Foggy as a Dickens novel here this morning and I'm declaring today the official beginning of the holiday baking season. Luckily, I've also just joined a gym again--so maybe I can salvage my waistline during the excesses of the season. I'm a big Cormac McCarthy fan but he's rarely interviewed. So I was happy to learn that he's in The Wall Street Journal. Here's the opening in the article:
"Novelist Cormac McCarthy shuns interviews, but he relishes conversation. Last week, the author sat down on the leafy patio of the Menger Hotel, built about 20 years after the siege of the Alamo, the remains of which are next door.
The afternoon conversation, which also included film director John Hillcoat of "The Road," went on 'til dark, then moved to a nearby restaurant for dinner. Dressed in crisp jeans and dimpled brown cowboy boots, Mr. McCarthy began the meal with a Bombay Gibson, up.
The 76-year-old author first broke through with his 1985 novel "Blood Meridian," a tale of American mercenaries hunting Indians in the Mexican borderland. Commercial success came later with 1992's "All the Pretty Horses," a National Book Award winner and the first installment of a Border Trilogy. Critics delved into his detailed vision of the West, his painterly descriptions of violence, and his muscular prose stripped of most punctuation."
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