Whatever McCarthy's motivation for agreeing to be on the show, it isn't money, say longtime observers of McCarthy's work. He turns down speeches, awards, teaching gigs and other familiar trappings of the contemporary writer's life, preferring to live in the desert Southwest and do his work. Like literary recluses such as J.D. Salinger and Thomas Pynchon, McCarthy is more familiar through his absence than his presence.
Read the whole article here.
I also found this longer, more definitive profile of McCarthy from when he gave a rare interview to the New York Times in 1992. You can find it via the previous link or on the NYT's Cormac McCarthy page here.
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I just read the coolest book. In it, Marilyn comes back to life--in a manner of speaking. It's a futuristic thriller called Better Than Chocolate (by Bruce Golden). In it, a "celebudroid" is created to look and act like MM, and then programmed with all her films, all known facts about her. It IS Marilyn, but she begins to grow as a person in this new identity, so she becomes more than just the MM known to history. This celebudroid ends up partnering with a San Francisco police inspector to save mankind from a vast conspiracy. It's fun, it's funny, and it's engaging. You should check it out.
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