🚀 I would love to help you understand McCarthy’s novels better in my Cormac McCarthy course & book club. On my Substack, you can access the Blood Meridian For Writers Course and McCarthy’s unreleased interview. Click here to join: writeconscious.substack.com 📖Explore over 200 of McCarthy’s favorite books in my free guide to his favorite books Access here: writeconscious.ck.page/e20249... 👕Want to REP some McCarthy streetwear? Go here! writeconscious.com 📚Want to WRITE better? Join my free writing school: www.skool.com/writeconscious 📕My Best Books of All-Time List: writeconscious.ck.page/355619... 🔥Want to READ my wife’s fire poetry? Go here: marigoldeclipse.substack.com 🤔My Favorite Cormac McCarthy Novel: amzn.to/3TVdzCQ Insta: instagram.com/writeconscious
In a world of Jordan Petersons, Andrew Tates, social media influencers, and dumbed down academia, we needed McCarthy more than ever to show us what it means to live a good life in the face of modernity. I keep dreaming of a day I could meet him and he could show me the way, but in the end he gave us his books and those are enough. Thank you McCarthy for all that you’ve given us.
100% - What those guys preach is basic shit that is meant to put you down an ideological funnel. Reading McCarthy projects no ideology and only promotes growth the more you get into him.
@remnantrider Naw, I've read both of Jordan's books, watched all his free courses, and heard a bunch of his other content. He has pulled away from the core of his work and became 100% entrenched in the political culture war. Which is fine, but his strengths are as a Jungian analyst and a therapist. Right after his fame he got hooked on Benzo's and has never been the same and puts out no new content in his area of expertise (other than random moments in podcasts if he actually has a psychologist on.) Now he is interviewing Netanyahu, focusing almost exclusively on the Bible, and working with the Daily Wire. Which are everything that is wrong with the right. It's all just the same malignant conservative thought rewrapped for the modern polarization algorithm. I am not a leftist either. The direction Jordan and friends are taking is a repeat of the same cycle we've been through for thousands of years between the left and right. Cormac's work has much more to offer than Jordans. Mostly because Jordan's message is now entrenched with the political. As a Jungian, Jordan's work on psychology/Jung isn't even in the top 500 (if not 1000 or more.) As a lover of personal development Jordan's work isn't in the top 10,000 lol. So, what we get with Jordan's work is a former psychologist who is very intelligent engaging with the insanity of leftist culture. But, in the long run that does nothing but suck people into red herring time wasters. If you read into Jung and Peterson's influences than of course they have more to offer than Cormac. But, Cormac's focus on building a relationship with nature, his focus on science, and messaging about human nature gives way more bang because there is no idealogical funnel you have to subscribe to. If everyone went and connected to nature the world would have dramatic shift larger than every conservative voice combined. If everyone studied science deeply religion and other major artifices would be wiped out or revamped. Thus changing the world. If people contemplated our violent history they'd be more willing to make changes in their attitudes about war/violence.
That happened today?!? Holy crap, I just discovered Cormac McCarthy about a month and a half ago, and I’m 53. I’ve made my way through most of his books since then, but only able to do so on audio because I drive a truck and if I’m not driving, I’m sleeping.
@@WriteConscious I was surprised that he’s resonated so much with me. My other favorite writers are William Gibson and Orson Scott Card so he’s a ride off into a completely new territory for me.
That's an amazing fact that he didn't make any money until All The Pretty Horses. I mean can you imagine creating something like Sutree or Blood Meridian and not having success? I didn't know that. A great man and a great tribute to him. Keep making your videos man.
Great eulogy, dude. He was and continues to be the singular most influential writer on my life. So sad to see him go, but I'm inspired by his life and the way he lived by his own truth and the miracle of presence.
@@WriteConscious Well, ironically I do actually have a book I'm just about ready to put out there. This may be a sign; I'm the one to take up the mantle! 😎
Edit 2: I think this was your best video yet. Such a fitting tribute. Thank you for your work, having the balls to speak the truth, and sharing your honest thoughts. I’m going down to the park now to watch the hawks🥲 “Men like him are few and far between” that’s the damn truth. The number and variety of places he called home is an inspiration to how I want to live my life. I hope to continue to cultivate a wide experience of life in a similar manner. I find immersing oneself in a new physical & cultural landscape deepens my respect for nature and empathy for mankind. Edit: “bob dylan?!!? Are you ducking kidding me?!” That gave a laugh on this sad day.
Loved this video and commentary. Im a 33 year old artist also in the societal hamster wheel. Recently dove into Cormac after years of lurking. Awesome channel and I look forward to learning as im reading his works. (The Road, NCFOM, ATPH i have read and adore.)
