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Showing posts with label Cormac McCarthy. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Cormac McCarthy. Show all posts

Saturday, 16 August 2025

Why the Literary western endures — and what’s driving Lonesome Dove’s TikTok resurgence

There’s something quietly electric about Lonesome Dove’s return in the BookTok universe: the dust-swept epics and tender, layered characte...

Monday, 16 June 2025

The Road: A devastating vision, brought beautifully to screen

TikTok got me thinking about great book-to-screen adaptations. There are plenty of good and bad out there. For me, Cormac McCarthy’s The Roa...

Wednesday, 28 May 2025

What is the Great American Novel – and does it still matter?

One of the questions I’m endlessly fascinated by when it comes to literature is The Great American Novel. It is so evocative, and carries su...

Tuesday, 4 March 2025

Whatever happened to Donna Tartt?

I found a box of books in the attic yesterday, and a signed copy of Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch was buried there. I added it to the bookshel...

Thursday, 20 February 2025

Six novels that demonstrate why “show, don’t tell” is worth getting right

When I wrote about “The art of showing, not telling” recently, I realised how many great examples of this technique exist in literature. So...

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