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This episode discusses Cormac McCarthy's last novel, STELLA MARIS, and its themes through interviews with guests Nell Sullivan and Vernon Cisney.

Send us Fan Mail With this episode, READING MCCARTHY has discussed every novel published by Cormac McCarthy. Published in early December of 2022, STELLA MARIS was the last novel published by McCarthy in his lifetime. The second book in a pair of sibling novels about the Westerns, STELLA MARIS consists of a series of interviews between the troubled genius Alicia Western and a research psychiatrist. Alicia first appears in THE PASSENGER, but it is in this novel that the spotlight is...

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Host: Scott Yarbrough

Guests: Nell Sullivan, Vernon Cisney

Topics covered

• Cormac McCarthy
• literature
• novels
• interviews
• sibling novels
• psychology

Keywords

• Cormac McCarthy
• STELLA MARIS
• Alicia Western
• THE PASSENGER
• literary analysis
• interviews
• psychology

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Books & works: STELLA MARIS, THE PASSENGER

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