Excellent and heartfelt tribute to a giant. Thank you! I’ve just subscribed to your channel and look forward to your other videos. Among many other trenchant observations in this video, two stand out to me (in light of having just finished a re-reading of Blood Meridian, currently reading The Passenger, and of course, ruminations on his passing): 1) your statement on not ever wanting to was time again on the bullshit mind-numbing drivel that’s shoveled out to us. A simple but pretty damn profound song (in hindsight) from my youth is in my head now, “Ain’t Wasting Time No More” by the Allman Brothers. 2) a fascinating comment on the upcoming Oppenheimer movie. Yeah, obviously it’s not out yet, but from all early indications? Well, I can’t wait, and I agree that this would be a film that would definitely have had Cormac MacCarthy in the theater to watch, had he lived. To close this rambling mess even more messily, I wanted to mention another genius in a whole ‘nother realm who has fairly recently passed on , Norm MacDonald. Although I’ve plowed right into The Passenger after re-reading Blood Meridian, I did take a few days on UA-cam to rewatch and relisten to some of Norm’s great standup material, as well as clips from SNL Weekend Update and his Norm MacDonald Live show (a true anarchic, freaking hilarious gem). I highly recommend interspersing reading Cormac MacCarthy with watching/listening to the comedy of Norm.
Very sad news. I live near Maryville TN where Cormac lived for quite awhile. Our county library has a rock mosaic that Cormac and a friend built in the Seventies. I will leave some flowers there tomorrow. The home you mentioned is in nearby Friendsville TN. Cormac used bricks from James Agee's childhood home when he read it was being demolished in Knoxville.
Discovering Cormac McCarthy was a turning point in my life as well. Truly the last of his kind. Where can you find Autumn Magic to read online? Also the Crossing is underrated in my opinion. Moved me the most out of the McCarthy books I’ve read.
I couldn't tell you. I will return to this comment when I find it in one of my videos. I had it sent to me from a scholar and deleted the email but its in some video I made lol.
Every time depression troubles me The Road gives me hope, gives me appetite for life. Makes me appreciate a can of pears. Flashlight, candle, food, shoes.
The world lost a master, and it is worse off for it. Whatever the answer, I hope he had those age old questions answered at long last at the end. Rest in Peace, Cormac McCarthy. There are no words capable of capturing what I feel right now.
I had a love / hate relationship with McCarthy because I found it so hard to read any other author for a long long time. He didn't just fill a gap in my appetite for literature, he hammered a big wooden wedge in there and nobody else could fit. I hope he never underestimated the difference he made in this world. He was a true master of the written word.
Just got notice of the obit in the Times. Came right to your site. Thank you, Ian, for all of your work and enthusiasm bringing ideas about this mans work to us. At least he saw The Passenger and Stella Maris get introduced to the world. Yes, im glad I have read beyond the blockbusters into the Orchard Keeper, Outer Dark, and Suttree.
Thanks Barbara for everything you do! I am happy he saw he last books released, and has set his son up with a great life and artistic opportunities with the Blood Meridian movie.
Thanks so much for this fitting tribute. I want to encourage you to “keep holding the fire”. You are significant. Light and truth are departing from this world and younger people like yourself are rare. May the Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you always in your writing and living endeavours. All the best.
His writing had a way of drawing you in and never letting you go. Words can't really describe the emotions his tales brought forward in a person. In my opinion he was the last of the giants. What now?
We have to start promoting reading or focus on writing to help bring back the giants. Things move in cycles, and it seems like our job now is to prepare the way for a group that will come when we are older
Very sad to hear this. One of my friends from my writing group checked in on me when the news broke. Have you made a video on McCarthy’s literary influences?
I deleted my comment cause it felt snooty in the wake of McCarthy's death, but since you asked, Catcher in the Rye was the first book I really related to. It's similar to the sorrows of young writher by Goethe, an angsty young man in a world overrun by phony appearances who's intelligent enough to see through them yet too manic to help himself. This is a tragic figure for the modern age. Holden's isolation and fear of growing up I still relate to now that I'm older but thanks to Catcher in the Rye's simple yet burning prose, I learned that writing is the proper outlet for such feelings. That's how it changed my life.
Damn, this hurts. There are so few good modern writers that I, like you, do not read the tripe that makes its way into bookstores. I really only read classics and a few modern classics. McCarthy is one of those people that contributed something REALLY excellent---something that 99.99% of modern writers can only dream of and will never achieve. I actually get angry when I read a modern novel because I'm like, THIS SUCKS. How do those ppl get their books published anyway? We are all moving through time and I'm just beyond grateful that I have lived in the time of Mr. McCarthy.💔 EDIT: This video is your magnum opus. Absolutely brilliant.
Beautifully said Nikki. I am so grateful that I can tell my kids I was at the bookstore waiting for them to open the doors for "The Passenger" release! Also, I agree about modern works. They aren't aspiring to write like the greats. I understand that it takes decades to get great, but there is zero potential in a lot of it.
This is a very late comment, but I would just like to add that McCarthy is one of the few authors who actually expanded my world view. A truly great writer, unafraid of challenges and exploring the darkest corners of the human experience. There is much to admire about the man as well as his art.
A genius Americas greatest writers of the late 20th century and our current century .He truly is amazing writer who was invested in the aesthetic of life and the philosophical quest all writers must ponder. He will be missed dearly
Thank you to Cormac McCarthy for everything he brought into this world. He changed me as a person and as long as I live he will be one of my inspirations in life. May he rest in peace.
That was an awesome eulogy (and you are awesome for sharing with us your wealth of knowledge about Cormac Mcarthy) therefore it is only fitting that I should learn of his death from you. Now I'm going to go sit outside and begin to reread Suttree and allow my soul to mourn.
