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Reading McCarthy

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Reading McCarthy

Scott Yarbrough and Guest Hosts

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READING MCCARTHY is a podcast devoted to the consideration and discussion of the works of one of our greatest American writers, Cormac McCarthy. Each episode will call upon different well-known Cormackian readers and scholars to help us explore different works and various essential aspects of McCarthy’s writing.(Note these episodes try to offer accessible literary criticism and may contain spoilers from different McCarthy works.)
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Great American Novel

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Great American Novel

Scott Yarbrough and Kirk Curnutt

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Few literary terms are more hotly debated, discounted, or derided than the "Great American Novel." But while critics routinely dismiss the phrase as at best hype and as at worst exclusionary, the belief that a national literature commensurate with both the scope and the contradictions of being American persists. In this podcast Scott Yarbrough and Kirk Curnutt examine totemic works such as Herman Melville's Moby-Dick and Toni Morrison's Beloved that have been labeled GANs, exploring their th ...
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A weekly podcast by Ruben Dua, the founder of Dubb. Dubb is the video communication platform for sales, marketing, support and more. Get a free trial at dubb.com and scale with actionable videos. Subscribe to this podcast for tips and tricks on growing a business and long-form interviews with fascinating people in sales, marketing and beyond.
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In this podcast, we will discuss The top 3 reasons why people come to me to solve:-How do I shift into selling ultra high-end ($25K, $50K, $100K+) packages?-How do I find ultra-high-paying clients?-I am at the center of my business. I can't "do more to make more." How do I scale and regain my time freedom?Want to create live streams like this? Chec…
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In this podcast, Ruben Dua, CEO of Dubb, meets with Vince Warnock to discuss how becoming an author can 3x your earnings. #linkedin #smallbusiness #publishing #booklaunch #sales #salestips #keynote #tedx #chasingtheinsights #ceo --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/connection-loop-dubb/message…
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Episode 40 is a long ride through rough country as we dig into The CROSSING, McCarthy's masterful middle volume in the Border Trilogy. My guests today are twin scholars Jonathan and Rick Elmore. That's right, twins. Jonathan Elmore is Associate Professor of English at Savannah State University and the Managing Editor of Watchung Review.. He is the …
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David Jenyns, the founder of one of Australia's most trusted digital agencies, Melbourne SEO Services, made a name for himself by successfully running the business for over a decade. However, he eventually found himself at a crossroads, feeling trapped by the business's reliance on his presence and yearning to be present for his kids’ childhoods. M…
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1. First contact, face to my name one-on-one video. Stands out from the crowd of so many other agents available to the Buyer. I include a video text in my auto-reply for inbound inquiries.2. Landing pages for my listings consist of video walkthroughs, 3D tour links, disclosure links, success stories links, and schedule a-showing links.3. Follow-up …
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Meet Robin Alex, a visionary co-founder who is reshaping the business landscape with HighLevel. With a deep-rooted passion for empowering entrepreneurs and a keen eye for technological advancements, Robin has become a driving force in the industry. In this episode, we dive deep into the impact of automation across various business domains. From cus…
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Cormac still types his novels on an Olivetti typewriter and your host can't figure out Facebook. So for Episode 39 we bring in some expert help in the form of a lively discussion with Redditor supreme Joe Parslow. He has moderated the Cormac McCarthy subreddit for over a decade and has seen it grow from its first post in April 2012 to its current p…
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Listen to this episode of the Connection Loop podcast with Scott Brandley, a Co-Founder of Trust Brands, as he talks about building trust and social proof through customer ratings and reviews, reputation management, and online security. Connection Loop Podcast features tips and tricks for growing a business and long-form interviews with fascinating…
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In Great American Novel Podcast Episode 20, your fearless (or is it feckless) hosts find themselves in the damp swamps and thick scrublands of north central Florida in the post-Reconstruction era as we struggle to survive with the settlers of the brush country in Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' Pulitzer Prize winning 1938 novel, The Yearling. We discuss …
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Today's guest is George Berridge. George began academic life as a journalist but like Hank Williams saw the light and also began digging deeply into American Literature. He's now the American Literature editor of the Times Literary Supplement. He lives and works in London. His exceptional review of THE PASSENGER and STELLA MARIS was published in Oc…
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Season three kicks off with a fiftieth anniversary celebration of Thomas Pynchon's postmodernist whirl-a-gig Gravity's Rainbow. Originally published on February 28, 1973, this encyclopedic inquiry into the systematicity of existence, power, and technology was just this week described by Esquire as "one of the weirdest, richest, most frustrating, in…
