Daily Cormac McCarthy podcasts exploring alternative perspectives. Breaking free from the academic lullabies plaguing the McCarthy community, this show delivers massive energy through a playful approach to McCarthy's work. Our deep dive series cover McCarthy's synergy with Nature, God, language, evil, philosophy, and psychology. Chapter-by-chapter breakdowns are in the works for every McCarthy work from endless lenses. Dynamic interviews with McCarthy scholars help integrate many of this cha ...
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Cormac McCarthy & Philosophy Interview w/ Dr. Patrick O'Connor
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What is Cormac McCarthy's connection to Western Philosophy? In today's interview with Professor of Philosophy Patrick O'Connor, we deep dive into Cormac McCarthy's connection to philosophy! Dr. O'Connor is the author of "Cormac McCarthy Philosophy and the Physics of the Damned" and is one of the more vibrant McCarthy scholars. Today we discuss McCa…
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Cormac McCarthy's Punk Roots with @Cinemartyr
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In this episode of the Cormac McCarthy Underground, we are joined by Cormac McCarthy fan Shane Harrington, the founder of the band Cinemartyr. https://www.youtube.com/@CINEMARTYR https://www.instagram.com/cine.martyr/Ian Cattanach tarafından oluşturuldu
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Cormac McCarthy Podcast: Incest, Physics, & Alchemy w/ @theworldofa.j.p.7472
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On this episode of the Cormac McCarthy Underground, we are joined by fellow BookTuber @theworldofa.j.p.7472 . If you guys like Cormac McCarthy content, go check out some of his videos and subscribe (more video links down below!) This video had some audio issues that cut off an entire hour, so we will have to collab again and bring the Blood Meridia…
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Cormac McCarthy Just Died: What We Can Learn From His Life
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Cormac McCarthy died this morning at his Santa Fe, N.M. home. He was 89. The cause is unknown, but this is a massive blow to literature. Cormac McCarthy was our greatest living novelist, and few others will fill the void. Over the past seven months, I've released almost 100 videos on McCarthy, and I plan to make thousands more over the decades. Wit…
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Cormac McCarthy loved Ernest Hemingway, and today I'll discuss the relationship between the two. For some reason, you can't mention Papa Hemingway in the title without getting demonetized, so expect more weird titles in the future lol.Ian Cattanach tarafından oluşturuldu
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The historical device Cormac McCarthy uses in Blood Meridian to display Judge Holden's supernatural strength is the Tucson Meteor. In this video, we will discuss how McCarthy uses the meteorite, vibe on the meteor's history, and discuss how strong Judge Holden really is...Ian Cattanach tarafından oluşturuldu
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Cormac McCarthy had some positive and negative words for Albert Einstein in his last novel "Stella Maris." Today we will examine Einstein's relation to Arthur Schopenhauer, Einstein/McCarthy's view of free will, and another fun physics-related talk! LETS GO!Ian Cattanach tarafından oluşturuldu
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In this video, we talk about Cormac McCarthy's first and second awakenings! We are joined by Alistar for this video, and if you want to hear more crazy theories, tune into our podcast dropping in a few hours!Ian Cattanach tarafından oluşturuldu
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Cormac McCarthy studied occultism throughout his entire life. Today we will be tracking the influences of the occult in his work!Ian Cattanach tarafından oluşturuldu
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In half of Cormac McCarthy's novels, he plays with the axiomatic biblical idea that women in distress are the downfall of men. I will track McCarthy's use of the damsel in distress trope in this video! We will also discuss how Cormac's personal life probably influenced his ideas on this issue 🤣Ian Cattanach tarafından oluşturuldu
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Cormac McCarthy on Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Cormac McCarthy is a massive fan of Ludwig Wittgenstein. In this clip, Cormac talks about Wittgenstein's early days, his stylistic esotericism, and how to live the life of a philosopher!Ian Cattanach tarafından oluşturuldu
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Cormac McCarthy's Replacement - Greatest Living Author?