Cara isso me pegou com as calças areadas, eu terminei todos os belos cavalos a menos de 2 meses e amei e estou lendo meridiano de sangue e é uma experiência incrível. E saber que Cormac McCartney morreu e uma dor sem descrição e uma grande perda para a literatura mundial. Descanse em paz Cormac McCartney vai fazer falta.
@@WriteConscious quero ler a trilogia da fronteira, A Estrada e os seus ultimos dois romances, O PASSAGEIRO e STELLA MARIS E esperar que saía os outros livros do Cormac no Brasil
@@WriteConscious true. I just watched that last interview with him where he discussed Oppenheimer. I too wondered if would have seen that, and if he had finished the Blood Meridian script.
@@WriteConscious he lived a good long life. I’m just being selfish. I don’t like when the people I love die. I don’t know how I will handle Stephen King’s death when it happens. I’ll probably cry for days.
I’m glad I read Blood Meridian in the past couple months, before he passed. I really hope they are able to make the movie one of the best films of a generation. I plan to read all his other works of literature.
Of course! Going to have a ton of deep dives into those. Hundreds if not thousands of more McCarthy videos are coming lol. Just hard to sort through and pick where to start.
Me! Go check out my Cormac McCarthy biography videos linked below. There are a couple in the series already. Diane C. Luce will write a good one, but my version will include the crazy details and psychological profiling she won't cover lmao. ua-cam.com/video/zVuZaynmLvQ/v-deo.html
RIP McCarthy. True master. p.s. - Your story about yoga is interesting. Have you ever heard or tried the "incubation" (ancient greek meditation). Peter Kingsley wrote books about ancient-greek tradition of meditation and philosophy, maybe you should try to read it.
As someone who has read all of mccarthys works barring outer dark which i intend to get round to this year. I found it strange that you would insinuate that blood meridian only ever ended up resonating with an audience was because people in society became enamored with violence for violence sake and that there is little more to be derived with the exception of the idea of the judge. It seems to me like quite a diminishing statement for a work that is certainly more anti western than western. It effectively deconstructs the popular myth of the western frontier
For sure, but I don't know if you've noticed the resurgence of BM over the last decade. It has been a totally different audience. Very obsessed with the violence. There first was the 1992 wave. And when you look at the 1992 vintage republication numbers it wasn't that much more popular than his other books in terms of sales. However, between 92 and 2007 people like Harold Bloom and others started to get behind the novel. It started to build the base of legitimacy for the 2007 & 2009 wave from NCFOM & The Road movies. This was my wave, and I was very active the community. Not much obsession over BM. There were a few people that were obsessive. Now, i get weekly messages from people who want to talk about the rape and worst elements of the book lol. Most of the new readers of BM don't even know what an anti-western is. They aren't approaching it from the all the pretty horses or hard Bloom angle
3 weeks ago i got into blood meridian . I will now read be ause of him. Ironically id seen country for old men. Loved it obviously. Hypnosis with words. Best villian of all time with judge . I dont like the judge but he is a phenomenal character. Honest depiction of evil.
Hey man, sad news. Hope you are doing good. Hopefully he got a decent chunk of the screenplay finished. Does this mean you’ll be jumping on the biography series again? Also when are we moving on to the next work in McCarthy? Haven’t seen you in the discord much lately.
Billy Parram and Boyd are our inner twin and that twinship of human consciousness as persona and shadow as what C.McCarthy brings forth as mythic genius.
It is a combination of all McCarthy's best qualities as a writer. It has beautiful nature writing, a push against civilization, philosophical inquiries, dream sequences, random stories, loss, longing, grief, and one of the stronger plots of any McCarthy novel.
@WriteConscious I've only read 3 McCarthy novels, The Road, No Country, and Blood Meridian, as well as The Counselor screenplay and a viewing of Sunset Limited. One thing I've noticed is that there doesn't seem to be much of a place for women in his world. I'm curious if this is an element you've examined or perhaps I've been misreading the man?
Im more of a Stephen King reader and a Tom Clancy and E.B. White reader, didn't really get into McCarthy books 📚 rest in peace 🕊️ sure. Im 47 now grew up on those maybe other i can't think right now.
Love your channel, love Cormac McCarthy RIP. But I have to disagree, TS Eliot csn change your life, he changed mine when I first read him in a high school English class. It was through Eliot I gained a love of literature and eventually went on to get a BA in English lit, and that love of literature eventually led me to McCarthy. And then to your awesome channel!
I love your videos on McCarthy, but why you always hating on Catcher in the Rye? I get it’s probably bigger than it should be compared to all the other great literature that doesn’t get enough recognition, but that’s still a great book. Have you read any of Salingers other stuff?
The last of the true, I think they are all under saving me and thee would you not. Now even mccarthy is gone, uncle ted is too. I need to grow up and take life more seriously. I am smart, I know that. but I could never feel like my peers since the past half a dozen years.I finally feel ashamed for my year of degeneracy at last. I guess its all began now. You believe that don't you?
Love your tribute, don’t know if you had a script for this but the love and mirth pours out of you. Your video about Epstein and SFI was so good and fuck anyone who tries to secondsay that. What’s interesting is a theory I heard kicking around that Cameron Diaz’s character in The Counselor was inspired by Ghislaine Maxwell
Never script my videos! I also saw that theory on substack if I remember lol. That inspired me to do my Epstein video because she wasn't scared to make even bigger claims.
