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Reading McCarthyEpisode 61: Part One of Seeking Guidance for THE COUNSELORFull disclosure time here on the READING MCCARTHY podcast. When Ridley Scott’s film The Counselor arrived in theaters with its very own shiny McCarthy screenplay, I was underwhelmed. We’d been waiting for over half a decade for The Passenger and had no idea we’d be almost another ten years waiting for that project (and of course we had no concept of Stella Maris at the time). I found interesting elements in the film but didn’t think it held together. But people smarter than me (such as my three guests in this program) convinced me to return to...
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Great American NovelEpisode 34: Riding the Rails with THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD by Colson WhiteheadSend us a textIn this, our 34th episode of the Great American Novel podcast, the hosts tackle Colson Whitehead’s intriguing, interesting, and in some surprising ways challenging award-winning 2016 novel, The Underground Railroad. This novel works with the premise that the antebellum freedom trail to the north for escaped slaves was not a series of safe houses and hiding spaces with the occasional guide, but instead an actual underground railway. How can something be in some plays completely and purposefully historically inaccurate yet also completely true at the same time? How does our knowledge of real life...
2025-06-231h 14Great American NovelEpisode 32: Watching the Flames from Slaughterhouse-FiveSend us a textIn Episode 32 of the Great American Novel podcast, we slip through time with Billy Pilgrim as we shuffle between the character’s experiences as a prisoner of war and first hand witness to the Dresden firebombing in World War II and then trip the light fantastic to the far flung planet Tralfamadore. Or…do we? Yes, this episode has your intrepid explorers hiding in Kurt Vonnegut’s masterful 1969 post-modern novel SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE. We ponder the author’s central questions: are all war novels doomed to sensationalize war? Can you capture such a horrific experience realistical...
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Our Numinous NatureWILLIAM FAULKNER'S BEAR, BIG WOODS & OLD SOUTH | English Professor | Scott YarbroughDr. Scott Yarbrough, PhD is a professor of English at Charleston Southern University, as well as the host of two literary podcasts, Reading McCarthy & Great American Novel out of Charleston, South Carolina. This episode is dedicated to the hunting novella "The Bear" by America's 20th-century literary master, William Faulkner. After a reading, we begin with Faulkner's biography as Scott describes the major themes within his writing: the southern gothic push back to the over-romanticization of the old south; race & the aftermath of slavery; time & history; and the tension between loving & hating where one comes from. Then we turn to...
2025-02-062h 01Great American NovelEpisode 30: Sailing on the SHIP OF FOOLSSend us a textA couple of weeks ago—after this episode was recorded, but before it was edited and posted—the famous author Stephen King posted online his top ten novels of all time—and among them was Katherine Anne Porter’s Ship of Fools. This 1962 book was the first novel by Porter, a great American writer who had mostly worked in the short story genre and as a journalist and editor. The novel tells of a German passenger liner traveling from Mexico to different ports of Europe in the 1930s. It presents a multinational, highly varied cast...
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The Rainmaking PodcastTRP 205: How to Build Credibility with Jessica YarbroughIn this episode of The Rainmaking Podcast, host Scott Love speaks with Jessica Yarbrough, business strategist and growth expert, about how professionals can build credibility and scale their business. Jessica explains that credibility is the foundation of business success, and the most effective way to establish it is by teaching and sharing expertise. She emphasizes that professionals must position themselves as industry authorities by educating their audience through videos, articles, podcasts, and speaking engagements. Rather than simply promoting services, experts should focus on showing how their solutions work to build trust with potential clients.Key topics include...
2024-07-1122 minGreat American NovelEpisode 28: Falling off the Cliff with The Catcher in the RyeSend us a textThe Great American Novel Podcast episode 28 considers JD Salinger’s landmark 1951 classic, The Catcher in the Rye. Your hosts discuss Salinger’s famous reclusiveness, the book’s continuing appeal, and its influence on both the genre of so-called “young adult literature” and post-breakdown lit. We examine the novel in its role of the creation of the American teenager as a marketing sector and artistic project. We don’t dodge the thorny issues of Salinger’s life while separating artist from the art, and perhaps we even disagree, just a little, on where we place this novel...
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Michigan Music History Podcast -- MMHP989Michigan Music History Podcast Season 4--Lafayette Yarbrough: Rockabilly & Beyond--A Michigan LegendThe Flint Music Scene was once his stomping grounds. Then came the rest of Michigan, from Saginaw to Detroit, to Canada and into the entire mid-west. Nothing could stop Lafayette Yarbrough as he briefly dominated AM Radio and was the talk of the town during his Lafayette and the LaSabres era. Weeks and sometimes months, playing up to seven nights around for a local stint, Yarbrough brought the rockabilly and pre-Elvis sound to many around the state. The man never stopped and continued into the past few decades, recording four albums with his wife Vada (a former musician sometimes...
2024-05-301h 17Reading McCarthyEpisode 51: Teaching McCarthy Round TableAlthough the fact often goes unacknowledged, it is a truth that sometimes an author’s residence within and endurance in the canon is a result of how that author is perceived and taught in the academy. Most literary scholars are also professors and teachers. For this episode of Reading McCarthy I round up some of the usual suspects for a panel discussion upon teaching the works of McCarthy to students. The guests include Stacey Peebles, Chair of the English program, Director of Film Studies, and the Marlene and David Grissom Professor of Humanities at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. She is...
2024-05-041h 27Great American NovelEpisode 26: Seekers of the Lonely Heart: Carson McCullers' The Heart Is a Lonely HunterSend us a textThe 26th episode of the Great American Novel Podcast delves into Carson McCullers’ 1940 debut novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. Published when the author was only 23, the novel tells the tale of a variety of misfits who don’t seem to belong in their small milltown in depression-era, 1930s Georgia. Tackling race, disability, sexuality, classism, socialism, the novel catapulted McCullers to fame. It’s been an Oprah book and it’s been adapted to film. The Modern Library chose it for its list of 100 best novels in English of the 20th Century. But the ques...
2024-03-071h 03Reading McCarthyEpisode 48: Tearing Down the Walls of THE STONEMASON with Nick MonkThe guest for this episode is Dr. Nick Monk, who joins me for a consideration of perhaps McCarthy’s most idiosyncratic work. The 90s were an exciting time for McCarthy fans. In 92 he published the award winning All the Pretty Horses, followed two years later by the next installment in the Border Trilogy, The Crossing. Before he would go on to close out the trilogy in 98, however, in 1995 he also published a strange and fascinating play, The Stonemason. The play is about the Telfairs, a family of Black stone masons in Louisville, Kentucky. The play examines the mystical and perha...
2023-12-161h 03Reading McCarthyEpisode 47: McCarthy and Disability with Brent ClineEpisode 47 of READING MCCARTHY considers the author’s references to and uses of disability in its many forms. My guest DR BRENT CLINE. He has published articles and chapters involving disability on Walker Percy, James Agee, and Daniel Keyes. His review of The Passenger/Stella Maris was published with The University Bookman. He teaches a seminar on McCarthy every two years.As always, readers should beware: there be spoilers here.Thanks to Thomas Frye, who composed, performed, and produced the music for READING MCCARTHY. The views of the host and his guests do not necessarily reflec...
