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Further Out Into McCarthy’s Darkness (In Response to Ms Odradek)

Ms Odradek was kind enough to reply to my last post on Cormac McCarthy’s drive towards the dark by linking to her mini-review of “Outer Dark”. Read her review here.  This response is somewhat of an exploration that her review implicated in me. If Cormac McCarthy is writing tragedy for the purpose of catharsis, then […]

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Dear Clark Christopher,

December 27, 2010 Your name is a story, and you will grow up in the telling of this story.  Over meals, in our going out and our coming in, even in your lying down, you will hear this story.  Your mother and I are eager to see your own story be told; each action and […]

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