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45564766 (September 4, 2008 at 4:44 am)
Oprah is a total nincompoop, but she chose a bunch of lousy, trendy novels for her book club, and it became a punchline. So then she started reading 'classics' which are always safe if you want to seem smart, and then McCarthy published The Road, and it never hurts to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
She might be the most fawning, sycophantic interviewer on television. He did the interview because he knows how many people she reaches, and his book is a warning that he wants to get out.
Razorplated (September 3, 2008 at 8:34 pm)
deffinatley 60 minutes
bseckard (September 2, 2008 at 7:55 pm)
Dear lord! Opraph is an AWFUL interviewer. WTF is McCarthy doing here? He should have done a spot with "60 Minutes" or with Charlie Rose. Now THAT would have produced some interesting answers. Oprah asks questions one would expect from a lame nightly news caster.
discosanchez (August 31, 2008 at 2:23 am)
She does make them comfortable, but she asks them awful, banal questions.
Jdat112 (August 30, 2008 at 5:48 am)
oprah gives the best interviews. She makes the subject feel comfortable and gets people to speak openly about what's on their mind.
GallagherXXX (August 29, 2008 at 10:03 pm)
Roth is way better than "Alien baby" McCarthy (check out Alien Resurrection's end, where the baby alien is!).
cfotoole (August 29, 2008 at 7:26 am)
In 1983, Benjamin De Mott wrote, in his review of Mark Helprin's Winter's Tale, "There's far more that I would wish to say about the book - so much more that I find myself nervous, to a degree I don't recall in my past as a reviewer, about failing the work, inadequately displaying its brilliance." Every time I try to convince someone I know to read a book by McCarthy-Suttree, Blood Meridian, etc-I feel the same way. For the purposes of a critical essay, though, I wouldn't worry about that side.
fortsmithhhh (August 28, 2008 at 9:36 am)
Relax. You can not write on a great writer like this without some careful consideration. McCarthy writes in a tradition begun by James Joyce, followed by Faulkner and marveled at by scores of modern writers. If you want to write on McCarthy, read first on Joyce, read then on Faulkner....then read Suttree. You can not reinvent the wheel. Grab a spoke of the wheel, and hang the fuck on. It's worth it. E me if you want some help cary_toddATyahooDOTcom
best regards,
ct
fortsmithhhh (August 28, 2008 at 9:25 am)
Relax. You can not write on a great writer like this without some careful consideration. McCarthy writes in a tradition begun by James Joyce, followed by Faulkner and marveled at by scores of modern writers. If you want to write on McCarthy, read first on Joyce, read then on Faulkner....then read Suttree. You can not reinvent the wheel. Grab a spoke of the wheel, and hang the fuck on. It's worth it. E me if you want some help cary_toddATyahooDOTcom
best regards,
ct
s7rugg1es (August 26, 2008 at 10:13 pm)
i assigned this to my h.s. students as well as ATPH and many of them felt the same way. Where do we start? I would start with the symbol of carrying the fire. |
