One of my favorite things about writing is the discoveries, and I find the longer form of the novel forces you to discover a lot. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Cormac McCarthy
BLOOMERS AT LARGE: At a Theater Near You
by Cara Dempsey
Despite the sometimes-problematic nature of the book-to-film adaptation, there are a few coming up this year that we we’re excited about.. Continue reading
The Carpentry of Words: Malcolm Brooks and the Road to Painted Horses
The thing that tipped me off to it was this rinky-dink little historical society pamphlet from 1962 in which they were trying to get volunteers in Wyoming to go work on some of these water reclamation archeological surveys, and they mention River Basin Surveys in conjunction with Bighorn Canyon. I thought, “Okay, that has to be a real thing.” Continue reading
Mark-Making in the West: Malcolm Brooks’s Painted Horses
by Lisa Peet
What is a Western today if not its iconography?… We have exhausted the old conflicts of cowboys against Indians, or townspeople clashing with range riders. There are no longer fixed points in the genre except perhaps for this: a Western is the light, the landscape, the beasts that run through it. Continue reading
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