Lmao, yes... The prize is very corrupt. An American novelist hasn't won in 30 years lmao. Only two have won in the last 50. Only six authors in the past 30 years deserved it based on objective merit (listed below). They're so political that they selected Bob Dylan, so they didn't have to give it to the three most deserving authors for the prize. Who happen to all be white American males. Pynchon Delillio McCarthy Also, there are much better poets from all around the world than Bob Dylan lol. I love his work and impact, but they guaranteed themselves that they wouldn't have to give an award to the three above because they'd be guaranteed to die in a decade. Even better, I bet they will give it to Stephen King in about five years or so because he agrees with them politically. However, King (even though I think he is mid) would be a better choice than 75% of the people they've picked since the 80's 🤣 To clarify, here are the people I think were deserving over the last 30 years. Toni Morrison Gunter Grass Octavio Paz Tomas Tranströmer Kazuo Ishiguro Alice Munro You could argue for Seamus Heaney, but in the early 90's when he got it, some amazing poets were still alive. I've also read something from all the winners over the last fifty years and have rankings in my head of who deserves it. Michel Houellebecq who in terms of merit, location (European), and following should get the award may get passed up like McCarthy because of his outspoken stances against Islam in France.
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In a world of Jordan Petersons, Andrew Tates, social media influencers, and dumbed down academia, we needed McCarthy more than ever to show us what it means to live a good life in the face of modernity. I keep dreaming of a day I could meet him and he could show me the way, but in the end he gave us his books and those are enough.
Thank you McCarthy for all that you’ve given us.
100% - What those guys preach is basic shit that is meant to put you down an ideological funnel. Reading McCarthy projects no ideology and only promotes growth the more you get into him.
@remnantrider Naw, I've read both of Jordan's books, watched all his free courses, and heard a bunch of his other content. He has pulled away from the core of his work and became 100% entrenched in the political culture war. Which is fine, but his strengths are as a Jungian analyst and a therapist. Right after his fame he got hooked on Benzo's and has never been the same and puts out no new content in his area of expertise (other than random moments in podcasts if he actually has a psychologist on.) Now he is interviewing Netanyahu, focusing almost exclusively on the Bible, and working with the Daily Wire. Which are everything that is wrong with the right. It's all just the same malignant conservative thought rewrapped for the modern polarization algorithm. I am not a leftist either. The direction Jordan and friends are taking is a repeat of the same cycle we've been through for thousands of years between the left and right.
Cormac's work has much more to offer than Jordans. Mostly because Jordan's message is now entrenched with the political. As a Jungian, Jordan's work on psychology/Jung isn't even in the top 500 (if not 1000 or more.) As a lover of personal development Jordan's work isn't in the top 10,000 lol. So, what we get with Jordan's work is a former psychologist who is very intelligent engaging with the insanity of leftist culture. But, in the long run that does nothing but suck people into red herring time wasters.
If you read into Jung and Peterson's influences than of course they have more to offer than Cormac. But, Cormac's focus on building a relationship with nature, his focus on science, and messaging about human nature gives way more bang because there is no idealogical funnel you have to subscribe to. If everyone went and connected to nature the world would have dramatic shift larger than every conservative voice combined. If everyone studied science deeply religion and other major artifices would be wiped out or revamped. Thus changing the world. If people contemplated our violent history they'd be more willing to make changes in their attitudes about war/violence.
There will never be another. Hopefully the rights to his books won’t be purchased and made into poor adaptions by philistines.
Jesus. Don't even mention that right now lol. That is a nightmare
I cried when Cormac passed - he was my favorite American novelist. No one comes close. RIP. 💔
That happened today?!?
Holy crap, I just discovered Cormac McCarthy about a month and a half ago, and I’m 53. I’ve made my way through most of his books since then, but only able to do so on audio because I drive a truck and if I’m not driving, I’m sleeping.
Yes, very sad news. But, he made it to 90 and published two books right before he died which is great.
@@WriteConscious I was surprised that he’s resonated so much with me. My other favorite writers are William Gibson and Orson Scott Card so he’s a ride off into a completely new territory for me.
That's an amazing fact that he didn't make any money until All The Pretty Horses. I mean can you imagine creating something like Sutree or Blood Meridian and not having success? I didn't know that. A great man and a great tribute to him. Keep making your videos man.
Yup. He made anywhere from $4,000 - $6,000 total for Blood Meridian until he exploded in 1992 lmao. Imagine.. Thanks for the support!
Great eulogy, dude. He was and continues to be the singular most influential writer on my life. So sad to see him go, but I'm inspired by his life and the way he lived by his own truth and the miracle of presence.
Same! Thanks for all the comments and support!
Oh man this hurts. Can't believe he's gone. Greatest writer of modern times, gone but never forgotten. R.I.P. Cormac McCarthy. A legend has died. 😭😭😭
The FALCON HAS LANDED! It's up to you to continue on his legacy!
@@WriteConscious Well, ironically I do actually have a book I'm just about ready to put out there. This may be a sign; I'm the one to take up the mantle! 😎
Follow your interests! Your enthusiasm is infectious! I love this channel
Thanks Paul!
