All the Pretty Horses
Finishing out this nostalgic trilogy of posts on my favorites of 2006:
It was announced on Wednesday that Oprah has picked Cormac McCarthy's The Road for her industry-shaking Book Club.
There is a lot to be said about Oprah's sins - Dr. Phil, Rachael Ray, James Frey - but this is pretty awesome.
McCarthy is amazing and notoriously press shy. Like Pynchon bad. Apparently he has only done two interviews in the past 40 years and has never appeared on television. Watching him sit down on Oprah's couch to discuss his "violent" and "grotesque" post-apocalyptic novel should be interesting to say the least.
And The Road is bleak. We are talking Emma Gross refused to read bleak.
And thanks to Oprah now all of you can purchase the book on the cheap.
Seriously though. The Road is simply stunning -- and, now that I think about it, not all that unlike my favorite movie of the year.
But don't take my word for it.
It was announced on Wednesday that Oprah has picked Cormac McCarthy's The Road for her industry-shaking Book Club.
There is a lot to be said about Oprah's sins - Dr. Phil, Rachael Ray, James Frey - but this is pretty awesome.
McCarthy is amazing and notoriously press shy. Like Pynchon bad. Apparently he has only done two interviews in the past 40 years and has never appeared on television. Watching him sit down on Oprah's couch to discuss his "violent" and "grotesque" post-apocalyptic novel should be interesting to say the least.
And The Road is bleak. We are talking Emma Gross refused to read bleak.
And thanks to Oprah now all of you can purchase the book on the cheap.
Seriously though. The Road is simply stunning -- and, now that I think about it, not all that unlike my favorite movie of the year.
But don't take my word for it.
posted by d l wright at 3/31/2007 02:50:00 PM
1 Comments:
hey logan, funny you should mention my name since i've spent the last few weeks overdosing on Cormac McCarthy who in my inexpert opinion is the best writer of the 20th century (after 1930, of course). What a writer! The sound of his writing, as I've mentioned to Janet, is like tom-toms beating, rivers pulsing, and Mexican singing. The content ain't bad either. If you want bleak--depraved--black and red--read Blood Meridan. can't put it down, even long enough to go throw up.
cheers from Emma Gross.
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