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Reading McCarthy

@MccarthyReading

A podcast hosted by Scott Yarbrough and guest Cormackians on the works, themes, and backgrounds of writer Cormac McCarthy.

Reading McCarthy repostou

“Hurrah for Karamazov!” Ending this thread by quoting Charles Bukowski’s poem on Dostoevsky. “I was glad they gave Dostoevsky a reprieve, it gave me one”

btwn_dimensions's tweet image. “Hurrah for Karamazov!”

Ending this thread by quoting Charles Bukowski’s poem on Dostoevsky.

“I was glad they gave Dostoevsky a
reprieve,
it gave me one”

Reading McCarthy repostou

“Great works of Literature neither ‘harm’ nor ‘help’ Readers, but rather allow them to enjoy their solitude. Art isn’t trauma or therapy, but a third secret thing.”

AmericanGwyn's tweet image. “Great works of Literature neither ‘harm’ nor ‘help’ Readers, but rather allow them to enjoy their solitude. Art isn’t trauma or therapy, but a third secret thing.”

Insisting a core piece of a traditional curriculum be abandoned is a big step, one that should only be taken if the harm of reading the work is large enough to justify the loss in learning that would result from dropping it



Reading McCarthy repostou

They ate and moved on, leaving the fire on the ground behind them, and as they rode up into the mountains this fire seemed to become altered of its location, now here, now there, drawing away, or shifting unaccountably along the flank of their movement.


Reading McCarthy repostou

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.


Reading McCarthy repostou

Ernest Hemingway’s book recommendations: The Blue Hotel – Crane The Open Boat – Crane Madame Bovary – Flaubert Dubliners – Joyce The Red and the Black – Stendhal Of Human Bondage – Maugham Anna Karenina – Tolstoy War and Peace – Tolstoy

johnstonglenn's tweet image. Ernest Hemingway’s book recommendations:

The Blue Hotel – Crane
The Open Boat – Crane
Madame Bovary – Flaubert
Dubliners – Joyce
The Red and the Black – Stendhal
Of Human Bondage – Maugham
Anna Karenina – Tolstoy
War and Peace – Tolstoy

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