Aiming High
Cormac McCarthy has made it. Finally! Success! A reputation for harsh, beautiful writing about the American West! Cash money! Now, I hear what you’re saying. Sure, he’s already won a Guggenheim and a MacArthur grant. Oprah loves him. And yes, I suppose he did win the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction yesterday, and I’m sure that was a very touching moment for him. But I think we all know the real high point of McCarthy’s career: the day he received an IMDB entry of his very own.
According to the Database on High, only one of McCarthy’s eleven novels and two plays has been adapted to film so far: 2000’s All the Pretty Horses, starring Matt Damon and improbably directed by Billy Bob Thornton. But that’s about to change–Blood Meridian and No Country for Old Men (directed by the Coen brothers!) are slated for the big screen in the next two years.
Yes, McCarthy’s time has come: his time for fame, fortune, and worldwide readership. Now if only he could get a picture on his profile.
October 7th, 2008 at 9:52 am
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