Episode 8: The Cormac McCarthy Journal with Stacey Peebles

04/23/21 • 37 min

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READING MCCARTHY is a podcast devoted to the consideration and discussion of the works of one of our greatest American writers, Cormac McCarthy. Stacey Peebles joins the podcast for this episode. Dr. Peebles is Chair of the English program, Director of Film Studies, and the Marlene and David Grissom Professor of Humanities at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. She is the author of Welcome to the Suck: Narrating the American Soldier's Experience in Iraq (published in 2011) and Cormac McCarthy and Performance: Page, Stage, Screen (published 2017). She is editor of the collection Violence in Literature and, with Ben West, is co-editor of the volume Approaches to Teaching the Works of Cormac McCarthy, which is forthcoming this year. She has published widely on the representation of contemporary war and on McCarthy, and has been editor of the Cormac McCarthy Journal since 2010.

Thanks to Thomas Frye, who composed, performed, and produced the music for READING MCCARTHY. Music for today includes: Intro: “World to Come,” “ “Toadvine” (10:47), “Much Like Yourself” (23:45); “Running with Wolves” (32:16); Outro: “Blues for Blevins.”

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READING MCCARTHY is a podcast devoted to the consideration and discussion of the works of one of our greatest American writers, Cormac McCarthy. Each episode calls upon different well-known Cormackian readers and scholars to help us explore different works and various essential aspects of McCarthy’s writing. Scott Yarbrough is your host in these deep dives into the world of McCarthy.

Episode 9 of Reading McCarthy welcomes back Dr. Steven Frye in a consideration of the influence of American author Herman Melville on Cormac McCarthy. Steven Frye is professor and chair of English at California State University, Bakersfield and President of the Cormac McCarthy Society. He is the author of Understanding Cormac McCarthy (Univ. of South Carolina Press) and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Cormac McCarthy, and Cambridge UP’s Cormac McCarthy in Context. His book Unguessed Kinships: Naturalism and the Geography of Hope in Cormac McCarthy is near completion, and he has written numerous journal articles on Cormac McCarthy and other authors of the American Romance Tradition. Additionally, he is the author of the recently published novel Dogwood Crossing, which I highly recommend.

Music for READING MCCARTHY is composed, performed, and produced by Thomas Frye. The Intro is “The World to Come”; other music includes (16:46) “Running with Wolves,” (23:20) “Toadvine,” (43:26) “Much Like Yourself,” and the Outro, as always, is “Blues for Blevins.”

The opinions of the host and his guests do not necessarily reflect the opinions of their institutions or the Cormac McCarthy Society.

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