Edit 2: I think this was your best video yet. Such a fitting tribute. Thank you for your work, having the balls to speak the truth, and sharing your honest thoughts. I’m going down to the park now to watch the hawks🥲
“Men like him are few and far between” that’s the damn truth. The number and variety of places he called home is an inspiration to how I want to live my life. I hope to continue to cultivate a wide experience of life in a similar manner. I find immersing oneself in a new physical & cultural landscape deepens my respect for nature and empathy for mankind.
Edit: “bob dylan?!!? Are you ducking kidding me?!” That gave a laugh on this sad day.
Haha, thanks for all the kind words Ben! We got decades to expand and grow like Cormac did.
Loved this video and commentary. Im a 33 year old artist also in the societal hamster wheel. Recently dove into Cormac after years of lurking. Awesome channel and I look forward to learning as im reading his works. (The Road, NCFOM, ATPH i have read and adore.)
Happy 3k 🎉
Thanks!!
@@WriteConscious yw
RIP - Glad I came across your channel! He's inspired me in ways I struggle to quantify.
Agreed.
Thanks Brandon!! Feel the same way
Excellent and heartfelt tribute to a giant. Thank you! I’ve just subscribed to your channel and look forward to your other videos.
Among many other trenchant observations in this video, two stand out to me (in light of having just finished a re-reading of Blood Meridian, currently reading The Passenger, and of course, ruminations on his passing):
1) your statement on not ever wanting to was time again on the bullshit mind-numbing drivel that’s shoveled out to us. A simple but pretty damn profound song (in hindsight) from my youth is in my head now, “Ain’t Wasting Time No More” by the Allman Brothers.
2) a fascinating comment on the upcoming Oppenheimer movie. Yeah, obviously it’s not out yet, but from all early indications? Well, I can’t wait, and I agree that this would be a film that would definitely have had Cormac MacCarthy in the theater to watch, had he lived.
To close this rambling mess even more messily, I wanted to mention another genius in a whole ‘nother realm who has fairly recently passed on , Norm MacDonald. Although I’ve plowed right into The Passenger after re-reading Blood Meridian, I did take a few days on UA-cam to rewatch and relisten to some of Norm’s great standup material, as well as clips from SNL Weekend Update and his Norm MacDonald Live show (a true anarchic, freaking hilarious gem). I highly recommend interspersing reading Cormac MacCarthy with watching/listening to the comedy of Norm.
Very sad news. I live near Maryville TN where Cormac lived for quite awhile. Our county library has a rock mosaic that Cormac and a friend built in the Seventies. I will leave some flowers there tomorrow. The home you mentioned is in nearby Friendsville TN. Cormac used bricks from James Agee's childhood home when he read it was being demolished in Knoxville.
Nice! I've been learning a ton about Maryville while researching The Orchard Keeper. Can't wait to visit! What is that library's name?
Discovering Cormac McCarthy was a turning point in my life as well. Truly the last of his kind. Where can you find Autumn Magic to read online? Also the Crossing is underrated in my opinion. Moved me the most out of the McCarthy books I’ve read.
I couldn't tell you. I will return to this comment when I find it in one of my videos. I had it sent to me from a scholar and deleted the email but its in some video I made lol.
Thx for posting dude, needed to hear someone, hits hard...thanks... Gonna miss him
No worries man. I am happy we have a group here to take the blow. Been waiting for this for 15 years now.
I have had eight concussions and reading is saving my life. Thanks for your tribute to my favorite author.
I don't know if you're a fan of the channel but I had some really bad TBI's earlier in life and reading and yoga saved my life!
Thought of this channel and a few close friends when I heard the news
Thanks for the thoughts Joe!
Every time depression troubles me The Road gives me hope, gives me appetite for life. Makes me appreciate a can of pears. Flashlight, candle, food, shoes.
I must be screwed up, but I read it the first time as "fleshlight" lmao. The finer things in life 😂
I will never forget the feeling of my first read from his legion of horribles passage. He was a master.
100%
So sad, currently reading Blood Meridian for the first time off the back of the recent hype around it. God bless him.
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The world lost a master, and it is worse off for it. Whatever the answer, I hope he had those age old questions answered at long last at the end. Rest in Peace, Cormac McCarthy. There are no words capable of capturing what I feel right now.
Beautiful tribute AJP!
Man, this is some sad news, I'm grateful tho. I found out by your video, love your videos, feels more than educating us but entertaining.
Thanks for the support! Don't want to be to academic and dry. If we are going to change the world through books we have to be entertaining!
First Hilary Mantel and now Cormac Mcarthy. Sad they are gone but their work shall live on
You forgot Ted Kaczynski
Devastating news.
Thanks for your reporting.
Thanks for listening!
Just read "All the Pretty Horses". He shattered me with that one. God, the pain. But sooooo beautiful.🌹
Wait until you read The Crossing!
I had a love / hate relationship with McCarthy because I found it so hard to read any other author for a long long time. He didn't just fill a gap in my appetite for literature, he hammered a big wooden wedge in there and nobody else could fit.
I hope he never underestimated the difference he made in this world. He was a true master of the written word.
