Editor’s Picks: Remembering Cormac McCarthy

Over a nearly 60-year career, McCarthy – hailed by the late literary critic Howard Bloom as the “true heir” of Herman Melville and William Faulkner – wrote a dozen novels, many of them critically celebrated if not commercial hits, though he would eventually achieve both.

McCarthy wrote epic novels, and his prose could be thornily intimidating. Here’s where to start with his work.

Toward the end of his life, Cormac McCarthy was striking out in new artistic directions.

C.J. McCarthy Jr.’s short story as published in The Phoenix’s fall 1959 issue.

Stephen King and others honor author Cormac McCarthy, who died of natural causes on Tuesday at age 89.

The Coens and Ridley Scott are among the directors who took big swings at the novelist’s work. The distinctive writer left his mark on the big screen.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author has done vanishingly few interviews during the course of his career. In these early ones, some newly uncovered, he is less guarded.

In his first television interview ever, Cormac McCarthy sits down with Oprah at the Santa Fe Institute to talk about his theories on writing.

It only took two Arizona high school students to get answers from the legendarily reclusive author.