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Frequent guests Steven Frye and Stacey Peebles join me for another roundup of All the Pretty Horses, the National Book Award winning novel which finally forced the literary world to sit up and take notice of McCarthy. We climb on and hold tight for this ride through this incredible novel. Stacey Peebles is Chair of the English program, Director of …
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Listen to this episode of the Connection Loop podcast with marketing leader, Dr. Robin Kiera, talks about #sales, #socialselling, #digitalselling, #salesleadership, and #saleseffectiveness Connection Loop Podcast features tips and tricks for growing a business and long-form interviews with fascinating people in marketing and beyond. Learn more at h…
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Like Cormac McCarthy, Wes Morgan was born in the North—Albany, New York rather than Rhode Island—but came south at the age of 4. Wes grew up in Atlanta and earned BS degrees in Physics and Applied Psychology at Georgia Tech. In 1962 Wes moved to Knoxville and began working on his doctorate in psychology. He went on to work as a staff psychologist a…
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In Great American Novel Podcast Episode 18, our final Season 2 episode, we plunge ourselves into New Orleans of the fin de siècle in Kate Chopin's 1899 novel The Awakening. Edna Pontellier wrestles with a life she never chose, beset by a bore of a husband, a flimsy excuse for a lover, and a patriarchal society which has tried to restrain her choice…
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Episode 35 takes a first ride across the border with the novel that would elevate McCarthy's profile and career. All the Pretty Horses won McCarthy the National Book Award following its publication in 1992 and was McCarthy's first best-selling novel. Our guest for this episode is Dr. Allen Josephs. A Hemingway scholar as well as a Cormackian, Allen…
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Saul Bellow's 1953 breakthrough novel The Adventures of Augie March is perhaps, of all the great American novels we've discussed, the one whose cultural imprint has faded the most. Even among Bellow fans this freewheeling exploration of American identity tends to take a backseat to subsequent classics such as Herzog (1964) and Humboldt’s Gift (1975…
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Some six weeks or so after the publication of McCarthy's first novel in 16 years, The Passenger, we have its slim companion volume, the little sister, if you will, Stella Maris. In this brief review, I again forego the normal conversation format to offer a quick first-take review of the newest McCarthy novel, one that many presume will be the last …
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Your best marketing isn’t you paying for all of your brand’s ads. It’s when your customers tell others you’re who they’re doing business with—word of mouth. And the only way to make that happen is to create an experience that makes them want to talk about you. This is sage advice offered by Shep Hyken. Shep is a customer service and experience expe…
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This episode is a thorough discussion of McCarthy's use of the animal kingdom in his works. My guest in this episode is Wallis Sanborn, Chair of the Department of English, Mass Communication, and Drama, and Graduate Program Head of the Master of Arts-Master of Fine Arts in Literature, Creative Writing, and Social Justice Program at Our Lady of the …
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From being a digital strategist since the early days of digital marketing to teaching at UCLA, Shane Barker has become a true powerhouse in the industry. Today, he owns four thriving businesses—shanebarker.com, Clout Consulting, TraceFuse, and Selletek—and hosts his own podcast. In this episode, you’ll hear the story of how Shane’s website, shaneba…
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The Great American Novel podcast is an ongoing discussion about the novels we hold up as significant achievements in our American literary culture. Additionally, we sometimes suggest novels who should break into the sometimes problematical canon and at other times we’ll suggest books which can be dropped from such lofty consideration. Your hosts ar…
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After a sixteen year wait, we finally have a new novel by Cormac McCarthy grasped in our greedy little podcasting clutches. In this episode of the podcast, we break with form a bit. There's no guest discussion this episode; instead we offer a quick review of THE PASSENGER. Is it completely correct to call it McCarthy's "new novel" since we know he'…
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This episode delves again into McCarthy's roots as we consider his intersections with Irish literature. The guest in this episode is Tennessean by birth and now fully Texified, Richard R. Russell is Professor of English and director of graduate programs at Baylor University. He earned an M Phil at the University of Glasgow and his MA and PhD from t…
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John's Steinbeck's 1939 tale of an "Oakie" family who crosses Route 66 seeking to escape the Dust Bowl only to discover California isn't the paradise it's been advertised as is one of the most iconic Great American Novels in our literary history. Its impact was profound and immediate: rarely has a novel been so viciously denounced simply for promot…
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Reena Friedman Watts is a business coach, podcast host, television producer, content creator, and the founder of a full-service production house called MegaWatts Productions. She fulfills these entrepreneurial roles all while being a mother to her four kids. She’s what you would call a mompreneur. And an amazing one at that. In this episode of Conn…
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The second part of our wonderful panel discussion of Cormac McCarthy’s masterful and shattering novel Blood Meridian. Our returning guests include: Steve Frye, who is professor and chair of English at California State University, Bakersfield and President of the Cormac McCarthy Society. He is the author of Understanding Cormac McCarthy (Univ. of So…
