Reading McCarthy
by Scott Yarbrough and Guest Hosts
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- 🇵🇹PT · Books#4710K to 30K
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Episode 65: The End of Something in STELLA MARIS, with Nell Sullivan and Vernon Cisney
Jul 17, 2026
1h 29m 31s
Episode 64: McCarthy and Philosophy
May 11, 2026
40m 51s
Episode 63: A Tribute to Rick Wallach
Apr 8, 2026
47m 38s
Episode 62: Part Two--Can the Panel Redeem THE COUNSELOR?
Mar 26, 2026
1h 22m 09s
Episode 61: Part One of Seeking Guidance for THE COUNSELOR
Dec 16, 2025
1h 07m 01s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7/17/26 | Cormac McCarthyliterature+4 | Nell SullivanVernon Cisney | STELLA MARISTHE PASSENGER | — | Cormac McCarthySTELLA MARIS+5 | — | 1h 29m 31s | ||
| 5/11/26 | philosophyCormac McCarthy+3 | — | American Literature Association | Santa Fe, New Mexico | Cormac McCarthyphilosophy+3 | — | 40m 51s | ||
| 4/8/26 | Cormac McCarthyliterary studies+3 | — | Cormac McCarthy SocietyUniversity of Miami+2 | — | Rick WallachCormac McCarthy Society+3 | — | 47m 38s | ||
| 3/26/26 | film analysisscreenplay discussion+3 | Dr. Russell Hillier | Providence CollegeTHE COUNSELOR | — | The Counselorscreenplay+3 | — | 1h 22m 09s | ||
| 12/16/25 | film analysisscreenplay+3 | — | THE COUNSELOR | — | The CounselorRidley Scott+5 | — | 1h 07m 01s | ||
| 10/13/25 | Cormac McCarthyThe Passenger+3 | Lydia CooperBrent Cline | Seattle UniversityThe Passenger | — | The PassengerCormac McCarthy+4 | — | 1h 56m 23s | ||
| 9/23/25 | screenplaysfilm adaptations+3 | Stacey Peebles | The CounselorCities of the Plain+2 | — | Cormac McCarthyscreenplays+5 | — | 1h 28m 21s | ||
| 6/5/25 | TheaterLiterature+3 | Dianne Luce | Steppenwolf TheaterHBO+1 | — | The Sunset LimitedCormac McCarthy+5 | — | 1h 17m 45s | ||
| 2/12/25 | McCarthy archivesWittliff Collection+3 | Katie Salzmann | The Wittliff CollectionsTexas State University+2 | San Marcos, Texas | McCarthyWittliff Collection+3 | — | 43m 46s | ||
| 1/1/25 | No Country for Old Menneo-liberalism+3 | Brothers Elmore | No Country for Old Men | — | No Country for Old MenBrothers Elmore+3 | — | 56m 23s | ||
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| 11/18/24 | McCarthy's influenceliterature+4 | Ron Rash | Gardner Webb UniversityClemson University+2 | — | Ron RashMcCarthy+4 | — | 42m 23s | ||
| 10/21/24 | Episode 54: Following McCarthy's Tracks with Austin Smith | Send us Fan Mail This episode of READING MCCARTHY welcomes to the podcast for the first time Austin Smith. Austin studied history and literature at the University of Georgia. He has worked as a photographer and a professional adventure photographer, following the art into aviation, mountaineering, and motorcycle racing. He now leads a human resources consulting business in Denver, Colorado. A couple of years ago he hooked up an Airstream fifth wheel RV to his truck and, armed with a loa... | 1h 02m 36s | ||||||
| 8/2/24 | Episode 53: Rambling Down THE ROAD with Bryan Vescio | Send us Fan Mail This 53rd episode of READING MCCARTHY takes a long ramble down THE ROAD, McCarthy’s 2006 Pulitzer Prize winning novel of a father and son enduring life in a harrowing, ashen landscape after some undisclosed apocalypse. For this discussion I’m glad to welcome back guest Dr. Bryan Vescio. Professor and Chair of English at High Point University in North Carolina, Dr. Vescio has previously joined us for discussions on Suttree and Cities of the Plain, among others. He is the autho... | 1h 12m 20s | ||||||
| 6/24/24 | Episode 52: McCarthy and Hemingway | Send us Fan Mail Episode 52 is a round table considering the impact of Ernest Hemingway’s writing on the works of Cormac McCarthy. Joining us for this discussion are Dr. Olivia Carr Edenfield, Professor of English at Georgia Southern University. She is a founding member of the Society for the Study of the American Short Story and Director of the American Literature Association. She has recently published a defense of the mother in The Road in the CMJ. &nbs... | 1h 38m 07s | ||||||
| 5/4/24 | Episode 51: Teaching McCarthy Round Table | Send us Fan Mail Although the fact often goes unacknowledged, it is a truth that sometimes an author’s residence within and endurance in the canon is a result of how that author is perceived and taught in the academy. Most literary scholars are also professors and teachers. For this episode of Reading McCarthy I round up some of the usual suspects for a panel discussion upon teaching the works of McCarthy to students. The guests include Stacey Peebles, Chair of the English p... | 1h 27m 44s | ||||||
| 4/5/24 | Episode 50: Barreling through No Country for Old Men with Rick Wallach | Send us Fan Mail The guest for our 50th episode is the OG himself, the redoubtable RICK WALLACH, who joins us for a rousing discussion of No Country for Old Men. Somehow both Batman and Godzilla are referenced as we consider both the novel and the Coen Bros. film. Rick Wallach has recently retired from teaching English at the University of Miami. He is a founder of the Cormac McCarthy society, the senior and primary editor of the Cormac McCarthy Society casebook series, and ... | 1h 10m 02s | ||||||