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TRUTH IN RHYTHM and Where’d You Get Your Funk From?TRUTH IN RHYTHM Podcast - Yarbrough & Peoples, Part 2 of 2** PLEASE SUBSCRIBE **
Brought to you by FUNKNSTUFF.NET and hosted by Scott "DR GX" Goldfine — musicologist and author of “Everything Is on THE ONE: The First Guide of Funk” ― “TRUTH IN RHYTHM” is the interview show that gets DEEP into the pocket with contemporary music’s foremost masters of the groove. Become a TRUTH IN RHYTHM Member through YouTube or at https://www.patreon.com/truthinrhythm.
Featured in TIR Episode 311 (Part 2 of 2): R&B singers, keyboardists and composers Cavin Yarbrough and Alisa Peoples, famously known as the duo Yarbrough and Peoples. All four of their early 1980s al...
2023-11-0438 minGreat American NovelEpisode 24: Speeding Down the Highway with PLAY IT AS IT LAYS by Joan DidionSend us a textGreat American Novel Podcast 24 considers Joan Didion’s 1970 novel Play It as It Lays, which shut the door on the 60s and sped down the freeway into the 70s, eyes on the rearview mirror all the while. In a wide-ranging discussion which touches not only upon Didion and her screenwriter husband but also John Wayne, Ernest Hemingway, the Manson cult, the Mamas and the Papas and Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, we drive down the interstate with Didion and her Corvette as we consider Hollywood, Las Vegas, the desert, Hippies and Hipsters, and the...
2023-11-031h 16TRUTH IN RHYTHM and Where’d You Get Your Funk From?TRUTH IN RHYTHM Podcast- Yarbrough & Peoples, Part 1 of 2** PLEASE SUBSCRIBE **
Brought to you by FUNKNSTUFF.NET and hosted by Scott "DR GX" Goldfine — musicologist and author of “Everything Is on THE ONE: The First Guide of Funk” ― “TRUTH IN RHYTHM” is the interview show that gets DEEP into the pocket with contemporary music’s foremost masters of the groove. Become a TRUTH IN RHYTHM Member through YouTube or at https://www.patreon.com/truthinrhythm.
Featured in TIR Episode 311 (Part 1 of 2): R&B singers, keyboardists and composers Cavin Yarbrough and Alisa Peoples, famously known as the duo Yarbrough and Peoples. All four of their early 1980s al...
2023-11-0347 min
An Academic OdysseyScott Yarbrough: Mentorship, Academic Publishing, and the Academic LifestyleIn our conversation with veteran professor and administrator Scott Yarbrough, we spend plenty of time on the "have and have not situation" of academia. Other topics we cover include the sources of mentorship and the demands of academic publishing.
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Frame RateFrame Rate - Legacyquels With My Father: Rocky pt. 2Part 2 of this special episode pulls no punches. Gary and his Father Jim get into the personal and political backgrounds of Rocky 4, and the meaning of legacy in Rocky 5 and Rocky Balboa.
2023-10-0836 minGreat American NovelEpisode 23: Hearing Voices in William Faulkner's AS I LAY DYINGSend us a textWilliam Faulkner's fifth published novel, As I Lay Dying (1930), is a self-described tour de force that the author cranked out in roughly two months while working as the night manager at the University of Mississippi power plant in his hometown of Oxford. This dark tragicomedy about a family on a quest to bury its matriarch helped win the author his early reputation for sadistically heaping woe and misfortune upon his Southern grotesques but has more recently come to be seen as a complex artistic effort to empathize with the often marginalized rural population...
2023-10-071h 25Reading McCarthyEpisode 46: Crossing the CITIES OF THE PLAIN with Bryan VescioIn this episode we ride to the end of the road in the last episode of the Border Trilogy, CITIES ON THE PLAIN. My guest for this foray is Dr. Bryan Vescio, Professor and Chair of English at High Point University in North Carolina. A guest on former episodes on faith and Suttree, Dr. Vescio is the author of the 2014 book Reconstruction in Literary Studies: An Informalist Approach, as well as numerous articles on American authors including Mark Twain, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Nathanael West, and, of course, Cormac McCarthy. As always, listeners should beware: there be spo...
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Frame RateFrame Rate - Legacyquels With My Father: Rocky pt. 1Put on your gloves and get ready to rumble. In the inaugural episode of this new series, distinguished Father and guest Jim Yarbrough joins the show for a nostalgic look back at the Rocky and Creed sagas.
2023-10-0133 minReading McCarthyEpisode 45: Tribute to McCarthy Part 3This is our final of 3 tribute episodes in the wake of Cormac McCarthy's passing this past June. Guests on this final tribute episode include: Dr. Steven Frye, professor and chair of English at California State University in Bakersfield. Steve has just stepped down as President of the Cormac McCarthy Society. He is the author of Understanding Cormac McCarthy (Univ. of South Carolina Press) and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Cormac McCarthy, and Cambridge UP’s Cormac McCarthy in Context. His book Unguessed Kinships: Naturalism and the Geography of Hope in Cormac McCarthy was released this past summe...
2023-09-111h 33Reading McCarthyEpisode 44: Tribute to Cormac, part the second.In the wake of Cormac McCarthy's passing on June 13, 2023, a number of excellent tributes and discussion pieces were published. In this second of three tribute episode, we've asked for permission for the authors to read some of those tributes to McCarthy here on the podcast and we have also solicited a couple of others. The guests this episode include: Stacey Peebles, Chair of the English program, Director of Film Studies, and the Marlene and David Grissom Professor of Humanities at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, author of Cormac McCarthy and Performance: Page, Stage, Screen (2017) and co-e...
2023-08-161h 01Great American NovelEpisode 22: Rambling Along the REVOLUTIONARY ROADSend us a textIn Great American Novel Podcast Episode 22, we wrestle with the old Thoreau quote "The majority of men lead lives of quiet desperation" as we delve into the soul-sapping mid-century suburbs in Richard Yates' 1961 novel Revolutionary Road. Join the hosts for a conversation that considers other suburban chroniclers such as Updike and Cheever and other treatments from the film adaptation to Mad Men to Seinfeld. Ultimately the hosts have to confront this essential question: not whether they should move to France, but whether we can call Revolutionary Road a Great American Novel? Listeners are warne...
2023-08-071h 12Reading McCarthyEpisode 43: Tribute to McCarthy, Part the FirstOn June 13, 2023, we lost a literary giant. Cormac McCarthy, the greatest writer of our time (in this podcast's completely unbiased opinion) passed away in Santa Fe, New Mexico, his home these past couple of decades. E-mails and queries started pouring in, mostly asking, "are you going to do a special tribute podcast? And the answer to that, is yes. Episode 43 is the first of 3 planned tribute episodes to McCarthy. Joining us for this first panel is a roundup of some of the usual suspects: Dianne Luce, founding founding member and past president of the Cormac McCart...
