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left: Vintage International (US), cover design by Susan Mitchell (1993).
right: Picador (UK) reprint (2008).
After the Oscars success of No Country for Old Men it’s understandable that Cormac McCarthy’s publishers would want to reprint all his works. His books still appear under the Picador imprint in the UK and they’ve been reissued recently in […]

A shot rang out…
| Cormac McCarthy is “simply the greatest living novelist writing in English” says Jason Cowley. Absolutely.

Exploiting Sound, Exploring Silence
| Sound design for the Coen Brothers.

‘We’ve killed a lot of animals’
| The Coens again, discussing That Film.

CM, JC & EC photographed by Eric Ogden.
First an Oprah interview, now a feature in TIME; the famously reclusive Cormac McCarthy is almost becoming gregarious. The TIME piece is only a short sit-down between CM and the Coen Brothers which serves to promote the forthcoming film of No Country for Old Men but it’s still […]

A very young-looking Cormac McCarthy (he was 35) in a New York Times book ad from 1968. There are more ads from the paper’s recent past here.
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• Cormac McCarthy book covers

Cormac wins another prize
The Road is awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

We’ve got a trailer and website for the new Coen Bros. film at last. Don’t panic, I won’t bore you to death over this one. Good news is it looks like a very faithful adaptation.
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• No Country for Old Men

Cormac McCarthy’s appearance on Oprah’s Book Club—his first television appearance ever—was screened last week. You can watch it online for free on her site although you need to register first. The interview is presented in chunks and only lasts for about twenty minutes but it was worthwhile for all that, even if it is chopped […]

One of the posters for the new Coen Brothers’ film has finally surfaced and the design is pretty similar to the original book jacket by Chip Kidd (later spoiled with poor type layout in the UK edition). The book cover looks better but we’ll probably see some variations on the poster design anyway. I’m reading […]