Novelist Cormac McCarthy's brilliant and challenging work demands deep engagement from his readers. In Cormac McCarthy's House, author, painter, photographer, and actor-director Peter Josyph draws on
""Peter Joseph's articles on McCarthy are written in a style that is fluent, erudite, engaging, and imbued with a sophisticated sense of irony and good humor; indeed, they are as hybrid in nature as t
What One Man Said to Another is a series of conversations between friends. It is also a sparkling and profoundly insightful reminiscence of Richard Selzer's life as a surgeon and writer of such works
In this memoir (reprint, 1992), Selzer, a former surgeon, professor at Yale School of Medicine, and writer of essays and fiction, recounts his childhood in Troy, New York, a predominantly Irish town f
The Wounded River takes the reader back more than 130 years to reveal a marvelous, first-hand account of nineteenth-century warfare. In the process, the work cuts the legends and mythology that have c
