Friday, May 08, 2009
Cormac McCarthy Papers Opening SoonKatie Salzmann, lead archivist at the Southwestern Writers Collection at Texas State University at San Marcos, informs us that while construction on the Witliff Collections continues, the Cormac McCarthy Papers should be opened for research in mid-May.
Access to the papers, at this point, is by appointment only.
We'll post more details as we have them, but for now we include, for your reading pleasure, the complete finding aid for the papers [PDF].
Among the collection's notable items is an unfinished novel called The Passenger.
Updated: Katie Salzmann has provided us with a revised finding aid; I have updated the file I linked to above.
Also, it's accesible via:
http://alkek.library.txstate.edu/swwc/archives/writers/cormac.htm
She also informs me of the Research Appointment Request Form, which is at:
http://www.library.txstate.edu/about/departments/swwc/research-req-form.html
Labels: Cormac McCarthy Papers, Texas State University, The Passenger, Witliff Collections
posted by mp
5/08/2009
Wednesday, February 04, 2009
National Portrait Gallery Acquires McCarthy PortraitAs reported on their blog, facetoface, the National Portrait Gallery has acquired a portrait of Cormac McCarthy by artist Andrew Tift.
Marty Priola, the Society's Webmaster and Assistant Secretary, spoke with the National Portrait Gallery's Warren Perry and offered his thoughts on McCarthy's place in the canon. Read the announcement and interview.
The painting, from 2004, is acrylic on canvas; it is currently on view in the New Acquisitions Gallery of the National Portrait Gallery.
Labels: National Portrait Gallery, painting, Smithsonian
posted by mp
2/04/2009
Conference Information Posted
Labels: conferences
posted by mp
2/04/2009
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Bookshop Updates! More Coming SoonWe've just added two new items to the Bookshop: John Cant's Cormac McCarthy and the Myth of American Exceptionalism, and Shane Schimpf's newly revised Reader's Guide to Blood Meridian. We also regret to inform you that Myth, Legend, Dust has gone out of print for the time being; it will, however, be replaced soon with a new, expanded edition. Visit the Bookshop to order or to read more about the new titles; click the link at left.
Society members have just received a new edition of the Cormac McCarthy Newsletter; for those of you not in the Society, information contained therein about our fall conference in San Marcos and about next year's international conference in Stratford Upon Avon will be posted here shortly. For more about the Society, click the Society or Join links to your left.
posted by mp
6/19/2008
Saturday, April 05, 2008
Updates in ProgressWe're in the process of updating some things around here. You'll shortly see new precis for No Country for Old Men, The Road, and The Sunset Limited.
We've already added a few items to the Bookshop, both are items that were formerly available and never made the transition to the new Bookshop system. The famed Judge Holden t-shirt from the 199 San Antonio Conference and Peter Josyph's poster from the 1998 El Paso conference are once again available. Please remember that all proceeds from sales of these items go directly towards Society activities. We urge you to act soon because supplies, as they say, are limited.
Incidentally, we appear to be having some sort of email trouble. There's a change in the works there, too. But at the moment, we cannot receive any email to any of the cormacmcarthy.com accounts.
posted by mp
4/05/2008
Thursday, April 03, 2008
Updates PendingFor the many of you who have inquired about updates to the site, check the Works page. We expect to have summaries of the recent works available soon; also note that we've updated the link there to provide more information about the Cormac McCarthy Collection at the University of Texas San Marcos.
Also, we're going to begin adding updated dates to the more scholarly pages on the site as they're modified. Many of the pages, such as the summaries of older works, change only rarely, so these dates will not appear consistently throughout the site. If a page on this site does not contain an updated date at the bottom, assume that it has not been changed since before April 3, 2008. Not all pages will display the updated stamp; there's no need for it on the Bookshop pages, for example. Forum posts are already dated, as are these blog entries on the main page.
Labels: site stuff
posted by mp
4/03/2008
Friday, July 20, 2007
Happy BirthdayToday, July 20, is Cormac McCarthy's 74th birthday.
Happy Birthday, Mr. McCarthy. Best wishes.
posted by mp
7/20/2007
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