2023-07-291h 37Reading McCarthyEpisode 42: Fly them, Cormac. 16 Responses to "What is your favorite McCarthy novel, and why?"Like the rest of the world I learned this past Tuesday, June 13th, that Cormac McCarthy had passed away at the age of 89. This episode had already been recorded, but I thought it would still serve as an initial and quick response to the need to offer a tribute: it's a compilation of the responses to the question What's your favorite McCarthy novel, and why? from the podcast's first 16 guests. The guests responding to the "favorite book and why" question this episode are: Steven Frye, Dianne Luce, Bill Hardwig, Nell Sullivan, Brian Giemza, Dennis McCarthy, Stac...
2023-06-191h 17Great American NovelDefining Dignity through Service in Ernest J. Gaines' A LESSON BEFORE DYINGSend us a textOnly thirty years old this year, Ernest J. Gaines' A Lesson Before Dying (1993) is a powerful testament to social justice and to the search for individual dignity in an oppressive legal system. Set in the late 1940s in a small Louisiana community, the book tells the story of two men, one a convicted murderer on death's row (Jefferson) and the other his reluctant tutor (Grant) who is asked to teach the doomed man how to face death and injustice with a sense of self-worth. Almost instantly canonized upon publication, A Lesson Before Dying is...
2023-06-031h 06Reading McCarthyEpisode 41: Over the Border Again with the Bros. Elmore: Part 2 on THE CROSSINGEpisode 41 is our second excursion over the border as the Brothers Elmore and I finish our conversation about THE CROSSING. Returning as the guests are twin scholars Jonathan and Rick Elmore. That's right, twins. Jonathan Elmore is Associate Professor of English at Savannah State University and the Managing Editor of Watchung Review.. He is the editor of Fiction and the Sixth Mass Extinction: Narrative in an Era of Loss (Lexington) and co-author of An Introduction to African and Afro-Diasporic Peoples and Influences in British Literature and Culture before the Industrial Revolution (ALG). His scholarship has been published in The Cor...
2023-05-3138 minReading McCarthyEpisode 40: A rough ride into THE CROSSING with Jonathan and Rick Elmore PART IEpisode 40 is a long ride through rough country as we dig into The CROSSING, McCarthy's masterful middle volume in the Border Trilogy. My guests today are twin scholars Jonathan and Rick Elmore. That's right, twins. Jonathan Elmore is Associate Professor of English at Savannah State University and the Managing Editor of Watchung Review.. He is the editor of Fiction and the Sixth Mass Extinction: Narrative in an Era of Loss (Lexington) and co-author of An Introduction to African and Afro-Diasporic Peoples and Influences in British Literature and Culture before the Industrial Revolution (ALG). His scholarship has been published in The...
2023-05-121h 04Reading McCarthyEpisode 39: Riding into the Evening Reddit in the West with Joe ParslowCormac still types his novels on an Olivetti typewriter and your host can't figure out Facebook. So for Episode 39 we bring in some expert help in the form of a lively discussion with Redditor supreme Joe Parslow. He has moderated the Cormac McCarthy subreddit for over a decade and has seen it grow from its first post in April 2012 to its current position as the largest online community devoted to the works of Cormac McCarthy. In March 2023 the membership of the subreddit approached 12,000 members. He is a professional writer and the former Senior Editor of the online literary journal Hol...
2023-04-271h 13Great American NovelEpisode 20: Cracking Through the Scrub with THE YEARLINGSend us a textIn Great American Novel Podcast Episode 20, your fearless (or is it feckless) hosts find themselves in the damp swamps and thick scrublands of north central Florida in the post-Reconstruction era as we struggle to survive with the settlers of the brush country in Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' Pulitzer Prize winning 1938 novel, The Yearling. We discuss how this Maryland native came to work with the editor of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Thomas Wolfe, and how she came to love the Florida brush country she wrote about. As always, these discussions are operating according to t...
2023-04-121h 10Reading McCarthyEpisode 38: Covering the UK Book Beat: George Berridge of the Times Literary Supplement Today's guest is George Berridge. George began academic life as a journalist but like Hank Williams saw the light and also began digging deeply into American Literature. He's now the American Literature editor of the Times Literary Supplement. He lives and works in London. His exceptional review of THE PASSENGER and STELLA MARIS was published in October of last year. He joins me in a nice conversation about the role of the literary critic in modern journalism (with of course a focus on the works of McCarthy). Thanks to Thomas Frye, who composed, performed, and produced the music...
2023-03-241h 11Great American NovelEpisode 19: Riding the Rocket with Thomas Pynchon's GRAVITY'S RAINBOWSend us a textSeason three kicks off with a fiftieth anniversary celebration of Thomas Pynchon's postmodernist whirl-a-gig Gravity's Rainbow. Originally published on February 28, 1973, this encyclopedic inquiry into the systematicity of existence, power, and technology was just this week described by Esquire as "one of the weirdest, richest, most frustrating, inscrutable, brilliant, gorgeous, exhilarating, inexplicable, disgusting, hilarious, remarkable, and goddamn frustrating again novels ever published in America"---a novel so discombobulating, in fact, that the Pulitzer board refused to award it the fiction prize it assuredly deserved for its sheer display of ambition and erudition. Ostensibly about a...
2023-03-031h 03Reading McCarthyEpisode 37: Another Roundup of All the Pretty Horses, with Steven Frye and Stacey PeeblesFrequent guests Steven Frye and Stacey Peebles join me for another roundup of All the Pretty Horses, the National Book Award winning novel which finally forced the literary world to sit up and take notice of McCarthy. We climb on and hold tight for this ride through this incredible novel. Stacey Peebles is Chair of the English program, Director of Film Studies, and the Marlene and David Grissom Professor of Humanities at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. She is the author of Welcome to the Suck: Narrating the American Soldier's Experience in Iraq (Cornell Univ Press, 2011) and Corm...
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Frame RateFrame Rate - Magic Mike's Last DanceRide the Proverbial Pony, its a Valentine's Day special!
This weekend Magic Mike blessed the big screen once again to cap off the stripper saga. Gary butters up his popcorn and gets deep on dance.
Thanks for listening to Frame Rate!
2023-02-1419 minReading McCarthyEpisode 36: McCarthy's Knoxville with Wes MorganLike Cormac McCarthy, Wes Morgan was born in the North—Albany, New York rather than Rhode Island—but came south at the age of 4. Wes grew up in Atlanta and earned BS degrees in Physics and Applied Psychology at Georgia Tech. In 1962 Wes moved to Knoxville and began working on his doctorate in psychology. He went on to work as a staff psychologist at Palo Alto Veterans Administration Hospital in California, where he met Marian, who would become his wife, Wes and his family returned to Knoxville in 1970 to join the faculty in the Department of Psychology at the Univers...
