A bombshell landed on the literary world last year after the death of Cormac McCarthy, the man who had been, arguably, America’s greatest living novelist. The shock was not McCarthy’s passing (he was 89), but a Vanity Fair article by Vincenzo Barney that broke news of a nearly fifty-year relationship with a woman named Augusta … Continue reading While his characters were getting better (a cautionary tale)→| joshuamcnall.com
The jaguar was the most feared – and revered – animal in ancient Mesoamerica. Members of pre-Columbian societies like the Maya and Aztec coexisted with jaguars in the jungles, bearing witness to their size, cunning, and aggression and incorporating them into their mythologies. Most of these cultures depicted the big cat in its natural form […]| The History Bandits
Paolo Perantoni, Verona - Consiglio di lettura di Figlio di Dio di C. McCarthy, romanzo dove si intravede la violenza che lo renderà famoso.| Parentesi Storiche