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Two Years After Cormac McCarthy’s Death, Rare Access to His Personal Library Reveals the Man Behind the Myth

The famously reclusive novelist amassed a collection of thousands of books ranging in topics from philosophical treatises to advanced mathematics to the naked mole-rat

By Richard Grant

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/two-years-cormac-mccarthys-death-rare-access-to-personal-library-reveals-man-behind-myth-180987150/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=93133550

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Photo portrait of American author Cormac McCarthy used as the first-edition back cover of his 1973 novel Child of God. The photo portrait of Cormac McCarthy, used on the back cover of the first edition of Child of God (1973), presents the author in a stark, unadorned style. McCarthy is shown in black and white, his face turned slightly toward the camera with a calm, contemplative expression. His features are sharply defined — high forehead, dark hair combed back, strong jawline. He wears a simple collared shirt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cormac_McCarthy#/media/File:Cormac_McCarthy_(Child_of_God_author_portrait_-_high-res).jpg
Photo portrait of American author Cormac McCarthy used as the first-edition back cover of his 1973 novel Child of God. The photo portrait of Cormac McCarthy, used on the back cover of the first edition of Child of God (1973), presents the author in a stark, unadorned style. McCarthy is shown in black and white, his face turned slightly toward the camera with a calm, contemplative expression. His features are sharply defined — high forehead, dark hair combed back, strong jawline. He wears a simple collared shirt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cormac_McCarthy#/media/File:Cormac_McCarthy_(Child_of_God_author_portrait_-_high-res).jpg
Photo portrait of American author Cormac McCarthy used as the first-edition back cover of his 1973 novel Child of God. The photo portrait of Cormac McCarthy, used on the back cover of the first edition of Child of God (1973), presents the author in a stark, unadorned style. McCarthy is shown in black and white, his face turned slightly toward the camera with a calm, contemplative expression. His features are sharply defined — high forehead, dark hair combed back, strong jawline. He wears a simple collared shirt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cormac_McCarthy#/media/File:Cormac_McCarthy_(Child_of_God_author_portrait_-_high-res).jpg
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@gutenberg_org@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 hours ago

Two Years After Cormac McCarthy’s Death, Rare Access to His Personal Library Reveals the Man Behind the Myth

The famously reclusive novelist amassed a collection of thousands of books ranging in topics from philosophical treatises to advanced mathematics to the naked mole-rat

By Richard Grant

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/two-years-cormac-mccarthys-death-rare-access-to-personal-library-reveals-man-behind-myth-180987150/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=93133550

#books #literature

Photo portrait of American author Cormac McCarthy used as the first-edition back cover of his 1973 novel Child of God. The photo portrait of Cormac McCarthy, used on the back cover of the first edition of Child of God (1973), presents the author in a stark, unadorned style. McCarthy is shown in black and white, his face turned slightly toward the camera with a calm, contemplative expression. His features are sharply defined — high forehead, dark hair combed back, strong jawline. He wears a simple collared shirt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cormac_McCarthy#/media/File:Cormac_McCarthy_(Child_of_God_author_portrait_-_high-res).jpg
Photo portrait of American author Cormac McCarthy used as the first-edition back cover of his 1973 novel Child of God. The photo portrait of Cormac McCarthy, used on the back cover of the first edition of Child of God (1973), presents the author in a stark, unadorned style. McCarthy is shown in black and white, his face turned slightly toward the camera with a calm, contemplative expression. His features are sharply defined — high forehead, dark hair combed back, strong jawline. He wears a simple collared shirt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cormac_McCarthy#/media/File:Cormac_McCarthy_(Child_of_God_author_portrait_-_high-res).jpg
Photo portrait of American author Cormac McCarthy used as the first-edition back cover of his 1973 novel Child of God. The photo portrait of Cormac McCarthy, used on the back cover of the first edition of Child of God (1973), presents the author in a stark, unadorned style. McCarthy is shown in black and white, his face turned slightly toward the camera with a calm, contemplative expression. His features are sharply defined — high forehead, dark hair combed back, strong jawline. He wears a simple collared shirt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cormac_McCarthy#/media/File:Cormac_McCarthy_(Child_of_God_author_portrait_-_high-res).jpg
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“What we need are people who are prepared to be unpopular. Who are prepared to put themselves in danger. Who are prepared to tell the truth. Brave journalists can do that, and they have. Brave lawyers can do that, and they have. And artists — beautiful, brilliant, brave writers, poets, musicians, painters and filmmakers can do that.

That beauty is on our side.

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#Books#MotherMaryComesToMe#ArundhatiRoy #literature

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“What we need are people who are prepared to be unpopular. Who are prepared to put themselves in danger. Who are prepared to tell the truth. Brave journalists can do that, and they have. Brave lawyers can do that, and they have. And artists — beautiful, brilliant, brave writers, poets, musicians, painters and filmmakers can do that.

