Episode IX: A Cannibal of a Craft
Moby-Dick's Influence on Blood Meridian
1. The Black and Seamless Sea
In a 2007 interview with Rolling Stone, Cormac McCarthy told nonfiction writer David Kushner that while “he reserves high praise for a few contemporary narratives (“Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a classic of our time”), his list of great novels stops at four: Ulysses, The Brothers Karamazov, The Sound and the Fury and hi…