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Who is the greatest living author now that Cormac McCarthy has died? Honestly, there aren't many! Cormac is such an OG in the game and making this list made me very pessimistic for fiction writing until a new wave of writers emerge!Ian Cattanach tarafından oluşturuldu
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Cormac McCarthy's Novel's Tarot Correspondence
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If Cormac McCarthy's novels were tarot cards, what would they be? For all the tarot haters out there, McCarthy was very familiar with the tarot and used it in Blood Meridian to foreshadow the entire novel. I'll be making a breakdown on that soon! However, in this video, I will break down the tarot correspondence to all twelve of McCarthy's novels a…
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Cormac McCarthy's Literary Kinks
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Almost all of Cormac McCarthy's novels feature some weird stuff... Today, we are going to be breaking down all the taboo topics in McCarthy novels!Ian Cattanach tarafından oluşturuldu
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Judge Holden Character Analysis - Blood Meridian
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Blood Meridian's Judge Holden is a favorite for lit bro's to fixate on! However, today we will transcend "THE JUDGE IS THE DEVIL" idea and do a historical and philosophical analysis of Judge Holden. We first turn to examine Samuel Chamberlain's memoir, which McCarthy STOLE a ton of ideas/stories about Judge Holden from. This will help set up a foun…
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Cormac McCarthy on Death & the Afterlife
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What does Cormac McCarthy believe happens after death? Is Cormac McCarthy a Christian? Did Cormac McCarthy write about his death through his novels before it happened? We will answer all these questions today and more with this deep philosophical dive into Cormac McCarthy's views on death!Ian Cattanach tarafından oluşturuldu
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CORMAC MCCARTHY IS WRITING THE BLOOD MERIDIAN MOVIE!!!
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Cormac McCarthy is a co-writer for the Blood Meridian movie screenplay! This is massive news for the potential of this movie. However, at the age of 90, is McCarthy really up to the task of turning this into a masterpiece? The Blood Meridian movie has been attempted to be done over five times, but now that McCarthy has his hands in, it should come …
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One of the best scenes in Blood Meridian is when Judge Holden trolls the revival tent 😂 However, Reverend Green is a historical character. We will be examining how Cormac McCarthy turned two sentences in an obscure book into this iconic scene!Ian Cattanach tarafından oluşturuldu
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Blood Meridian's Comanche Attack
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Blood Meridian's Comanche attack is one of the most iconic moments in literature history. However, today we will track where McCarthy got his information for the Comanche attack, the history of the Comanche, and how McCarthy wrote such a beautiful scene!Ian Cattanach tarafından oluşturuldu
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Suttree's Existentialism - Cormac McCarthy Podcast
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Cormac McCarthy's Suttree is an absurd classic, and today we will be examining Suttree through Sarte and Camus' definition of existentialism!Ian Cattanach tarafından oluşturuldu
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IS CORMAC MCCARTHY A MISOGYNIST???
