THE NIGHT DOES NOT END

THE NIGHT DOES NOT END

Episode IX: A Cannibal of a Craft

Moby-Dick's Influence on Blood Meridian

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Aaron Gwyn
Feb 05, 2023
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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…

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