Brian Lindenmuth of Spinetingler Magazine asked me not too long ago to review a story in an anthology entitled On Dangerous Ground: Stories of Western Noir for another of their epic review projects. And I tried really hard. But instead … Continue reading
I’ve got a running theory about Herman Melville’s Confidence Man and American frontiersmen like Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, Buffalo Bill, etc., that also feeds into Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian. At it’s core, it’s not very complicated. It begins with a … Continue reading
(The beginning of some notes on Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian as promised here. ) This one takes a little patience, but one of the most fruitful ways to track the judge’s representation of Indians is tease out the historical representations of Indians … Continue reading
I’ve been thinking lately about Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian. I criticized Harold Bloom a while back for underplaying the anticolonial bent of the book, and also commented on the misguided focus on the Bible and William Faulkner as primary influences on the novel. That’s … Continue reading
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