The Lives They Lived: Wyatt Mason Writes about Cormac McCarthy for the New York Times Magazine

Wyatt Mason, writer in residence at Bard College and contributing writer for the New York Times magazine, writes about Cormac McCarthy’s tough-guy persona in a series looking back at some of the artists, innovators, and thinkers who died in 2023. “In a profile in the New York Times magazine of the era [of All the Pretty Horses],” Mason writes, “McCarthy talks about venomous snakes and grizzly bears, as though he had briefly descended from horseback before riding off into the evening redness. But as with most great writers, the essential truth was plainer: He was a nerd for the art.” 

Post Date: 01-08-2024