Remembering Cormac McCarthy, Part 1
Close Reads Podcast
Goldberry Studios
4.4 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
The great Cormac McCarthy died last week, leaving behind a canon of brilliant, challenging novels that will be long-remembered. So this week we’re sharing two episode remembering the man, discussing his work, and sharing what he means to us. In this first episode, David and Tim sit down to make a Mount Rushmore of McCarthy’s work and to discuss how his work will be remembered.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, this is David Kern. Welcome to this very special episode of the podcast. We lost a literary |
| 0:10.3 | legend earlier this week. Cormac McCarthy died on Tuesday. Today is Thursday, June 15th, and today |
| 0:17.9 | we are going to be recording two sort of commemorative episodes, two episodes |
| 0:23.9 | where we think about what Kormac McCarthy means and discuss some of his best works, |
| 0:31.0 | discuss some of our favorite passages, and generally just remember that he, you know, |
| 0:35.8 | this literary titan. This first episode is going to be a conversation that he, you know, this literary titan. |
| 0:42.0 | This first episode is going to be a conversation that I had with Tim this morning. |
| 0:45.1 | So Tim and I recorded this about an hour ago. |
| 0:51.6 | We discussed our Mount Rushmore of Cormac McCarthy books and what we think his, |
| 0:53.8 | his contribution is to American letters. |
| 0:56.9 | Later on today, I'm going to be recording with Sean and Heidi part two of this conversation. |
| 0:59.0 | So up first, Tim and I, coming up later, Sean and Heidi and I, |
| 1:03.7 | and just wanted to discuss McCarthy and share these episodes with you. |
| 1:07.7 | So with that, here's my conversation with Tim. |
| 1:10.8 | Hope you enjoy it. |
| 1:11.8 | And rest in peace, Cormac McCarthy, Memory Eternal. |
| 1:16.3 | Okay. |
| 1:17.1 | So I'm here with Tim now. |
| 1:18.7 | Tim, we had to talk about Cormac McCarthy. |
| 1:24.3 | And when we were texting in our group chat about his death, you were expressing, you know, |
| 1:32.4 | I think the phrase you said was, I'm just genuinely sad. |
| 1:35.5 | Yeah. |
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