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Paperback Riders: Raymond Carver

November 8, 2024 Tim Martin 2

When our editor expressed a fondness for Raymond Carver some time ago, I added him to my list of subjects for investigation. Interviewing Willy Vlautin earlier this year his name came up just as I’d started […]

Paperback Riders: Cormac McCarthy, A Great American Novelist?

July 3, 2023 Tim Martin 1

John William DeForest coined the term “the great American novel” in an 1868 essay. He defined it as “the picture of the ordinary emotions and manners of American existence.” He felt that Uncle Tom’s Cabin’, which […]