2023-01-1156 min
Daily Sales TipsStories Sell - Will Yarbrough"If you want to be memorable, if you want to stand out from the competition, remember that stories sell." - Will Yarbrough in today's Tip 1424 What's your thought about this? Join the conversation at DailySales.Tips/1424 and learn more about Will! Have feedback? Want to share a sales tip? Call or text the Sales Success Hotline: 512-777-1442 or Email: scott@top1.fm
2023-01-0402 minGreat American NovelEpisode 18: We Want to Fly Away with Chopin's THE AWAKENINGSend us a textIn Great American Novel Podcast Episode 18, our final Season 2 episode, we plunge ourselves into New Orleans of the fin de siècle in Kate Chopin's 1899 novel The Awakening. Edna Pontellier wrestles with a life she never chose, beset by a bore of a husband, a flimsy excuse for a lover, and a patriarchal society which has tried to restrain her choices to almost nothing. One of the great early feminist novels, we discuss its slow but steady climb from obscurity to ubiquity.The Great American Novel podcast is an ongoing discussion a...
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Frame Rate11 lessons I learned in my 2022Welcome back! Again!
This is a very special episode to celebrate the relaunch of Frame Rate on my one-year anniversary of taking a big leap into the unknown.
This is a list of lessons I've taken through that journey this year.
2022-12-2429 minReading McCarthyEpisode 35: Crossing the border on ALL THE PRETTY HORSES with Allen JosephsEpisode 35 takes a first ride across the border with the novel that would elevate McCarthy's profile and career. All the Pretty Horses won McCarthy the National Book Award following its publication in 1992 and was McCarthy's first best-selling novel. Our guest for this episode is Dr. Allen Josephs. A Hemingway scholar as well as a Cormackian, Allen Josephs is a past president of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Society and a past president of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association. He is the author of 15 books, including On Hemingway and Spain: Essays and Reviews 1979 – 2013; White Wall of Spain: The Mysteries of...
2022-12-1959 minGreat American NovelEp 17: Pursuing the Picaro in Saul Bellow's THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCHSend us a textSaul Bellow's 1953 breakthrough novel The Adventures of Augie March is perhaps, of all the great American novels we've discussed, the one whose cultural imprint has faded the most. Even among Bellow fans this freewheeling exploration of American identity tends to take a backseat to subsequent classics such as Herzog (1964) and Humboldt’s Gift (1975). Yet for readers who recognize the Whitmanesque strain within Bellow's insistently intellectual worldview, Augie March offers a garrulous, propulsive portrait of the representative American as a picaro, the rogue hero who lives by his wits. In this epic novel in whi...
2022-12-121h 03Reading McCarthyEpisode 34: Listening in on STELLA MARISSome six weeks or so after the publication of McCarthy's first novel in 16 years, The Passenger, we have its slim companion volume, the little sister, if you will, Stella Maris. In this brief review, I again forego the normal conversation format to offer a quick first-take review of the newest McCarthy novel, one that many presume will be the last book of his published in his lifetime. The novel is composed of the recording of 7 interviews conducted with Alicia Western, genius and sister to The Passenger's Bobby Western, at the Stella Maris psychiatric care facility in 1972. As alw...
2022-12-0826 minReading McCarthyEpisode 33: McCarthy and the Animal Kingdom, with Wallis SanbornThis episode is a thorough discussion of McCarthy's use of the animal kingdom in his works. My guest in this episode is Wallis Sanborn, Chair of the Department of English, Mass Communication, and Drama, and Graduate Program Head of the Master of Arts-Master of Fine Arts in Literature, Creative Writing, and Social Justice Program at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, Texas. Dr. Sanborn is the author of Animals in the Fiction of Cormac McCarthy (2006) and The American Novel of War: A Critical Analysis and Classification System (2012) and the editor of The Klondike Stampede (2017).
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Daily Sales TipsPeople Buy From People - Will Yarbrough"Don't be afraid to say no, because oftentimes that can do you a ton of good in terms of building that relationship and trust with your prospects." - Will Yarbrough in today's Tip 1383 Do you afraid to say no? Join the conversation at DailySales.Tips/1383 and learn more about Will! Have feedback? Want to share a sales tip? Call or text the Sales Success Hotline: 512-777-1442 or Email: scott@top1.fm
2022-11-2202 minGreat American NovelEpisode 16: Classics of American NoirSend us a textThe Great American Novel podcast is an ongoing discussion about the novels we hold up as significant achievements in our American literary culture. Additionally, we sometimes suggest novels who should break into the sometimes problematical canon and at other times we’ll suggest books which can be dropped from such lofty consideration. Your hosts are Kirk Curnutt and Scott Yarbrough, professors with little time and less sense who nonetheless enjoy a good book banter. For this 16th episode we went a different route and discuss a smorgasbord of fine American Noir, novel...
2022-11-021h 20Reading McCarthyEpisode 32: Riding Along with THE PASSENGERAfter a sixteen year wait, we finally have a new novel by Cormac McCarthy grasped in our greedy little podcasting clutches. In this episode of the podcast, we break with form a bit. There's no guest discussion this episode; instead we offer a quick review of THE PASSENGER. Is it completely correct to call it McCarthy's "new novel" since we know he's been working on it since at least the early 90s? Has the wait been worth it? Will this prove a worthy finale to a remarkable career? Do you have to be able to discuss string theory at length...
2022-10-2530 minReading McCarthyEpisode 31: McCarthy and Irish Writers with Richard RussellThis episode delves again into McCarthy's roots as we consider his intersections with Irish literature. The guest in this episode is Tennessean by birth and now fully Texified, Richard R. Russell is Professor of English and director of graduate programs at Baylor University. He earned an M Phil at the University of Glasgow and his MA and PhD from the U of North Carolina. Books include Seamus Heaney: A Critical Introduction, Edinburgh University Press, Seamus Heaney's Regions. University of Notre Dame Press, June 2014. Modernity, Community, and Place in Brian Friel’s Drama. Syracuse University Press, Irish Studies series, 2013. Poetry and Pe...
2022-10-101h 12Great American NovelSearching for the Ghost of Tom Joad in John Steinbeck's THE GRAPES OF WRATHSend us a textJohn's Steinbeck's 1939 tale of an "Oakie" family who crosses Route 66 seeking to escape the Dust Bowl only to discover California isn't the paradise it's been advertised as is one of the most iconic Great American Novels in our literary history. Its impact was profound and immediate: rarely has a novel been so viciously denounced simply for promoting the belief that all Americans deserve to make a living. But the novel has also been celebrated as a testament to democratic protest, inspiring folks songs by Woody Guthrie and Bruce Springsteen that have in turn...
2022-09-011h 21Reading McCarthyEpisode 30: Blood Meridian Round Table Part 2The second part of our wonderful panel discussion of Cormac McCarthy’s masterful and shattering novel Blood Meridian. Our returning guests include: Steve Frye, who is professor and chair of English at California State University, Bakersfield and President of the Cormac McCarthy Society. He is the author of Understanding Cormac McCarthy (Univ. of South Carolina Press) and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Cormac McCarthy, and Cambridge UP’s Cormac McCarthy in Context. He has written numerous journal articles on Cormac McCarthy and other authors of the American Romanticist Tradition. Additionally, he is the author of the recentl...