That beauty is on our side.

All of it.”

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@Exilian@indiepocalypse.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

This week’s archive article is a considerably sillier one, with Jubal diving into the world of Shakespeare, mashing famous plays up with famous modern films, and then seeing what the resulting plots might look like…

You can read “Shakespeare: The Expanded Film Universe” here:
https://exilian.co.uk/forum/index.php?msg=116720

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Exilian
@Exilian@indiepocalypse.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

This week’s archive article is a considerably sillier one, with Jubal diving into the world of Shakespeare, mashing famous plays up with famous modern films, and then seeing what the resulting plots might look like…

You can read “Shakespeare: The Expanded Film Universe” here:
https://exilian.co.uk/forum/index.php?msg=116720

Do give us a boost if you know anyone else who might enjoy this! :)

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Assoc for Scottish Literature
@scotlit@mastodon.scot  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

Brutalised Africans made Glasgow
amazing disgrace, how sweet the civic amnesia…
mansions without plaques
unrevised street names
no memorial.

—Kate Tough, “People Made Glasgow”

“A contemporary sickness has its roots in unredressed wrongs”

Today, 23 August, is the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade & its Abolition

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/people-made-glasgow/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry#Glasgow #slavery #abolition#SlaveryHistory #RememberSlavery

People Made Glasgow Kate Tough Shame in our hulls why else would we drink to incoherence jump on the heads of passing men punch our women tell our children in a checkout queue, ‘Ah hate bank holidays cuz it means Ah huftae look at youse fir three days no two.’ The whip’s crack comes a little after the whip’s stroke. People Make Glasgow obese, rotten-mouthed stroke-felled, emphysemic tumour-choked aye, an proud ae it. What we murdered them for we kill ourselves with. The whip’s crack comes a little after the whip’s stroke. Brutalised Africans made Glasgow amazing disgrace, how sweet the civic amnesia… mansions without plaques unrevised street names no memorial. So, sign-up for the new city tour – The Glasgow Merchant Experience! below deck on the Waverley 100 unclothed families close-chained to plank beds 30 dead since it left Dunoon! On the dock, a real live auction! Feel the excitement as you bid for your very own slave!
People Made Glasgow Kate Tough Shame in our hulls why else would we drink to incoherence jump on the heads of passing men punch our women tell our children in a checkout queue, ‘Ah hate bank holidays cuz it means Ah huftae look at youse fir three days no two.’ The whip’s crack comes a little after the whip’s stroke. People Make Glasgow obese, rotten-mouthed stroke-felled, emphysemic tumour-choked aye, an proud ae it. What we murdered them for we kill ourselves with. The whip’s crack comes a little after the whip’s stroke. Brutalised Africans made Glasgow amazing disgrace, how sweet the civic amnesia… mansions without plaques unrevised street names no memorial. So, sign-up for the new city tour – The Glasgow Merchant Experience! below deck on the Waverley 100 unclothed families close-chained to plank beds 30 dead since it left Dunoon! On the dock, a real live auction! Feel the excitement as you bid for your very own slave!
People Made Glasgow Kate Tough Shame in our hulls why else would we drink to incoherence jump on the heads of passing men punch our women tell our children in a checkout queue, ‘Ah hate bank holidays cuz it means Ah huftae look at youse fir three days no two.’ The whip’s crack comes a little after the whip’s stroke. People Make Glasgow obese, rotten-mouthed stroke-felled, emphysemic tumour-choked aye, an proud ae it. What we murdered them for we kill ourselves with. The whip’s crack comes a little after the whip’s stroke. Brutalised Africans made Glasgow amazing disgrace, how sweet the civic amnesia… mansions without plaques unrevised street names no memorial. So, sign-up for the new city tour – The Glasgow Merchant Experience! below deck on the Waverley 100 unclothed families close-chained to plank beds 30 dead since it left Dunoon! On the dock, a real live auction! Feel the excitement as you bid for your very own slave!
Assoc for Scottish Literature
@scotlit@mastodon.scot  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

Brutalised Africans made Glasgow
amazing disgrace, how sweet the civic amnesia…
mansions without plaques
unrevised street names
no memorial.

