Episode 60: Riding Shotgun on THE PASSENGER with Lydia Cooper and Brent Cline

From Reading McCarthy by Scott Yarbrough and Guest Hosts

October 13, 2025 · 1h 56m · Season 5 · Episode 60

About this episode

The episode features a detailed discussion of Cormac McCarthy's novel The Passenger with guests Lydia Cooper and Brent Cline.

For the podcast's 60th episode we are finally able to develop a lengthy and thorough discussion of The Passenger, McCarthy's penultimate novel from 2022. I'm joined by two returning guests of the podcast: Dr. Lydia Cooper is a professor of American literature and director of the core curriculum at Seattle University. Her specializations include Native American literature, Western and southwestern literature, and gender studies, and of course Cormac McCarthy. Her most recent book is Corm...

People in this episode

Host: Scott Yarbrough

Guests: Lydia Cooper, Brent Cline

Topics covered

Cormac McCarthy
The Passenger
American literature
gender studies
Native American literature

Keywords

The Passenger
Cormac McCarthy
American literature
gender studies
Lydia Cooper
Brent Cline

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Seattle University

Books & works: The Passenger