2022-08-2444 minReading McCarthyEpisode 29: BLOOD MERIDIAN panel, Part IThree returning guests join us for this first part of our interesting and engaging discussion of Cormac McCarthy’s magnum opus Blood Meridian. Steve Frye is professor and chair of English at California State University, Bakersfield and President of the Cormac McCarthy Society. He is the author of Understanding Cormac McCarthy (Univ. of South Carolina Press) and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Cormac McCarthy, and Cambridge UP’s Cormac McCarthy in Context. He has written numerous journal articles on Cormac McCarthy and other authors of the American Romanticist Tradition. Additionally, he is the author of the recently published novel...
2022-08-0954 min
Daily Sales TipsBuyers Don’t Know How To Buy - Will Yarbrough"So remember that buyers don't know how to buy, and the primary piece of value that you bring to the table, as the seller, is helping them do that in a really efficient and intelligent manner." - Will Yarbrough in today's Tip 1267 What's your thought about this? Join the conversation at DailySales.Tips/1267 and connect with Will on LinkedIn! Have feedback? Want to share a sales tip? Call or text the Sales Success Hotline: 512-777-1442 or Email: scott@top1.fm
2022-07-2703 minReading McCarthyEpisode 28: McCarthy's Women Characters with Nell SullivanEpisode 28 brings back previous guest Nell Sullivan to discuss a thorny subject: McCarthy’s women characters, with digressions into the ways the author tiptoes through the landscape of homosocial desire. Nell Sullivan earned a BA in English from Vanderbilt University and earned her PhD in English from Rice University. She is currently Professor of English at University of Houston-Downtown, where she teaches courses in American literature and the literature of the American South. A former editor of the Cormac McCarthy Journal, she has published extensively on gender and class representation in McCarthy’s novels, and has also published essays on Kath...
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Daily Sales TipsBuild Credibility - Will Yarbrough"Build credibility with your customers, and do that through being confident, being trustworthy, and building a herd mentality with your customers so that they know that they're making a good decision." - Will Yarbrough in today's Tip 1259 How do you build credibility? Join the conversation at DailySales.Tips/1259 and learn more about Will! Have feedback? Want to share a sales tip? Call or text the Sales Success Hotline: 512-777-1442 or Email: scott@top1.fm
2022-07-1902 minGreat American NovelEpisode 14: Ride into the sun--Cormac McCarthy's BLOOD MERIDIANSend us a textThe 14th episode is a ride into the evening redness in the west as your hosts consider one of the more notorious books on our short list: Cormac McCarthy’s epic subversive western, BLOOD MERIDIAN, or, The Evening Redness in the West. This 1985 tome of McCarthy’s has engaged constant discussion and speculation due to the high poetry of its language and the stark horror of its violence. Saddle up and touch your heels to your horse to hear our wide-ranging discussion of this novel.The Great American Novel podcast is an ong...
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2022-07-1002 minReading McCarthyEpisode 27: McCarthy and Race with Lydia CooperEpisode 27 of READING MCCARTHY is a thorough consideration of Race in the Works of Cormac McCarthy. The guest for this thoughtful and engaging discussion is Lydia Cooper; Dr. Cooper is a professor of American literature at Creighton University. Her specializations include Native American literature, Western and Southwestern literature, gender studies, and Cormac McCarthy. Her most recent book is Cormac McCarthy: A Complexity Theory of Literature, published by Manchester University Press. Other books includes Masculinities in Literature of the American West; No More Heroes: Narrative Perspective and Morality in the Novels (those novels being the ones by McCarthy); her work on...
2022-06-161h 17Great American NovelHoming in on the Prairie with Willa Cather's My ÁntoniaSend us a textWilla Cather's most famous novel was published only two months before the Armistice ended the bloodshed of the Great War, and in its powerfully imagistic portrait of Midwestern homesteading, it offered readers an emotional connection to the nation's founding myth of pioneer fortitude. Yet My Ántonia wasn't just a story about pilgrims' progress across the prairies: it was a story of immigrants struggling to realize the American Dream that appeared in an era of extreme xenophobia that will feel painfully resonant to contemporary readers. In telling the story of the resilient Ántonia Shimerda an...
2022-06-151h 04Reading McCarthyEpisode 26: Turnabout, or, the Evening Redness in the Face, or Josyph Takes the ReinsEverything is topsy-turvy for this episode as returning guest Peter Josyph seizes control of the station and turns the tables on your regular host Scott Yarbrough, interviewing him. Regular host Scott Yarbrough is the co-author of A Practical Introduction to Literary Study, co-editor with Rick Wallach of the two volume Carrying the Fire casebook collections of essays on The Road, and author of numerous essays on McCarthy, Faulkner, Hemingway, and others. Peter Josyph is an Author, Actor, Artist, Auteur, musician and composer and more Peter Josyph’s books include The Wrong Reader’s Guide to Cormac McCarthy: All the Pretty...
2022-05-261h 25Reading McCarthyEpisode 25: They Rode On: Plumbing the BLOOD MERIDIAN with Stacey PeeblesOur returning guest for READING MCCARTHY is Stacey Peebles. On this 25th episode of the podcast we venture out into the Darkening World to Come and Ride into the Evening Redness in the West. Yes, that’s right—this is our first full-length consideration of McCarthy’s masterpiece, Blood Meridian. Dr. Peebles is Chair of the English program, Director of Film Studies, and the Marlene and David Grissom Professor of Humanities at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. She is the author of Welcome to the Suck: Narrating the American Soldier's Experience in Iraq (2011) and Cormac McCarthy and Perfor...
2022-05-051h 23Great American NovelEpisode 12: Hitting the Road with LOLITASend us a textThe Great American Novel podcast is an ongoing discussion about the novels we hold up as significant achievements in our American literary culture. Additionally, we sometimes suggest novels who should break into the sometimes problematical canon and at other times we’ll suggest books which can be dropped from such lofty consideration. Your hosts are Kirk Curnutt and Scott Yarbrough, professors with little time and less sense who nonetheless enjoy a good book banter. In Episode 12 our intrepid profcasters lay into the most controversial novel of the 20th Century, Vladimir Nabokov’s LOLIT...
2022-04-271h 28Reading McCarthyEpisode 24: Wrangling with Wallach: An Interview with Rick Wallach, critic, scholar, editor and co-founder of the McCarthy SocietyThe guest for Episode 24 of READING MCCARTHY needs no introduction to any member of the Cormac McCarthy Society, visitors to the CormacMccarthy.com forums, or readers of McCarthy Criticism. One of the founders of the Cormac McCarthy society, Rick Wallach survived a degree in theology and years teaching English in Miami, Florida, and is a founding member of the Cormac McCarthy Society. He is senior editor of the Cormac McCarthy Soci ety casebook series, and editor of the two-volume collection of essays Sacred Violence as well as Myth, Legend Dust: Critical Responses to Cormac McCarthy, and co-editor with Lynnea C...
