Cormac McCarthy at 90 with Bill Hardwig and Wes Morgan

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The Knoxville-raised author of Suttree, Blood Meridian, The Orchard Keeper, No Country for Old Men, The Road, and The Passenger died last month, just a few weeks before he would have turned 90--on July 20, the date of our monthly program. Like few men his age, he was still very much in the news, with not one but two new novels out, both eliciting international interest, as well as rumors of another major movie deal concerning one of his most memorable novels. We’ll welcome two experts on the subject, both of whom have taught at Cormac’s alma mater: UT English professor and author Bill Hardwig, who has an upcoming book about the author’s prose style, and retired UT psychology professor Wes Morgan, who is the leading authority of what’s real in McCarthy’s East Tennessee books. For this wide-ranging discussion of McCarthy’s legacy, we’ll include some slides, including some historical images we’ve never shown in public before, of real Knoxville places McCarthy described, paired with his actual descriptions in novels.