The (Rare) Cormac McCarthy Interviews 

As I mentioned in my tribute to Cormac McCarthy in Friday’s issue, he was famously private, and turned down most of the interview requests that came his way. But between 1968 and 1980, when he was starting out, he gave at least 10 interviews about his writing to small local papers in Lexington, KY, and east Tennessee, a region where he lived and had friends. After he won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, he decided that he’d rather have his work speak for itself, and rarely broke that rule.

In fact, I was able to find just a handful of interviews that he did after 1980 – not only on his writing, but also on his interests in architecture, science, and math.

Click here.

And here.

And here.