Speaking as another son of a Tennessee industry lawyer a country music lawyer; it was TVA power that helped turn Nashville into a radio and recording mecca I think the prime darkness at the heart of Cormac McCarthy’s fiction, always precariously perched over oblivion, began with his father, a fixer behind the laboratory that powered the possibility of human extinction.
With the passing of alumnus Cormac McCarty in June 2023, English professor Bill Hardwig discusses how his homages to Knoxville and the region play a key role in his legacy
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Cormac McCarthy, the celebrated author known for eloquent meditations on the darkness of the human spirit in books such as 'The Road' and 'No Country for Old Men,' died of natural causes June 13, 2023, in Santa Fe, N.M. He was 89.
With mordant wit and stark description, the literary great wove a tapestry of anger, humour, decency and bad behaviour – and of the perpetual terror of man