Episode 8: The Cormac McCarthy Journal with Stacey Peebles

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READING MCCARTHY is a podcast devoted to the consideration and discussion of the works of one of our greatest American writers, Cormac McCarthy.  Stacey Peebles joins the podcast for this episode.  Dr. Peebles is Chair of the English program, Director of Film Studies, and the Marlene and David Grissom Professor of Humanities at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky.  She is the author of Welcome to the Suck: Narrating the American Soldier's Experience in Iraq (published in 2011) and Cormac McCarthy and Performance: Page, Stage, Screen (published 2017).  She is editor of the collection Violence in Literature and, with Ben West, is co-editor of the volume Approaches to Teaching the Works of Cormac McCarthy, which is forthcoming this year.  She has published widely on the representation of contemporary war and on McCarthy, and has been editor of the Cormac McCarthy Journal since 2010.  

Thanks to Thomas Frye, who composed, performed, and produced the music for READING MCCARTHY.  Music for today includes: Intro: “World to Come,” “ “Toadvine” (10:47), “Much Like Yourself” (23:45); “Running with Wolves” (32:16); Outro: “Blues for Blevins.”

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