2022-04-031h 14Great American NovelThe Everyday Ecstasy of Marilynne Robinsone's GILEADSend us a textOur eleventh episode explores the most recent novel on our list of celebrated Great American Novels, Marilynne Robinson's 2004 Pulitzer Prize-winning exploration of Christian humanism, GILEAD. Set in a fictional small Iowa town in 1956, this deceptively lowkey narrative about a dying minister, John Ames, and the sudden reappearance of the town's prodigal son, Jack Boughton, raises intriguing questions about the intersection of the soul and society. Robinson is our most prominent representative of literary or philosophical Christianity today; in a marketplace in which the very notion of Christian fiction raises doctrinaire stereotypes of the...
2022-03-141h 24Reading McCarthyEpisode 23: Reading McCarthy with Audiobook Narrator RICHARD POEEpisode 23 of READING MCCARTHY brings us a great discussion with actor and audiobook narrator Richard Poe. Poe is known to McCarthy fans as the audiobook narrator of McCarthy’s masterwork Blood Meridian. Richard Poe has been a professional actor since 1970, when he left the army and was soon drafted into the chorus of William Ball’s production of Oedipus Rex at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. Later that year he was cast as Rosencrantz in a production of Hamlet starring the 73-year-old Dame Judith Anderson, touring all the major theaters in America, including Carnegie Hall. He then played...
2022-03-0446 minReading McCarthyEpisode 22: SUTTREE Round Table Part 2This is the second part of the round table discussion of one of McCarthy’s masterworks, the 1979 novel Suttree. The guests for this wonderful discussion include Dianne Luce, who previously appeared in episodes about The Orchard Keeper and Suttree. Dr. Luce is a founding member and past president of the Cormac McCarthy Society. Together with Edwin Arnold, she has edited two collections of articles on McCarthy, and she is the author of Reading the World: Cormac McCarthy’s Tennessee Period (2009). In the past decade, she has been writing a two-volume study, based on archival research, of McCarthy’s writing l...
2022-02-191h 36Great American NovelEpisode 10: Finding the Lost Generation in Hemingway's THE SUN ALSO RISESSend us a textThe Great American Novel podcast is an ongoing discussion about the novels we hold up as significant achievements in our American literary culture. Additionally, we sometimes suggest novels who should break into the sometimes problematical canon and at other times we’ll suggest books which can be dropped from such lofty consideration. Your hosts are Kirk Curnutt and Scott Yarbrough, professors with little time and less sense who nonetheless enjoy a good book banter. In conversation with writer Gertrude Stein, a Parisian mechanic disparaged the young and dissolute men who’d survived...
2022-01-171h 31Reading McCarthyEpisode 21: Suttree Round Table, Part 1We kick off Season 2 of READING McCARTHY with a very special episode. Instead of having only one guest today, we’ll have three in the first part of a round table discussion of one of McCarthy’s masterworks, SUTTREE. As part of the round table we welcome back our guest Dianne Luce, who previously appeared in episodes about The Orchard Keeper and Suttree. Dr. Luce is a founding member and past president of the Cormac McCarthy Society. Together with Edwin Arnold, she has edited two collections of articles on McCarthy, and she is the author of Reading the World...
2022-01-071h 02Great American NovelEpisode 9: Adventures of Huckleberry FinnSend us a textIn this installment we look at another of the most iconic of GANs, Mark Twain's 1885 "bad boy" novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Written over an eight-year period, what began as a sequel to the mischievous "bad boy" book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) steepened into a caustic interrogation of racism in the United States. Twain's depiction of the relationship between the naive sprite Huck and the runaway slave Jim at once appeals to the American desire for harmonious race relations while probing blindspots in our national notions of equality. Twain employs several motifs a...
2021-12-291h 22Reading McCarthyEpisode 20: McCarthy and Irish Catholicism in the South with Bryan GiemzaEpisode 20 brings back guest Bryan Giemza in a discussion which begins as a consideration of McCarthy and Irish Catholicism in the American South and ends with a quick dip into one of McCarthy’s less revered works, The Counselor. Dr. Bryan Giemza is an Associate Professor of Humanities and Literature in the Honors College at Texas Tech University. In addition to his teaching and research he serves as public scholar for the Sowell Family Collection in Literature, Community and the Natural World. He is author or editor of six academic books on American literary and cultural history, ten book chap...
2021-12-1355 minGreat American NovelEpisode 8: Beloved and Ghosts of the Past, the Present, and Possibly the FutureSend us a textThe Great American Novel podcast is an ongoing discussion about the novels we hold up as significant achievements in our American literary culture. Additionally, we sometimes suggest novels who should break into the sometimes problematical canon and at other times we’ll suggest books which can be dropped from such lofty consideration. Your hosts are Kirk Curnutt and Scott Yarbrough, professors with little time and less sense who nonetheless enjoy a good book banter. Our 8th episode is a consideration of one of the most significant works of Nobel Prize-winning author Toni M...
2021-11-241h 13Reading McCarthyEpisode 19: Meanderings with Peter Josyph, Part 2This episode is Part TWO of my excellent wandering conversation with the energetic and versatile Peter Josyph. Author, Actor, Artist, Auteur, and more, Peter Josyph’s books include The Wrong Reader’s Guide to Cormac McCarthy: All the Pretty Horses; Adventures in Reading Cormac McCarthy; Cormac McCarthy’s House: Reading McCarthy Without Walls; Liberty Street: Encounters at Ground Zero; The Way of the Trumpet; What One Man Said to Another: Talks With Richard Selzer; and The Wounded River, which was a New York Times Notable Book of 1993. His films include the award-winning Liberty Street...
2021-11-1247 minReading McCarthyEpisode 18: Peter Josyph, Man of Many Talents and McCarthy Aficionado, Part 1The guest for Episode 18 is so interesting and diverse that he has sprawled into two episodes! Author, Actor, Artist, Auteur, and more, Peter Josyph’s books include The Wrong Reader’s Guide to Cormac McCarthy: All the Pretty Horses; Adventures in Reading Cormac McCarthy; Cormac McCarthy’s House: Reading McCarthy Without Walls; Liberty Street: Encounters at Ground Zero; The Way of the Trumpet; What One Man Said to Another: Talks With Richard Selzer; and The Wounded River, which was a New York Times Notable Book of 1993. His films include the award-winning Liberty Street: Alive a...
2021-10-221h 06Great American NovelEpisode 7–All that Jazz: F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great GatsbySend us a textIn our seventh episode we explore a Great American Novel that's so ubiquitous it's almost hard to believe there was a time when the media wasn't full of contrast, random references to The Great Gatsby. The story of a mysterious millionaire who turns up on Long Island, throwing lavish parties and spinning fables as transparently invented as they are enthralling, captures something essential about the promise of America. We explore why the term used for that something---the American dream---falls flat in this day and age, and what exactly we can still learn about...
2021-10-141h 35Reading McCarthyEpisode 17: Searching for SUTTREE with Dianne LuceEpisode 17 is an epic consideration of McCarthy’s first great epic novel, Suttree. Our returning guest is Dr. Dianne Luce. Dianne Luce is a founding member and past president of the Cormac McCarthy Society. She has co-edited two collections of articles on McCarthy, and she is the author of Reading the World: Cormac McCarthy’s Tennessee Period (2009). Recently she has been writing a two-volume study of McCarthy’s writing life at Random House through examination of archival research. She holds faculty emeritus status from Midlands Tech in Columbia, SC.The title of this episode, by the way, comes from...
