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Yes, There Are Still New Things to Learn About Cormac McCarthy
Digital subscribers can listen to this article. Subscribe today for unlimited access to Texas Monthly. Already a subscriber? Log in. In the summer of 1998, after my first year of a doctoral program in U.S. history, one of my classmates circulated a breathless email to the rest of our cohort, pressing us to read Cormac McCarthy’s Cities of the Plain, which had appeared that May. While I was charmed by my pal’s enthusiasm, I was also a little perplexed. I wondered who in graduate school had time to read novels, and even if they did, why spend time on McCarthy? In a quieter moment, I’d worked my way through the first two volumes of his Border Trilogy—All the Pretty Horses (1992) and The Crossing (1994)—and thought them…The post Yes, There Are Still New Things to Learn About Cormac McCarthy appeared first on Texas Monthly.