is a different member of the McCarthy gang, D...
Apr 09, 2021•1 hr
READING MCCARTHY is a podcast devoted to the consideration and discussion of the works of one of our greatest American writers, Cormac McCarthy. Each episode calls upon different well-known Cormackian readers and scholars to help us explore different works and various essential aspects of McCarthy’s writing. Scott Yarbrough is your host in these deep dives into the world of McCarthy. This episode is a consideration of McCarthy in the context of Southern Literature. Today’s guest is Bryan Giemza,...
Mar 26, 2021•52 min•Season 1Ep. 6
READING MCCARTHY is a podcast devoted to the consideration and discussion of the works of one of our greatest American writers, Cormac McCarthy. Each episode calls upon different well-known Cormackian readers and scholars to help us explore different works and various essential aspects of McCarthy’s writing. Scott Yarbrough is your host in these deep dives into the world of McCarthy. This episode is a consideration of McCarthy’s second novel, Outer Dark. Our guest is Nell Sullivan. Dr. Sullivan ...
Mar 12, 2021•41 min
READING MCCARTHY is a podcast devoted to the consideration and discussion of the works of one of our greatest American writers, Cormac McCarthy. Each episode calls upon different well-known Cormackian readers and scholars to help us explore different works and various essential aspects of McCarthy’s writing. Scott Yarbrough is your host in these deep dives into the world of McCarthy. This episode considers the Southern Gothic and the Grotesque as it relates to the work of Cormac McCarthy. Our gu...
Feb 26, 2021•36 min•Season 1Ep. 4
READING MCCARTHY is a podcast devoted to the consideration and discussion of the works of one of our greatest American writers, Cormac McCarthy. Each episode calls upon different well-known Cormackian readers and scholars to help us explore different works and various essential aspects of McCarthy’s writing. Scott Yarbrough is your host in these deep dives into the world of McCarthy. Episode 3 is a thorough consideration of McCarthy’s first novel, The Orchard Keeper. Our guest from Episode 2, Di...
Feb 12, 2021•45 min•Season 1Ep. 3
READING MCCARTHY is a podcast devoted to the consideration and discussion of the works of one of our greatest American writers, Cormac McCarthy. Each episode calls upon different well-known Cormackian readers and scholars to help us explore different works and various essential aspects of McCarthy’s writing. Scott Yarbrough is your host in these deep dives into the world of McCarthy. This second episode is in preparation of delving into McCarthy’s first novel, The Orchard Keeper. The guest this ...
Jan 29, 2021•28 min•Season 1Ep. 2
READING MCCARTHY is a podcast devoted to the consideration and discussion of the works of one of our greatest American writers, Cormac McCarthy. Each episode calls upon different well-known Cormackian readers and scholars to help us explore different works and various essential aspects of McCarthy’s writing. Scott Yarbrough is your host in these deep dives into the world of McCarthy. The guest this episode is Steve Frye. Steve Frye is professor and chair of English at California State University...
Jan 18, 2021•27 min•Ep. 1