2021-09-171h 29Reading McCarthyEpisode 16: Michael Crews and McCarthy's Literary InfluencesOur guest for Episode 16 is Michael Crews, author of Books are Made out of Books: A guide to Cormac McCarthy’s Literary Influences, published by the University of Texas Press in 2017. Dr. Crews is an Associate Professor of English and chair of English and Communication Studies at Regents University. He explains his work delving into the McCarthy archives of the Wittliff Collection in his quest for the writers and texts who have influenced the works of Cormac McCarthy. Thanks to Thomas Frye, who composed, performed, and produced the music for READING MCCARTHY. Included are (a...
2021-08-2738 minGreat American NovelEpisode 6: Watching the Horizon in THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GODSend us a textThe Great American Novel podcast is an ongoing discussion about the novels we hold up as significant achievements in our American literary culture. Additionally, we sometimes suggest novels who should break into the sometimes problematical canon and at other times we’ll suggest books which can be dropped from such lofty consideration. Your hosts are Kirk Curnutt and Scott Yarbrough, professors with little time and less sense who nonetheless enjoy a good book banter. This episode focuses on Zora Neale Hurston’s classic, revered novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. We discuss t...
2021-08-201h 08Reading McCarthyEpisode 15: The Gardener's Son with Stacey PeeblesEpisode 15 is a dive into McCarthy’s first produced and published screenplay, The Gardener’s Son. The guest on this episode is Dr. Stacey Peebles, Chair of the English program, Director of Film Studies, and the Marlene and David Grissom Professor of Humanities at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. She is the author of Welcome to the Suck: Narrating the American Soldier's Experience in Iraq (2011) and Cormac McCarthy and Performance: Page, Stage, Screen (2017). She is editor of the collection Violence in Literature and, with Ben West, is co-editor of the volume Approaches to Tea...
2021-08-061h 09Reading McCarthyEpisode 14: McCarthy and Faith with Bryan VescioEpisode 14 is a consideration of McCarthy and faith. Today’s guest Dr. Bryan Vescio is Professor and Chair of English at High Point University in North Carolina. He has previously taught at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Missouri Southern State University, and DePaul University. He is the author of the 2014 book Reconstruction in Literary Studies: An Informalist Approach, as well as numerous articles on American authors including Mark Twain, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, and Nathanael West. He has published articles on works by McCarthy including Suttree, Blood Meridian, and The Road. Thanks to Thomas Frye, who composed, perfor...
2021-07-2347 minGreat American NovelEpisode 5: Blending Black and White in ABSALOM, ABSALOM!Send us a textWilliam Faulkner's dizzyingly complex, Lost Cause-dismantling 1936 novel about the rise and fall of a Southern plantation owner who "outraged the land" amid the Civil War is perhaps the most formidable Great American Novel one can tackle: it has the distinction of making Moby-Dick look accessible! But Absalom, Absalom! is not only a tour-de-force of modernist experimentation with its long, incantatory sentences and seemingly endless convolutions; it's also an inquiry into the nature of knowledge, historical "facts," and storytelling. As speculation mounts about the motives driving Thomas Sutpen's all-consuming "design" to create a lineage...
2021-07-231h 22Reading McCarthyEpisode 13: A Look Behind the Curtains with Marty PriolaEpisode 13 of READING MCCARTHY is a look behind the curtains of the Cormac McCarthy Society’s webpage with webmaster, writers, critic, book collector, and aficionado Marty Priola. Mary Priola holds a bachelor’s degree from Christian Brothers University and a JD from the University of Memphis. He has written two entries on McCarthy for the DICTIONARY OF LITERARY BIOGRAPHY. His writing is also featured in exchanges with Peter Josyph in CORMAC MCCARTHY’S HOUSE: READING MCCARTHY WITHOUT WALLS and THE WRONG READER’S GUIDE TO CORMAC MCCARTHY: ALL THE PRETTY HORSES, which he edited and published in its first...
2021-07-0956 minReading McCarthyEpisode 12: Faulkner and McCarthy, with Jay WatsonEpisode 12 of READING MCCARTHY is a thorough rumination of the influences of Nobel Prize winner William Faulkner on the works and style of Cormac McCarthy. Our guest today is Faulkner scholar and critic Dr. Jay Watson. Jay Watson is Distinguished Professor of English and Howry Professor of Faulkner Studies at the University of Mississippi, where he also directs the annual Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha conference. He is author or editor of thirteen books, most recently a monograph, WILLIAM FAULKNER AND THE FACES OF MODERNITY, and a coedited collection, FAULKNER AND SLAVERY. The music for READING MCCARTHY is com...
2021-06-181h 00Great American NovelEpisode 4: Returning to THE AGE OF INNOCENCESend us a textThe Great American Novel podcast is an ongoing discussion about the novels we hold up as significant achievements in our American literary culture. Additionally, we sometimes suggest novels who should break into the sometimes problematical canon and at other times we’ll suggest books which can be dropped from such lofty consideration. Your hosts are Kirk Curnutt and Scott Yarbrough, professors with little time and less sense who nonetheless enjoy a good book banter. This episode focuses on Edith Wharton’s Pulitzer Prize winning 1920 novel The Age of Innocence. We consider this clas...
2021-06-151h 07Reading McCarthyEpisode 11: Checking out CHILD OF GOD with Bill HardwigEpisode 11 of READING MCCARTHY is a deep consideration of perhaps McCarthy’s most troubling novel, CHILD OF GOD. Our guest today is Dr. Bill Hardwig, who was with us before for a discussion of the southern gothic. Bill Hardwig is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Tennessee. His book Upon Provincialism: Southern Literature and National Periodical Culture, 1870-1900 was published by the University of Virginia Press in 2013. He has edited critical editions of In the Tennessee Mountains by Mary Murfree and a forthcoming edition of Evelyn Scott’s Background in Tennessee and is co-editor with Susa...
2021-06-0456 minReading McCarthyEpisode 10: McCarthy Translator Paulo FariaEpisode 10 of Reading McCarthy welcomes as a guest McCarthy’s translator into Portuguese, Paulo Faria. Paulo Faria was born in 1967, in Lisbon, Portugal. He graduated in Biology and teaches science, but he always had a passion for literature. He became a literary translator as a young man. In 2016 he published his first novel, «Strange war of common use», and his third novel has just been published in Portugal. He has translated each of McCarthy’s novels into Portuguese. This wide-ranging conversation touches upon the difficulties of translating complex authors, Paulo’s experience in meeting McCarthy, a consideration of Don Delillo, a...