Gotta start living more then! There are a ton of modalities of consciousness McCarthy never explores.
Just got notice of the obit in the Times. Came right to your site. Thank you, Ian, for all of your work and enthusiasm bringing ideas about this mans work to us.
At least he saw The Passenger and Stella Maris get introduced to the world. Yes, im glad I have read beyond the blockbusters into the Orchard Keeper, Outer Dark, and Suttree.
Thanks Barbara for everything you do! I am happy he saw he last books released, and has set his son up with a great life and artistic opportunities with the Blood Meridian movie.
Suttree is my favourite. It just transports you the way books easily could when you were a young reader, but as an adult. Hypnotic.
Yes!
he died 9 days ago and i found out JUST NOW?
Goddamn.
I'm so, so, so glad i experienced his art right before he left this world. R.I.P.
Me too!
Nice tribute. Enjoying your McCarthy posts.
"... Oblivion cannot be appeased."
He would want us to not worry about him or his legacy. I just hope he had nothing left to say.
Me too. I think he knew Stella Maris was the end of the line. That's why he took so many shots at all different people and parts of life lol.
Thanks so much for this fitting tribute. I want to encourage you to “keep holding the fire”. You are significant. Light and truth are departing from this world and younger people like yourself are rare. May the Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you always in your writing and living endeavours. All the best.
Thanks!
This video is amazing.
Thank you for continuing to bring honest awareness to his life, his work, and his legacy.
Thanks!
His writing had a way of drawing you in and never letting you go. Words can't really describe the emotions his tales brought forward in a person. In my opinion he was the last of the giants. What now?
We have to start promoting reading or focus on writing to help bring back the giants. Things move in cycles, and it seems like our job now is to prepare the way for a group that will come when we are older
Very sad to hear this. One of my friends from my writing group checked in on me when the news broke. Have you made a video on McCarthy’s literary influences?
I deleted my comment cause it felt snooty in the wake of McCarthy's death, but since you asked, Catcher in the Rye was the first book I really related to. It's similar to the sorrows of young writher by Goethe, an angsty young man in a world overrun by phony appearances who's intelligent enough to see through them yet too manic to help himself. This is a tragic figure for the modern age. Holden's isolation and fear of growing up I still relate to now that I'm older but thanks to Catcher in the Rye's simple yet burning prose, I learned that writing is the proper outlet for such feelings. That's how it changed my life.
I understand. Have taught it plenty of times in my classes and kids seem to like it!
Where could I find his publication in his high school news paper. Sounds interesting.
Damn, this hurts. There are so few good modern writers that I, like you, do not read the tripe that makes its way into bookstores. I really only read classics and a few modern classics. McCarthy is one of those people that contributed something REALLY excellent---something that 99.99% of modern writers can only dream of and will never achieve. I actually get angry when I read a modern novel because I'm like, THIS SUCKS. How do those ppl get their books published anyway? We are all moving through time and I'm just beyond grateful that I have lived in the time of Mr. McCarthy.💔 EDIT: This video is your magnum opus. Absolutely brilliant.
Beautifully said Nikki. I am so grateful that I can tell my kids I was at the bookstore waiting for them to open the doors for "The Passenger" release! Also, I agree about modern works. They aren't aspiring to write like the greats. I understand that it takes decades to get great, but there is zero potential in a lot of it.
Very few celebrity deaths have affected me like today. I feel like an uncle has died.
Yes! Very weird.
This world feels terribly lonely without a mind like Cormac inhabiting it anymore…
There will be more like him! We just have to either become that or make the road for them!
This is a very late comment, but I would just like to add that McCarthy is one of the few authors who actually expanded my world view. A truly great writer, unafraid of challenges and exploring the darkest corners of the human experience. There is much to admire about the man as well as his art.
A genius Americas greatest writers of the late 20th century and our current century .He truly is amazing writer who was invested in the aesthetic of life and the philosophical quest all writers must ponder. He will be missed dearly
Great way to put it Isaiah!
Thank you to Cormac McCarthy for everything he brought into this world. He changed me as a person and as long as I live he will be one of my inspirations in life. May he rest in peace.
Yes!
That was an awesome eulogy (and you are awesome for sharing with us your wealth of knowledge about Cormac Mcarthy) therefore it is only fitting that I should learn of his death from you. Now I'm going to go sit outside and begin to reread Suttree and allow my soul to mourn.
Hey! Glad I could be the one to let you know! Sad days
Cara isso me pegou com as calças areadas, eu terminei todos os belos cavalos a menos de 2 meses e amei e estou lendo meridiano de sangue e é uma experiência incrível. E saber que Cormac McCartney morreu e uma dor sem descrição e uma grande perda para a literatura mundial.
Descanse em paz Cormac McCartney vai fazer falta.
Desculpa irmão. Você tem sorte porque ainda há tantos grandes romances de McCarthy para ler!
@@WriteConscious quero ler a trilogia da fronteira, A Estrada e os seus ultimos dois romances, O PASSAGEIRO e STELLA MARIS
E esperar que saía os outros livros do Cormac no Brasil
Cormac McCarthy Streetwear if you want to rep McCarthy to the masses!
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You're kidding... I just read my first novel of his(Blood Meridian) for the first time like two weeks ago.
