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The first major biography of Cormac McCarthy with exclusive interviews from Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tracey Daugherty. With precision and grace, Daugherty recounts the story of one of America’s greatest novelists, unveiling the man behind the myth.
“There is something uncanny about Scott’s swerve from literary fiction, which she had been writing, into serialized genre fiction, given the history of the ‘everything store’ with which her life and her immense fortune are so intimately bound.” Ronda Feng considers MacKenzie Scott’s serialized novel and the shadow of Amazon. | The New Yorker
Ken Chen on Dictee at 40: “Rather than reading Dictee as a riddle to be solved, we must look for its pleasures, the foremost of which is love.” | The Yale Review
Set in 1991, Huckleberry Jim follows two actors—Axel Emerson, a twenty-two-year-old white actor fresh out of conservatory, and Moses Morton, a fifty-five-year-old Black actor with a lifetime of stages behind him—on a children's tour of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. As the two-man company performs Twain's text to American children in the year of Anita Hill, Rodney King's arrest, and the height of the culture wars, the road between them becomes a slow reckoning with race, performance, fatherhood, and what it costs to play another man's part.