2021-05-2144 minGreat American NovelEpisode 3: Seeing Ralph Ellison's INVISIBLE MAN ClearlySend us a textOn the eve of its seventieth birthday, Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (1952) occupies a unique place in the American canon. On the one hand, it was instantly heralded as a Great American Novel---indeed, as Lawrence Buell notes in his study of GANs, it was the first novel by an African American to be universally admitted to the pantheon of important national fiction. At the same time, the book's subsequent reputation has ridden a rollercoaster of praise and complaint suggesting our uncertainty about what degree an epic novel about race relations should emphasize the political...
2021-05-141h 24Reading McCarthyEpisode 9: Melville and McCarthy with Steven FryeREADING MCCARTHY is a podcast devoted to the consideration and discussion of the works of one of our greatest American writers, Cormac McCarthy. Each episode calls upon different well-known Cormackian readers and scholars to help us explore different works and various essential aspects of McCarthy’s writing. Scott Yarbrough is your host in these deep dives into the world of McCarthy. Episode 9 of Reading McCarthy welcomes back Dr. Steven Frye in a consideration of the influence of American author Herman Melville on Cormac McCarthy. Steven Frye is professor and chair of English at California State University, Bakersfield and Pr...
2021-05-0855 minReading McCarthyEpisode 8: The Cormac McCarthy Journal with Stacey PeeblesREADING MCCARTHY is a podcast devoted to the consideration and discussion of the works of one of our greatest American writers, Cormac McCarthy. Stacey Peebles joins the podcast for this episode. Dr. Peebles is Chair of the English program, Director of Film Studies, and the Marlene and David Grissom Professor of Humanities at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. She is the author of Welcome to the Suck: Narrating the American Soldier's Experience in Iraq (published in 2011) and Cormac McCarthy and Performance: Page, Stage, Screen (published 2017). She is editor of the collection Violence in Literature a...
2021-04-2337 minGreat American NovelEpisode 2: Diving with MOBY DICKSend us a textThe Great American Novel podcast is an ongoing discussion about the novels we hold up as significant achievements in our American literary culture. Additionally, we sometimes suggest novels who should break into the sometimes problematical canon and at other times we’ll suggest books which can be dropped from such lofty consideration. Your hosts are Kirk Curnutt and Scott Yarbrough, professors with little time and less sense who nonetheless enjoy a good book banter. This episode focuses on the novel branded more than any other as the Great American Epic Novel: Herman...
2021-04-231h 19Reading McCarthyEpisode 7: Dennis McCarthy, Author of The Gospel According to Billy the Kid and brother to CormacREADING MCCARTHY is a podcast devoted to the consideration and discussion of the works of one of our greatest American writers, Cormac McCarthy. Each episode calls upon different well-known Cormackian readers and scholars (and occasional other folks of interest) to help us explore different works and various essential aspects of McCarthy’s writing. Scott Yarbrough is your host in these deep dives into the world of McCarthy. The guest for this episode is a different member of the McCarthy gang, Dennis. Dennis McCarthy is the author of the novel The Gospel According to Billy the Kid, published this pa...
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Great American NovelDefinitions and Debates: What Exactly is a GAN?Send us a textEver since J. W. DeForest popularized the phrase "Great American Novel" in 1868 commentators have debated the limits of all three of its components. Does "great" necessarily mean a big "doorstop" book or is concision a worthy goal? Whose version America are we talking? And why the novel not a poem, play, or short story? In our inaugural episode we preview the challenges of defining a GAN and explore why so many writers have felt compelled to parody the concept as much as pursue it. Feel free to send us your thoughts on the p...
2021-03-3143 minReading McCarthyEpisode 6: McCarthy and Southern Literature with Bryan GiemzaREADING MCCARTHY is a podcast devoted to the consideration and discussion of the works of one of our greatest American writers, Cormac McCarthy. Each episode calls upon different well-known Cormackian readers and scholars to help us explore different works and various essential aspects of McCarthy’s writing. Scott Yarbrough is your host in these deep dives into the world of McCarthy. This episode is a consideration of McCarthy in the context of Southern Literature. Today’s guest is Bryan Giemza, who holds a Ph.D. and J.D. and is an Associate Professor of Humanities and Literature in the H...
2021-03-2652 minReading McCarthyEpisode 5: Reading Outer Dark with Nell SullivanREADING MCCARTHY is a podcast devoted to the consideration and discussion of the works of one of our greatest American writers, Cormac McCarthy. Each episode calls upon different well-known Cormackian readers and scholars to help us explore different works and various essential aspects of McCarthy’s writing. Scott Yarbrough is your host in these deep dives into the world of McCarthy. This episode is a consideration of McCarthy’s second novel, Outer Dark. Our guest is Nell Sullivan. Dr. Sullivan grew up in Kentucky and earned a BA in English from Vanderbilt University and earned her PhD in Englis...
2021-03-1241 minReading McCarthyEpisode 4: Southern Gothic and the Grotesque in McCarthy, with Bill HardwigREADING MCCARTHY is a podcast devoted to the consideration and discussion of the works of one of our greatest American writers, Cormac McCarthy. Each episode calls upon different well-known Cormackian readers and scholars to help us explore different works and various essential aspects of McCarthy’s writing. Scott Yarbrough is your host in these deep dives into the world of McCarthy. This episode considers the Southern Gothic and the Grotesque as it relates to the work of Cormac McCarthy. Our guest is Bill Hardwig, Associate Professor of English at the University of Tennessee. His book Upon Provincialism: Southe...
2021-02-2636 minReading McCarthyEpisode 3: Reading The Orchard Keeper, with Dianne LuceREADING MCCARTHY is a podcast devoted to the consideration and discussion of the works of one of our greatest American writers, Cormac McCarthy. Each episode calls upon different well-known Cormackian readers and scholars to help us explore different works and various essential aspects of McCarthy’s writing. Scott Yarbrough is your host in these deep dives into the world of McCarthy. Episode 3 is a thorough consideration of McCarthy’s first novel, The Orchard Keeper. Our guest from Episode 2, Dianne Luce, returns to help guide us through the book. Dianne Luce is a founding member and past president of the Co...
2021-02-1245 minReading McCarthyEpisode 2: Approaching The Orchard KeeperREADING MCCARTHY is a podcast devoted to the consideration and discussion of the works of one of our greatest American writers, Cormac McCarthy. Each episode calls upon different well-known Cormackian readers and scholars to help us explore different works and various essential aspects of McCarthy’s writing. Scott Yarbrough is your host in these deep dives into the world of McCarthy. This second episode is in preparation of delving into McCarthy’s first novel, The Orchard Keeper. The guest this week to prepare us for our journey back to 1930s Tennessee is Dianne Luce. A founding member and past p...
2021-01-2927 minReading McCarthyReading McCarthy Episode 1READING MCCARTHY is a podcast devoted to the consideration and discussion of the works of one of our greatest American writers, Cormac McCarthy. Each episode calls upon different well-known Cormackian readers and scholars to help us explore different works and various essential aspects of McCarthy’s writing. Scott Yarbrough is your host in these deep dives into the world of McCarthy. The guest this episode is Steve Frye. Steve Frye is professor and chair of English at California State University, Bakersfield, and is the President of the Cormac McCarthy Society. He is the author of Understanding Cormac McCarthy...
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