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Cormac McCarthy’s Midlife Crisis

By Michael O’Donnell Sep 12, 2026, 8:00 am88 pts
To understand Cormac McCarthy’s midlife crisis, look at America’s landscape. The fierce writer of biblical prose spent most of his first four decades anchored to Tennessee, a child of Appalachia with a lilting drawl and a regional outlook. By the early 1970s, he had published three Faulknerian…

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