—Kate Tough, “People Made Glasgow”

“A contemporary sickness has its roots in unredressed wrongs”

Today, 23 August, is the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade & its Abolition

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/people-made-glasgow/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry#Glasgow #slavery #abolition#SlaveryHistory #RememberSlavery

People Made Glasgow Kate Tough Shame in our hulls why else would we drink to incoherence jump on the heads of passing men punch our women tell our children in a checkout queue, ‘Ah hate bank holidays cuz it means Ah huftae look at youse fir three days no two.’ The whip’s crack comes a little after the whip’s stroke. People Make Glasgow obese, rotten-mouthed stroke-felled, emphysemic tumour-choked aye, an proud ae it. What we murdered them for we kill ourselves with. The whip’s crack comes a little after the whip’s stroke. Brutalised Africans made Glasgow amazing disgrace, how sweet the civic amnesia… mansions without plaques unrevised street names no memorial. So, sign-up for the new city tour – The Glasgow Merchant Experience! below deck on the Waverley 100 unclothed families close-chained to plank beds 30 dead since it left Dunoon! On the dock, a real live auction! Feel the excitement as you bid for your very own slave!
People Made Glasgow Kate Tough Shame in our hulls why else would we drink to incoherence jump on the heads of passing men punch our women tell our children in a checkout queue, ‘Ah hate bank holidays cuz it means Ah huftae look at youse fir three days no two.’ The whip’s crack comes a little after the whip’s stroke. People Make Glasgow obese, rotten-mouthed stroke-felled, emphysemic tumour-choked aye, an proud ae it. What we murdered them for we kill ourselves with. The whip’s crack comes a little after the whip’s stroke. Brutalised Africans made Glasgow amazing disgrace, how sweet the civic amnesia… mansions without plaques unrevised street names no memorial. So, sign-up for the new city tour – The Glasgow Merchant Experience! below deck on the Waverley 100 unclothed families close-chained to plank beds 30 dead since it left Dunoon! On the dock, a real live auction! Feel the excitement as you bid for your very own slave!
People Made Glasgow Kate Tough Shame in our hulls why else would we drink to incoherence jump on the heads of passing men punch our women tell our children in a checkout queue, ‘Ah hate bank holidays cuz it means Ah huftae look at youse fir three days no two.’ The whip’s crack comes a little after the whip’s stroke. People Make Glasgow obese, rotten-mouthed stroke-felled, emphysemic tumour-choked aye, an proud ae it. What we murdered them for we kill ourselves with. The whip’s crack comes a little after the whip’s stroke. Brutalised Africans made Glasgow amazing disgrace, how sweet the civic amnesia… mansions without plaques unrevised street names no memorial. So, sign-up for the new city tour – The Glasgow Merchant Experience! below deck on the Waverley 100 unclothed families close-chained to plank beds 30 dead since it left Dunoon! On the dock, a real live auction! Feel the excitement as you bid for your very own slave!
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Assoc for Scottish Literature
@scotlit@mastodon.scot  ·  activity timestamp last week

this is thi
six a clock
news thi
man said n
thi reason
a talk wia
BBC accent
iz coz yi
widny wahnt
mi ti talk
aboot thi
trooth wia
voice lik
wanna yoo
scruff. if
a toktaboot
thi trooth
lik wanna yoo
scruff yi
widny thingk
it wuz troo.
jist wanna yoo
scruff tokn.

—Tom Leonard, “The Six O’Clock News”
🎂 Tom Leonard, 22 Aug 1944

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry#Glasgow #Glaswegian #voice#Scots#Scotslanguage#TomLeonard

The Six O’Clock News Tom Leonard this is thi six a clock news thi man said n thi reason a talk wia BBC accent iz coz yi widny wahnt mi ti talk aboot thi trooth wia voice lik wanna yoo scruff. if a toktaboot thi trooth lik wanna yoo scruff yi widny thingk it wuz troo. jist wanna yoo scruff tokn. thirza right way ti spell ana right way to tok it. this is me tokn yir right way a spellin. this is ma trooth. yooz doant no thi trooth yirsellz cawz yi canny talk right. this is the six a clock nyooz. belt up.
The Six O’Clock News Tom Leonard this is thi six a clock news thi man said n thi reason a talk wia BBC accent iz coz yi widny wahnt mi ti talk aboot thi trooth wia voice lik wanna yoo scruff. if a toktaboot thi trooth lik wanna yoo scruff yi widny thingk it wuz troo. jist wanna yoo scruff tokn. thirza right way ti spell ana right way to tok it. this is me tokn yir right way a spellin. this is ma trooth. yooz doant no thi trooth yirsellz cawz yi canny talk right. this is the six a clock nyooz. belt up.
The Six O’Clock News Tom Leonard this is thi six a clock news thi man said n thi reason a talk wia BBC accent iz coz yi widny wahnt mi ti talk aboot thi trooth wia voice lik wanna yoo scruff. if a toktaboot thi trooth lik wanna yoo scruff yi widny thingk it wuz troo. jist wanna yoo scruff tokn. thirza right way ti spell ana right way to tok it. this is me tokn yir right way a spellin. this is ma trooth. yooz doant no thi trooth yirsellz cawz yi canny talk right. this is the six a clock nyooz. belt up.
Assoc for Scottish Literature
@scotlit@mastodon.scot  ·  activity timestamp last week

this is thi
six a clock
news thi
man said n
thi reason
a talk wia
BBC accent
iz coz yi
widny wahnt
mi ti talk
aboot thi
trooth wia
voice lik
wanna yoo
scruff. if
a toktaboot
thi trooth
lik wanna yoo
scruff yi
widny thingk
it wuz troo.
jist wanna yoo
scruff tokn.