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Attracting your target audience is no easy task. Even offering the best product or service in the market isn’t enough to guarantee loyal advocates of your brand. There’s so much noise all around, and if we were to cut through it, we’re going to have to convey a sound that’s music to people’s ears. Brought together by their shared passion for music,…
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Three returning guests join us for this first part of our interesting and engaging discussion of Cormac McCarthy’s magnum opus Blood Meridian. Steve Frye is professor and chair of English at California State University, Bakersfield and President of the Cormac McCarthy Society. He is the author of Understanding Cormac McCarthy (Univ. of South Caroli…
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Being in the sales industry, you’ve probably had your fair share of rejections and difficulties. Inevitably, it becomes tough to maintain a positive attitude — let alone a positive mindset. And without the right mindset, performance and well-being can be negatively affected. In this episode of Connection Loop, hosted by Dubb founder Ruben Dua and H…
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As Jason Duncan earned his master’s in education in 2007, he fell in love with teaching and pursued it as a career. Unfortunately, due to the Great Recession, he soon found himself unemployed. Despite not having a solid entrepreneurial vision, he started a business. Jason became an “accidental” entrepreneur, compelled by the sheer need to make ends…
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Episode 28 brings back previous guest Nell Sullivan to discuss a thorny subject: McCarthy’s women characters, with digressions into the ways the author tiptoes through the landscape of homosocial desire. Nell Sullivan earned a BA in English from Vanderbilt University and earned her PhD in English from Rice University. She is currently Professor of …
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The 14th episode is a ride into the evening redness in the west as your hosts consider one of the more notorious books on our short list: Cormac McCarthy’s epic subversive western, BLOOD MERIDIAN, or, The Evening Redness in the West. This 1985 tome of McCarthy’s has engaged constant discussion and speculation due to the high poetry of its language …
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Episode 27 of READING MCCARTHY is a thorough consideration of Race in the Works of Cormac McCarthy. The guest for this thoughtful and engaging discussion is Lydia Cooper; Dr. Cooper is a professor of American literature at Creighton University. Her specializations include Native American literature, Western and Southwestern literature, gender studi…
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Willa Cather's most famous novel was published only two months before the Armistice ended the bloodshed of the Great War, and in its powerfully imagistic portrait of Midwestern homesteading, it offered readers an emotional connection to the nation's founding myth of pioneer fortitude. Yet My Ántonia wasn't just a story about pilgrims' progress acro…
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Everything is topsy-turvy for this episode as returning guest Peter Josyph seizes control of the station and turns the tables on your regular host Scott Yarbrough, interviewing him. Regular host Scott Yarbrough is the co-author of A Practical Introduction to Literary Study, co-editor with Rick Wallach of the two volume Carrying the Fire casebook co…
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Sales is no easy job. Reaching out to prospects about your product, convincing them of its merit, and turning them into actual buying customers can be tough. There’s no denying that challenges in sales are very much real. But so are the excuses salespeople make up for falling short of sales targets. Sometimes, we are the source of our own problems.…
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This episode of the Connection Loop podcast features Lavie Popack, the CEO of Overpass. He and Ruben Dua, CEO and Founder of Dubb, discuss the recipe for a successful remote sales team. Listen to more episodes here (dubb.com/cl-podcast). The story continues on dubb.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/connection…
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Our returning guest for READING MCCARTHY is Stacey Peebles. On this 25th episode of the podcast we venture out into the Darkening World to Come and Ride into the Evening Redness in the West. Yes, that’s right—this is our first full-length consideration of McCarthy’s masterpiece, Blood Meridian. Dr. Peebles is Chair of the English program, Director …
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The Great American Novel podcast is an ongoing discussion about the novels we hold up as significant achievements in our American literary culture. Additionally, we sometimes suggest novels who should break into the sometimes problematical canon and at other times we’ll suggest books which can be dropped from such lofty consideration. Your hosts ar…
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The guest for Episode 24 of READING MCCARTHY needs no introduction to any member of the Cormac McCarthy Society, visitors to the CormacMccarthy.com forums, or readers of McCarthy Criticism. One of the founders of the Cormac McCarthy society, Rick Wallach survived a degree in theology and years teaching English in Miami, Florida, and is a founding m…
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Our eleventh episode explores the most recent novel on our list of celebrated Great American Novels, Marilynne Robinson's 2004 Pulitzer Prize-winning exploration of Christian humanism, GILEAD. Set in a fictional small Iowa town in 1956, this deceptively lowkey narrative about a dying minister, John Ames, and the sudden reappearance of the town's pr…
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Episode 23 of READING MCCARTHY brings us a great discussion with actor and audiobook narrator Richard Poe. Poe is known to McCarthy fans as the audiobook narrator of McCarthy’s masterwork Blood Meridian. Richard Poe has been a professional actor since 1970, when he left the army and was soon drafted into the chorus of William Ball’s production of O…
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