Appreciation: How Cormac McCarthy influenced a generation - Los Angeles Times (www.latimes.com)
For the entirety of my writing life, Cormac McCarthy has been a mountain. Some of the novelists of my generation found the mountain beautiful; others found it oppressive. But virtually all of us, whatever our position or attitude, existed in its shade....
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