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Cormac McCarthy has been flamed for decades for his lack of female characters, objectification of women, using male movies for female characters, and seeing women as vessels for exploitation. Today, I will be examining and refuting these claims!Ian Cattanach tarafından oluşturuldu
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The Blood Meridian Movie Soundtrack has the potential to be a classic! However, we are stuck with Nick Cave... So, what music do you think should be in the movie? Please include links to the songs on YouTube so we can listen! Wayfarer: Best Blood Meridian-Inspired Music. It could be used in any battle scene or as the intro music https://www.youtube…
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Welcome to a new Cormac McCarthy miniseries on how to write like Cormac McCarthy! Today we are focusing on how McCarthy got so great at writing landscape/nature passages! 🌵💼 In McCarthy's novels, the setting isn't just a backdrop, it becomes a living, breathing character in its own right. From the barren and unforgiving landscapes of "Blood Meridia…
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With the publication of The Passenger/Stella Maris, Wendigoon making a video on Blood Meridian, and the announcement of the Blood Meridian movie Cormac McCarthy's work is attracting many new fans. McCarthy's logical, violent, and nature-oriented novels draw a very bizarre group of men 🤣 In this video, I discuss how we should approach and feel about…
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What genre is Cormac McCarthy? The obvious answer is literary fiction, but in today's show, we will explore if The Border Trilogy, The Road, No Country For Old Men, Outer Dark, Child of God, and The Orchard Keeper are genre works!Ian Cattanach tarafından oluşturuldu
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Rating Cormac McCarthy's Novels
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We are playing a fun game of over/under rated today! This isn't my definitive ranking video, but a response to the community's perception of McCarthy's novels! If you want to partpiate, copy the The Orchard Keeper: Outer Dark: Child of God: Suttree: Blood Meridian: All the Pretty Horses: The Crossing Cities of the Plain No Country for Old Men: The …
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Today we are diving into some Cormac McCarthy quotes and comments not available anywhere online! What does Cormac McCarthy think about God? What role does language play in Cormac McCarthy's work? In the early drafts of McCarthy's unpublished screenplay "Whales and Men," he explores these ideas more than any other work. He wrote "Whales and Men" rig…
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In this video, we look at the most definitive quote in Cormac McCarthy's career on the purpose of life. No, it is not violence, getting tough like David Goggins, being an existentialist, or a logic bro. It's something most of us have never had and avoid like the plague!Ian Cattanach tarafından oluşturuldu
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Cormac McCarthy on Desert Mythology
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Some of Cormac McCarthy's best novels take place in a Desert setting, and in today's video, we will hear from Cormac McCarthy about the Desert. After Cormac is done, we will discuss what he said, I'll recommend some of the best books on the Desert, and I'll conclude with a section on individuation in the Desert.…
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In this spoiler-free introduction to Cormac McCarthy's debut novel The Orchard Keeper, I discuss what you need to know before reading one of McCarthy's more challenging novels.Ian Cattanach tarafından oluşturuldu
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Blood Meridian's Critique of Capitalism
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What is Judge Holden a Judge of in Blood Meridian? In today's video, I will argue Judge Holden is a representation of dark capital and explore the destructive and mystical elements of currency in Blood Meridian.Ian Cattanach tarafından oluşturuldu
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Blood Meridan by Cormac McCarthy features an idiot. McCarthy takes a unique take on idiocy and diverts from classical literature and his mentors, Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor. In this video, we discuss the role of The Idiot in Blood Meridian, analyze his character, and discuss Cormac McCarthy's motive for including him in Blood Meridian!…
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Today I will be analyzing the claim by author David Foster Wallace that Cormac McCarthy started to write more for money/fame after Blood Meridian!Ian Cattanach tarafından oluşturuldu
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Blood Meridian's Faerie Lore
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Cormac McCarthy's novel Blood Meridian is packed with fairy lore, liminal spaces, and otherworldly beings. Exploring the Sonoran, Chihuahuan, and Sierra Madre Occidental faerie zones in Blood Meridian enables a reader to transcend the western woodland conception of fairies into the Duende spirit. A manifestation of an otherworldly evil. Judge Holde…
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An adaption of Cormac Mccarthy's Blood Meridian has just been announced! New Regency will back the film with John Hillcoat (UGH) directing it! The movie will seemingly come out in 2025, with Cormac McCarthy and his son John McCarthy serving as executive producers. Do you think Blood Meridian should become a movie? Who do you think should be cast as…
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Cormac McCarthy's Antihumanism Crisis
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Cormac McCarthy isn't really a fan of humans... Today's video is a fun roller coaster exploring Cormac McCarthy's connection to anti-humanism. I EVOKE the OG of eco-poetry, Robinson Jeffers, cry, and discuss the psychic weight of being an anti-humanist in 2023. LETS GO!Ian Cattanach tarafından oluşturuldu
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This one is for all my rocket men out there! Cormac McCarthy had much to say about nuclear weapons, the Manhattan project, and his trauma in "Stella Maris" and "The Passenger." Today I will be breaking down McCarthy's passages about nukes!Ian Cattanach tarafından oluşturuldu
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What's Cormac McCarthy's Hardest Book?