Sorry :)
@@WriteConscious yup, read it in 3 days(I don't get out much) and am already finding myself quoting "nihil dicit" all the time.
Great tribute, man. Appreciate your work.
Thanks Grant!
Sad that he won't see the Blood Meridian adaptation.
Or the Oppenheimer movie! Bad times
@@WriteConscious true. I just watched that last interview with him where he discussed Oppenheimer. I too wondered if would have seen that, and if he had finished the Blood Meridian script.
How lucky are we that he managed to get the passenger and Stella out to the world in time… 😞
I know, so awesome I got to witness one of his book launches
This breaks my heart. One of greats has passed. Rest in Power, Cormac McCarthy.
He lived a good life Gregory! The more I research the more I find about how much he experienced life.
@@WriteConscious he lived a good long life. I’m just being selfish. I don’t like when the people I love die. I don’t know how I will handle Stephen King’s death when it happens. I’ll probably cry for days.
I’m glad I read Blood Meridian in the past couple months, before he passed. I really hope they are able to make the movie one of the best films of a generation. I plan to read all his other works of literature.
You will love them all!
Can you make a video about his theatre plays?
Of course! Going to have a ton of deep dives into those. Hundreds if not thousands of more McCarthy videos are coming lol. Just hard to sort through and pick where to start.
Who will write his biography ?
Me! Go check out my Cormac McCarthy biography videos linked below. There are a couple in the series already. Diane C. Luce will write a good one, but my version will include the crazy details and psychological profiling she won't cover lmao.
ua-cam.com/video/zVuZaynmLvQ/v-deo.html
Damn...Rest easy, Cormac.
Great video, brother
Thanks Seth! Hope you're doing good brotha!
My boss, and my former music teacher texted me about his death. They knew I'm a fan
Sorry Yennefer :(
one of the all time American greats RIP :(
For sure! We do we turn to now?
RIP McCarthy. True master.
p.s. - Your story about yoga is interesting. Have you ever heard or tried the "incubation" (ancient greek meditation). Peter Kingsley wrote books about ancient-greek tradition of meditation and philosophy, maybe you should try to read it.
Yeah, I've done "incubation" a bunch. It's the foundational basis of Jung's Active Imagination techniques which I do every day.
As someone who has read all of mccarthys works barring outer dark which i intend to get round to this year. I found it strange that you would insinuate that blood meridian only ever ended up resonating with an audience was because people in society became enamored with violence for violence sake and that there is little more to be derived with the exception of the idea of the judge. It seems to me like quite a diminishing statement for a work that is certainly more anti western than western. It effectively deconstructs the popular myth of the western frontier
For sure, but I don't know if you've noticed the resurgence of BM over the last decade. It has been a totally different audience. Very obsessed with the violence.
There first was the 1992 wave. And when you look at the 1992 vintage republication numbers it wasn't that much more popular than his other books in terms of sales. However, between 92 and 2007 people like Harold Bloom and others started to get behind the novel. It started to build the base of legitimacy for the 2007 & 2009 wave from NCFOM & The Road movies. This was my wave, and I was very active the community. Not much obsession over BM. There were a few people that were obsessive.
Now, i get weekly messages from people who want to talk about the rape and worst elements of the book lol. Most of the new readers of BM don't even know what an anti-western is. They aren't approaching it from the all the pretty horses or hard Bloom angle
3 weeks ago i got into blood meridian . I will now read be ause of him. Ironically id seen country for old men. Loved it obviously. Hypnosis with words. Best villian of all time with judge . I dont like the judge but he is a phenomenal character. Honest depiction of evil.
Yes!
Hey man, sad news. Hope you are doing good. Hopefully he got a decent chunk of the screenplay finished.
Does this mean you’ll be jumping on the biography series again? Also when are we moving on to the next work in McCarthy? Haven’t seen you in the discord much lately.
Alastair! Will email you back tomorrow brotha! We are moving on soon!
Billy Parram and Boyd are our inner twin and that twinship of human consciousness as persona and shadow as what C.McCarthy brings forth as mythic genius.
Beautiful take!
An absolute giant and I'm so sad he's gone.
Be happy we got to be alive to witness a couple of his books published!
Well, if it weren't for Eliot's Four Quartets, I wouldn't have survived the pandemic, BUT, I think I am subbing you good.
Lol, Eliot fans coming through hard in the comments 😂
He published those last two just in time... Lucky us. RIP
Exactly!
Just out of curiosity what other authors do you like?
Just released a video on who I think the best living authors are!
It seemed impossible that a Blood Meridian film would have been made with he was a alive let alone now.
His son may carry it on! He is an artist himself and is very close with Cormac
It’s up to you to carry on his legacy
Lol, up to US Iram! You're the jung crit academic still creeping the halls! You can hold down that side of the fort.
I just started rereading The Crossing and I remember you saying it was your favorite. What about it spoke to you so directly?
It is a combination of all McCarthy's best qualities as a writer. It has beautiful nature writing, a push against civilization, philosophical inquiries, dream sequences, random stories, loss, longing, grief, and one of the stronger plots of any McCarthy novel.
@@WriteConscious damn, bro. I’ve read it before but you’ve sold me on it again.