—Tom Leonard, “The Six O’Clock News”
🎂 Tom Leonard, 22 Aug 1944

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry#Glasgow #Glaswegian #voice#Scots#Scotslanguage#TomLeonard

The Six O’Clock News Tom Leonard this is thi six a clock news thi man said n thi reason a talk wia BBC accent iz coz yi widny wahnt mi ti talk aboot thi trooth wia voice lik wanna yoo scruff. if a toktaboot thi trooth lik wanna yoo scruff yi widny thingk it wuz troo. jist wanna yoo scruff tokn. thirza right way ti spell ana right way to tok it. this is me tokn yir right way a spellin. this is ma trooth. yooz doant no thi trooth yirsellz cawz yi canny talk right. this is the six a clock nyooz. belt up.
The Six O’Clock News Tom Leonard this is thi six a clock news thi man said n thi reason a talk wia BBC accent iz coz yi widny wahnt mi ti talk aboot thi trooth wia voice lik wanna yoo scruff. if a toktaboot thi trooth lik wanna yoo scruff yi widny thingk it wuz troo. jist wanna yoo scruff tokn. thirza right way ti spell ana right way to tok it. this is me tokn yir right way a spellin. this is ma trooth. yooz doant no thi trooth yirsellz cawz yi canny talk right. this is the six a clock nyooz. belt up.
The Six O’Clock News Tom Leonard this is thi six a clock news thi man said n thi reason a talk wia BBC accent iz coz yi widny wahnt mi ti talk aboot thi trooth wia voice lik wanna yoo scruff. if a toktaboot thi trooth lik wanna yoo scruff yi widny thingk it wuz troo. jist wanna yoo scruff tokn. thirza right way ti spell ana right way to tok it. this is me tokn yir right way a spellin. this is ma trooth. yooz doant no thi trooth yirsellz cawz yi canny talk right. this is the six a clock nyooz. belt up.
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@scotlit@mastodon.scot replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

Tom Leonard reads “The Six O’Clock News”

🎂 Tom Leonard, 22 Aug 1944

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZaxEbhibdw

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry#Glasgow #Glaswegian #voice#Scots#Scotslanguage#TomLeonard
Assoc for Scottish Literature
@scotlit@mastodon.scot  ·  activity timestamp last week

this is thi
six a clock
news thi
man said n
thi reason
a talk wia
BBC accent
iz coz yi
widny wahnt
mi ti talk
aboot thi
trooth wia
voice lik
wanna yoo
scruff. if
a toktaboot
thi trooth
lik wanna yoo
scruff yi
widny thingk
it wuz troo.
jist wanna yoo
scruff tokn.

—Tom Leonard, “The Six O’Clock News”
🎂 Tom Leonard, 22 Aug 1944

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry#Glasgow #Glaswegian #voice#Scots#Scotslanguage#TomLeonard

The Six O’Clock News Tom Leonard this is thi six a clock news thi man said n thi reason a talk wia BBC accent iz coz yi widny wahnt mi ti talk aboot thi trooth wia voice lik wanna yoo scruff. if a toktaboot thi trooth lik wanna yoo scruff yi widny thingk it wuz troo. jist wanna yoo scruff tokn. thirza right way ti spell ana right way to tok it. this is me tokn yir right way a spellin. this is ma trooth. yooz doant no thi trooth yirsellz cawz yi canny talk right. this is the six a clock nyooz. belt up.
The Six O’Clock News Tom Leonard this is thi six a clock news thi man said n thi reason a talk wia BBC accent iz coz yi widny wahnt mi ti talk aboot thi trooth wia voice lik wanna yoo scruff. if a toktaboot thi trooth lik wanna yoo scruff yi widny thingk it wuz troo. jist wanna yoo scruff tokn. thirza right way ti spell ana right way to tok it. this is me tokn yir right way a spellin. this is ma trooth. yooz doant no thi trooth yirsellz cawz yi canny talk right. this is the six a clock nyooz. belt up.
The Six O’Clock News Tom Leonard this is thi six a clock news thi man said n thi reason a talk wia BBC accent iz coz yi widny wahnt mi ti talk aboot thi trooth wia voice lik wanna yoo scruff. if a toktaboot thi trooth lik wanna yoo scruff yi widny thingk it wuz troo. jist wanna yoo scruff tokn. thirza right way ti spell ana right way to tok it. this is me tokn yir right way a spellin. this is ma trooth. yooz doant no thi trooth yirsellz cawz yi canny talk right. this is the six a clock nyooz. belt up.