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Episode 15: The Gardener's Son with Stacey Peebles
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Episode 15 is a dive into McCarthy’s first produced and published screenplay, The Gardener’s Son. The guest on this episode is Dr. Stacey Peebles, Chair of the English program, Director of Film Studies, and the Marlene and David Grissom Professor of Humanities at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. She is the author of Welcome to the Suck: Narrating the American Soldier's Experience in Iraq (2011) and Cormac McCarthy and Performance: Page, Stage, Screen (2017). She is editor of the collection Violence in Literature and, with Ben West, is co-editor of the volume Approaches to Teaching the Works of Cormac McCarthy, which is forthcoming this year. She has been editor of the Cormac McCarthy Journal since 2010.
Thanks to Thomas Frye, who composed, performed, and produced the music for READING MCCARTHY. Included are Intro: “World to Come”; “Running with Wovlves” (29:38); “Much Like Yourself” (42:20); Outro: “Blues for Blevins.”
The views of the host and his guests do not necessarily reflect the views of their home institutions or the Cormac McCarthy Society.
Starting in spring of 2023, the podcast will accept minor sponsorship offers to offset the costs of the podcast. This may cause a mild disconnect in earlier podcasts where the host asks for patrons in lieu of sponsorships. But if we compare it to a very large and naked bald man in the middle of the desert who leads you to an extinct volcano to create gunpowder, it seems pretty minor...
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Manage episode 299311750 series 2858803
Episode 15 is a dive into McCarthy’s first produced and published screenplay, The Gardener’s Son. The guest on this episode is Dr. Stacey Peebles, Chair of the English program, Director of Film Studies, and the Marlene and David Grissom Professor of Humanities at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. She is the author of Welcome to the Suck: Narrating the American Soldier's Experience in Iraq (2011) and Cormac McCarthy and Performance: Page, Stage, Screen (2017). She is editor of the collection Violence in Literature and, with Ben West, is co-editor of the volume Approaches to Teaching the Works of Cormac McCarthy, which is forthcoming this year. She has been editor of the Cormac McCarthy Journal since 2010.
Thanks to Thomas Frye, who composed, performed, and produced the music for READING MCCARTHY. Included are Intro: “World to Come”; “Running with Wovlves” (29:38); “Much Like Yourself” (42:20); Outro: “Blues for Blevins.”
The views of the host and his guests do not necessarily reflect the views of their home institutions or the Cormac McCarthy Society.
Starting in spring of 2023, the podcast will accept minor sponsorship offers to offset the costs of the podcast. This may cause a mild disconnect in earlier podcasts where the host asks for patrons in lieu of sponsorships. But if we compare it to a very large and naked bald man in the middle of the desert who leads you to an extinct volcano to create gunpowder, it seems pretty minor...
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