@@WriteConscious I know it’s easier said than done but PLEASE upload audio to a podcast platform someday.
Cormac McCarthy Underground has all my stuff up until a couple months ago. Need to dedicate a couple hours to catching up
The greatest writer of our time.
Easily
Wonder what's going to happen to the movie now
The Blood Meridian Curse continues!
Follow your heart
One of America's greatest men of letters.
agreed!
@WriteConscious I've only read 3 McCarthy novels, The Road, No Country, and Blood Meridian, as well as The Counselor screenplay and a viewing of Sunset Limited. One thing I've noticed is that there doesn't seem to be much of a place for women in his world. I'm curious if this is an element you've examined or perhaps I've been misreading the man?
Go check out my video "Is Cormac McCarthy a Misogynist" for an analysis of this!
Im more of a Stephen King reader and a Tom Clancy and E.B. White reader, didn't really get into McCarthy books 📚 rest in peace 🕊️ sure. Im 47 now grew up on those maybe other i can't think right now.
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It is so sad...
Very!
Love your channel, love Cormac McCarthy RIP. But I have to disagree, TS Eliot csn change your life, he changed mine when I first read him in a high school English class. It was through Eliot I gained a love of literature and eventually went on to get a BA in English lit, and that love of literature eventually led me to McCarthy. And then to your awesome channel!
Haha, what's up Rat! The Eliot fans are rolling up on me in the comments right now 😂
Wow, this hurts. Truly.
Bad times!
Why he avoid Grigori Perelman on Stela Maris
lmao... Because Grigori was six when the novel took place?? In The Passenger he was 14 and had no accomplishments to his name.
Sorry bro. i Forgot the notion of time on the books@@WriteConscious a hug
I love your videos on McCarthy, but why you always hating on Catcher in the Rye? I get it’s probably bigger than it should be compared to all the other great literature that doesn’t get enough recognition, but that’s still a great book. Have you read any of Salingers other stuff?
The last of the true, I think they are all under saving me and thee would you not.
Now even mccarthy is gone, uncle ted is too. I need to grow up and take life more seriously. I am smart, I know that. but I could never feel like my peers since the past half a dozen years.I finally feel ashamed for my year of degeneracy at last. I guess its all began now. You believe that don't you?
Lol, The Underground Man. Is that you??
You are the keeper of the flame now bro .
I am moved.
Thanks for all your thoughts on Cormac on this channel Ernesto!
Rest in peace
He accomplished a ton in his life. He will.
Bravo!
Thanks Rob!
R.I.P
Agreed. What's the point? They should focus on doing tv shows for the passenger and Suttree. Much easier to pull off.
R.I.P.
:(
You were 14 in 2007?!?!?
🤣😂🥲😂🤣
(translation: damn, I’m old)
They only good thing about getting old is dying!
@@WriteConscious Hope you saw my follow up reply to that. I was primarily making a joke about how old that makes me feel.
RIP
:(
Love your tribute, don’t know if you had a script for this but the love and mirth pours out of you.
Your video about Epstein and SFI was so good and fuck anyone who tries to secondsay that. What’s interesting is a theory I heard kicking around that Cameron Diaz’s character in The Counselor was inspired by Ghislaine Maxwell
Never script my videos! I also saw that theory on substack if I remember lol. That inspired me to do my Epstein video because she wasn't scared to make even bigger claims.
Oh, is he the guy that wrote moby dick? That was a pretty good book. He must have been getting pretty old. Sad to hear he died.
“And I only am escaped alone to tell thee.”
You really think Cormac would have given a shit about the Oppenheimer film? Bro…
He was a huge fan of film throughout his entire life? He wasn't a recluse.
rip
:(
GOAT.
yes!
🧡
Damn.
Yup
Gone too soon
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So you mean to say Bob Dylan doesn't deserve the Nobel Prize?
Lmao, yes... The prize is very corrupt. An American novelist hasn't won in 30 years lmao. Only two have won in the last 50. Only six authors in the past 30 years deserved it based on objective merit (listed below). They're so political that they selected Bob Dylan, so they didn't have to give it to the three most deserving authors for the prize. Who happen to all be white American males.
Pynchon
Delillio
McCarthy
Also, there are much better poets from all around the world than Bob Dylan lol. I love his work and impact, but they guaranteed themselves that they wouldn't have to give an award to the three above because they'd be guaranteed to die in a decade. Even better, I bet they will give it to Stephen King in about five years or so because he agrees with them politically. However, King (even though I think he is mid) would be a better choice than 75% of the people they've picked since the 80's 🤣
To clarify, here are the people I think were deserving over the last 30 years.
Toni Morrison
Gunter Grass
Octavio Paz
Tomas Tranströmer
Kazuo Ishiguro
Alice Munro
You could argue for Seamus Heaney, but in the early 90's when he got it, some amazing poets were still alive.
I've also read something from all the winners over the last fifty years and have rankings in my head of who deserves it. Michel Houellebecq who in terms of merit, location (European), and following should get the award may get passed up like McCarthy because of his outspoken stances against Islam in France.
lol he made you "become a luddite"? You might wanna read the definition of luddite.
Yes, at a different time in my life. I lived in the Desert for three years without a phone, job, or responsibility. I am now back like Zarathustra.