Books Are Made Out of Books: A Guide to Cormac McCarthy's Literary Influences
Cormac McCarthy told an interviewer for the New York Times Magazine that “books are made out of books,” but he has been famously unwilling to discuss how his own writing draws on the works of other wr…
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The American short story master Flannery O'Connor's haunting first novel of faith, false prophets, and redemptive wisdom.
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