This whipsawing picaresque is McCarthy’s longest (and perhaps most autobiographical) novel and reflects the height of his sardonic humor. Knopf, via Associated Press In “The Passenger ...

“The Passenger” and “Stella Maris” are ... (JTA) – The acclaimed novelist Cormac McCarthy is known for his haunting, apocalyptic depictions of the American South and West.

Scholar Dianne C. Luce notes that at the time, Cormac McCarthy was living in Knoxville, just a couple hours up the highway from Chattanooga, where the local papers also covered the Lula Lake murders.

Cormac McCarthy is the greatest living novelist. It’s actually strange that he and Houellebecq aren’t compared more often since both write from a similar worldview about similar topics.

Cormac McCarthy, the formidable and reclusive writer of Appalachia and the American Southwest, died on June 12, 2023, at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. McCarthy’s fiction took a dark view of ...

Cormac McCarthy's 11th book, The Passenger, was released six weeks before Stella Maris, which together make up books one and two of the "Passenger Series". The Passenger follows Bobby and Alicia ...