http://www.theawl.com/ Be Less Stupid Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:55:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/cormac-mccarthy-interview#comment-38374 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/cormac-mccarthy-interview#comment-38374#comments Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:55:53 +0000 Tulletilsynet http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/cormac-mccarthy-interview#comment-38374 "[don't] deal with issues of life and death." That's as much of the sentence as appears within quotation marks (he did get to go on: "I don't understand them. To me, that's not literature. A lot of writers who are considered good I consider strange."), but it sure poisoned my well. I read that and went and read The Golden Bowl and couldn't help but think, These pissants and their petty pissant problems and all the idle ingenuity and energies they get to devote to them: You are so right, old man.]]> "[don't] deal with issues of life and death." That's as much of the sentence as appears within quotation marks (he did get to go on: "I don't understand them. To me, that's not literature. A lot of writers who are considered good I consider strange."), but it sure poisoned my well. I read that and went and read The Golden Bowl and couldn't help but think, These pissants and their petty pissant problems and all the idle ingenuity and energies they get to devote to them: You are so right, old man.]]> http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/cormac-mccarthy-interview#comment-38374/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/cormac-mccarthy-interview#comment-38372 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/cormac-mccarthy-interview#comment-38372#comments Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:38:13 +0000 Tulletilsynet http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/cormac-mccarthy-interview#comment-38372 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/cormac-mccarthy-interview#comment-38372/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/cormac-mccarthy-interview#comment-38331 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/cormac-mccarthy-interview#comment-38331#comments Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:33:29 +0000 Mary HK Choi http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/cormac-mccarthy-interview#comment-38331 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/cormac-mccarthy-interview#comment-38331/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/cormac-mccarthy-interview#comment-38258 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/cormac-mccarthy-interview#comment-38258#comments Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:24:03 +0000 brad http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/cormac-mccarthy-interview#comment-38258 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/cormac-mccarthy-interview#comment-38258/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/cormac-mccarthy-interview#comment-38153 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/cormac-mccarthy-interview#comment-38153#comments Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:02:26 +0000 wantonheretic http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/cormac-mccarthy-interview#comment-38153 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/cormac-mccarthy-interview#comment-38153/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/cormac-mccarthy-interview#comment-38137 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/cormac-mccarthy-interview#comment-38137#comments Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:44:54 +0000 wiilliiaamm http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/cormac-mccarthy-interview#comment-38137 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/cormac-mccarthy-interview#comment-38137/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/cormac-mccarthy-interview#comment-38132 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/cormac-mccarthy-interview#comment-38132#comments Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:36:58 +0000 HiredGoons http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/cormac-mccarthy-interview#comment-38132 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/cormac-mccarthy-interview#comment-38132/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/cormac-mccarthy-interview#comment-38128 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/cormac-mccarthy-interview#comment-38128#comments Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:34:05 +0000 Backslider http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/cormac-mccarthy-interview#comment-38128 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/cormac-mccarthy-interview#comment-38128/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/cormac-mccarthy-interview#comment-38119 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/cormac-mccarthy-interview#comment-38119#comments Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:18:05 +0000 Bucko http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/cormac-mccarthy-interview#comment-38119 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/cormac-mccarthy-interview#comment-38119/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/cormac-mccarthy-interview#comment-38106 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/cormac-mccarthy-interview#comment-38106#comments Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:02:32 +0000 maebefunke http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/cormac-mccarthy-interview#comment-38106 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/cormac-mccarthy-interview#comment-38106/feed 0