Today would have been the novelist Cormac McCarthy's ninetieth birthday. McCarthy died last month and that drew a close to the work of one of America's finest writers and quite possibly the finest. As the literary critic Harold Bloom expounded upon numerous times, McCarthy was the notable successor to Melville and Faulkner and succeeded in having litera…
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