Some personal favorite internet links having to do with McCarthy:
NEW! "Cormac McCarthy on the Santa Fe Institute’s Brainy Halls" by Nick Romeo, Newsweek (The Daily Beast), February 12, 2012
The Phoenix: Literary/Arts Magazine at the University of Tennessee
1959 Fall Issue, which contains "Wake For Susan" by C. J. McCarthy, Jr.
1960 Spring Issue, which contains "A Drowning Incident" by C. J. McCarthy
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The Cormac McCarthy Society, the official website:
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Cormac McCarthy: A Bibliography, compiled by Dianne C. Luce - the definitive bibliographical resource
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The Cormac McCarthy Journal, "an online, peer-reviewed journal focusing on the works and influence of Cormac McCarthy"
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The Witliff Collections: Cormac McCarthy Papers in the Albert B. Alkek Library at Texas State University at San Marcos, with links to information on other collections in the university's possession (in conjunction with the university's Southwestern Writers Collection): the Woolmer Collection of Cormac McCarthy; the John Sepich Papers; the Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy Collection; McCarthy's Drafts of two screenplays; and the Dale L. Walker Collection of Cormac McCarthy-related materials.
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Website of the 2007 Cormac McCarthy "The Road Home" Conference at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, which contains videos and transcripts of the presentations
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C-SPAN's video of Southwest Texas State University's 1999 presentation by William H. Goetzmann, editor of Samuel Chamberlain's My Confession: Recollections of A Rogue, regarded as a source of Blood Meridian
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In the Wake of the Sun: Navigating the Southern Works of Cormac McCarthy by Christopher J. Walsh - digital book (pdf) downloadable for free* from the Newfound Press of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville (*"for non-commercial and educational uses, such as research, teaching and private study" - read complete statements on copyright page of book and on website for legal and ethical use) (paper-and-ink edition available for purchase through same website)
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Yale University Open Course: ENGL 291 - The American Novel Since 1945 - with Professor Amy Hungerford, from Spring 2008; videos, audios, and transcripts of the two 50-minute lectures on Blood Meridian:
Lecture 17 - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
Lecture 18 - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian (cont.)
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Website of John Sepich, noted early expert on Blood Meridian; website contains concordances to McCarthy's novels, plus other resources and writings on McCarthy's works
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Searching For Suttree, website of Wesley Morgan, Jr., longtime Knoxvillian and authority on Knoxville history and lore
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Appalachian Heritage Winter 2011 Issue - Feature Author: Cormac McCarthy - some features available online: essays by George Brosi and Jack Neely and several photographs by Peter Josyph and Wes Morgan
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Metro Pulse - Knoxville online magazine, which often publishes stories about Knoxville history and lore and about McCarthy in particular, many written by columnist Jack Neely (noted columns: "Secret History" by Neely and "Ask Doc Knox" by Dr. Z. Heraclitus Knox)
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"'He Felt At Home Here'" by Mike Gibson, Metro Pulse, March 1, 2001
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"Cormac McCarthy Crosses the Great Divide" by Don Williams, 2004, New Millennium Writings, Issue 14, 2004-2005, p. 194
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"Blood and time: Cormac McCarthy and the twilight of the West" by Roger D. Hodge, Harper's Magazine, February 2006, pp.65-72
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Video: Oprah Winfrey interviews Cormac McCarthy on her show Oprah, June 5, 2007
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On the occasion of the ASU Origins Project Science and Culture Festival, sponsored by Arizona State University at Tempe, a panel discussion on the connection between science and art, with Cormac McCarthy among the panelists, recorded April 8, 2011 as part of NPR's "Science Friday" program: NPR audio broadcast and transcript; alternate source: NPR's "Science Friday" program notes with audio broadcast (mp3); a group photo
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"A conversation between author Cormac McCarthy and the Coen Brothers, about the new movie No Country for Old Men", Time, October 18, 2007
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"Cormac McCarthy's Apocalypse" by David Kushner, Rolling Stone, December 27, 2007, as reproduced in website of David Kushner (follow the links, or click here to go directly - "Cormac McCarthy's Apocalypse" by David Kushner)
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"Hollywood's Favorite Cowboy" by John Jurgensen, The Wall Street Journal, November 20, 2009 - article plus interview with McCarthy and John Hillcoat, director of The Road movie
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"The Road: John Hillcoat's diary", The Telegraph, January 4, 2010 - journal kept by director Hillcoat during production of The Road movie
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Online edition of Knoxille News Sentinel, which often publishes articles about McCarthy
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Appalachian English, website of Michael S. Montgomery, who co-wrote with Joseph S. Hall the Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English
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"The Wampus Cat - A Tennessee Spooky Story", retold by S. E. Schlosser, author of "The Spooky Series" of books (with illustrations by Paul G. Hoffman) on American regional lore, including Spooky South: Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Other Local Lore, from which this adaptation has a longer version in "Chapter 16. The Wampus Cat - Knoxville, Tennessee"; webpage is part of Schlosser's American Folklore website, "created as part of a graduate study at Rutgers the State University of New Jersey in October 1997", which contains a large collection of "retellings of folktales, myths, legends, fairy tales, superstitions, weatherlore, and ghost stories from all over the Americas." Great fun!
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Online edition of The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture, cosponsored by the University of Tennessee Press and the Tennessee Historical Society
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The Handbook of Texas Online, sponsored by the Texas State Historical Association
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Fort Griffin and the Prairie-Plains Frontier, a websection of Texas Beyond History, "a public education service of the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin, and in partnership with the Department of Anthropology at Texas State University and 15 other organizations"
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Website of Fort Griffin State Historic Site, property of the Texas Historical Commission
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American Heritage Magazine, good general American history journal
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Smithsonian Magazine, good general interest journal
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Deadwood Magazine, a now-defunct magazine, but which contains accessible archived old articles, not related to McCarthy per se, but the articles are well written, with a diverse range of subjects from interesting perpectives, and the stories conjure up the Old West