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What is Cormac McCarthy's Hardest Book? Cormac McCarthy is known to write long books with atavistic words, perambulating dialogue, and side-quests meant to quirt you into acceptance. Let me know your rankings down below!Ian Cattanach tarafından oluşturuldu
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"Wake For Susan" by Cormac McCarthy Audiobook
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This is a narration/audiobook of Cormac McCarthy's first published short story "Wake for Suan." First published in Fall of 1959, "Wake For Susan" is instrumental for Cormac refining techniques he brings into the "Orchard Keeper" and "Outer Dark."Ian Cattanach tarafından oluşturuldu
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Who is Cormac McCarthy's favorite physicist? In this clip, we will hear who Cormac McCarthy admires and why he likes them. I will then explain how the physics lineage he follows aligns with his personal writing and life philosophy! LET'S GO!Ian Cattanach tarafından oluşturuldu
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Is Blood Meridian Unfilmable?
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There have been debates for years on if Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian is unfilmable. Today I will discuss how it could be made into a film or tv show, the elements that would make it a masterpiece, director picks, actor selections, and other fun stuff related to the movie! Cormac McCarthy Course: https://writeconscious.com/cormac-mccarthy-course…
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Ranking Cormac McCarthy's First Lines
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Does Cormac McCarthy cave to standard writing advice? All of us have heard about how important the first line is. Well, how seriously does Cormac McCarthy take the first line???Ian Cattanach tarafından oluşturuldu
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We are joined by Professor of Philosophy Patrick O'Connor to talk about Jacques Derrida and No Country for Old Men. Dr. O'Connor is the author of "Cormac McCarthy's Philosophy and the Physics of the Damned."Ian Cattanach tarafından oluşturuldu
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Cormac McCarthy's Book Covers RANKED
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What first-edition Cormac McCarthy book covers are the best? In 1992, when All The Pretty Horses was released, Cormac McCarthy had never sold more than 5,000 copies of a book. Six months after its release, All The Pretty Horses had sold nearly 200,000 copies. Why had McCarthy's books failed so hard before? Was it the covers? Marketing? Well, in thi…
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Cormac McCarthy is not just a massive fan of architecture. He also built his own house with his second wife. This video overlays images of Frank Lloyd Wright's Falling Water house while McCarthy talks about it. After the video, I will highlight some of the most revelatory parts of the video!Ian Cattanach tarafından oluşturuldu
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Cormac McCarthy on Carl Jung
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Cormac McCarthy seems to have a problem with Carl Jung. Today I will show Cormac McCarthy's rejection of Carl Jung's philosophy by analyzing his view on the unconscious and direct statements about Jung in Stella Maris.Ian Cattanach tarafından oluşturuldu
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Reading Bad Book Reviews of "All The Pretty Horses"
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An in-depth look at Nietche's philosophical influence within Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece novel "Blood Meridian." We will be joined by Professor of Philosophy Dr. Patrick O'Connor, who wrote a beautiful book titled "Cormac McCarthy Philosophy and the Physics of the Damned." In this video we will talk about the active nihilism of Judge Holden, The …
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OG McCarthy Scholar Interview with Dr. Greenwood
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Today we are joined by Dr. Willard Greenwood out of Hiram College to discuss Cormac McCarthy. This is the first episode of the Cormac McCarthy Underground Interview series, and I will have a couple more interviews on the way in April. In this video, we discuss "The Passenger," "Stella Maris," Cormac McCarthy's Flaws, and other topics related to McC…
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