| 1/16/24 | Episode 49: a Filibuster Panel on the BORDER TRILOGY | Send us Fan Mail In this episode we head across the border one more time for a consideration of the Border Trilogy as a whole. How does knowing how the story begins and ends change how we read any of the different parts? My guests on this filibuster over the border include Dr. Nell Sullivan, a Kentuckian who earned her BA in English from Vanderbilt University and earned her PhD from Rice University. She is currently Professor of English at University of Houston-Downtown, whe... | 1h 16m 45s | ||||||
| 12/16/23 | Episode 48: Tearing Down the Walls of THE STONEMASON with Nick Monk | Send us Fan Mail The guest for this episode is Dr. Nick Monk, who joins me for a consideration of perhaps McCarthy’s most idiosyncratic work. The 90s were an exciting time for McCarthy fans. In 92 he published the award winning All the Pretty Horses, followed two years later by the next installment in the Border Trilogy, The Crossing. Before he would go on to close out the trilogy in 98, however, in 1995 he also published a strange and fascinating play, The Stonemason. The play is... | 1h 03m 05s | ||||||
| 11/14/23 | Episode 47: McCarthy and Disability with Brent Cline | Send us Fan Mail Episode 47 of READING MCCARTHY considers the author’s references to and uses of disability in its many forms. My guest DR BRENT CLINE. He has published articles and chapters involving disability on Walker Percy, James Agee, and Daniel Keyes. His review of The Passenger/Stella Maris was published with The University Bookman. He teaches a seminar on McCarthy every two years. As always, readers should beware: there be spoilers here. Thanks to Thomas Frye, who c... | 1h 09m 50s | ||||||
| 10/3/23 | Episode 46: Crossing the CITIES OF THE PLAIN with Bryan Vescio | Send us Fan Mail In this episode we ride to the end of the road in the last episode of the Border Trilogy, CITIES ON THE PLAIN. My guest for this foray is Dr. Bryan Vescio, Professor and Chair of English at High Point University in North Carolina. A guest on former episodes on faith and Suttree, Dr. Vescio is the author of the 2014 book Reconstruction in Literary Studies: An Informalist Approach, as well as numerous articles on American authors including Mark Twain, William Faulkn... | 1h 05m 58s | ||||||
| 9/11/23 | Episode 45: Tribute to McCarthy Part 3 | Send us Fan Mail This is our final of 3 tribute episodes in the wake of Cormac McCarthy's passing this past June. Guests on this final tribute episode include: Dr. Steven Frye, professor and chair of English at California State University in Bakersfield. Steve has just stepped down as President of the Cormac McCarthy Society. He is the author of Understanding Cormac McCarthy (Univ. of South Carolina Press) and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Cormac McCarthy, and Cambrid... | 1h 33m 02s | ||||||
| 8/16/23 | Episode 44: Tribute to Cormac, part the second. | Send us Fan Mail In the wake of Cormac McCarthy's passing on June 13, 2023, a number of excellent tributes and discussion pieces were published. In this second of three tribute episode, we've asked for permission for the authors to read some of those tributes to McCarthy here on the podcast and we have also solicited a couple of others. The guests this episode include: Stacey Peebles, Chair of the English program, Director of Film Studies, and the Marlene and David Gr... | 1h 01m 14s | ||||||
| 7/29/23 | Episode 43: Tribute to McCarthy, Part the First | Send us Fan Mail On June 13, 2023, we lost a literary giant. Cormac McCarthy, the greatest writer of our time (in this podcast's completely unbiased opinion) passed away in Santa Fe, New Mexico, his home these past couple of decades. E-mails and queries started pouring in, mostly asking, "are you going to do a special tribute podcast? And the answer to that, is yes. Episode 43 is the first of 3 planned tribute episodes to McCarthy. Joining us for this first panel... | 1h 37m 51s | ||||||
| 6/19/23 | Episode 42: Fly them, Cormac. 16 Responses to "What is your favorite McCarthy novel, and why?" | Send us Fan Mail Like the rest of the world I learned this past Tuesday, June 13th, that Cormac McCarthy had passed away at the age of 89. This episode had already been recorded, but I thought it would still serve as an initial and quick response to the need to offer a tribute: it's a compilation of the responses to the question What's your favorite McCarthy novel, and why? from the podcast's first 16 guests. The guests responding to the "favorite book and why" question this episo... | 1h 17m 59s | ||||||
| 5/31/23 | Episode 41: Over the Border Again with the Bros. Elmore: Part 2 on THE CROSSING | Send us Fan Mail Episode 41 is our second excursion over the border as the Brothers Elmore and I finish our conversation about THE CROSSING. Returning as the guests are twin scholars Jonathan and Rick Elmore. That's right, twins. Jonathan Elmore is Associate Professor of English at Savannah State University and the Managing Editor of Watchung Review.. He is the editor of Fiction and the Sixth Mass Extinction: Narrative in an Era of Loss (Lexington) and co-author of An Introd... | 38m 40s | ||||||
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Chart history for Reading McCarthy
Peaked at #47 in PT, currently #47 in PT.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
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| PT | — | #47 | #47 | — |
| PT | — | #94 | #94 | — |
| Ireland | — | #161 | #161 | — |
Chart Positions
3 placements across 2 markets.
Chart Positions
3 placements across 2 markets.