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Cormac McCarthy, Photographing Writers, Derek Owusu

Johny Pitts takes a deep dive into the new novels from one of America's greatest living writers, Cormac McCarthy.

Sixteen years since his Pulitzer Prize winning last novel, The Road, Cormac McCarthy’s long awaited new books, The Passenger and Stella Maris, have arrived. Johny Pitts takes deep dive into the pages with writer, Rob Doyle and literary editor, Emmie Francis.

We can all visualise a photograph of our favourite writer. But why are they such compelling subjects, and what goes into a great author portrait? Johny talks to photographer Laura Wilson, who spent over a decade shooting the biggest names in the literary world from Cormac McCarthy to Zadie Smith to Gabriel García Márquez for her book The Writers.

And Derek Owusu shares his Book I've Never Lend.

Book List – Sunday 20 November and Thursday 24 November

The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy
Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Threshold by Rob Doyle
Autobibliograhy by Rob Doyle
The Writers by Laura Wilson
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
That Reminds Me by Derek Owusu
Loosing the Plot by Derek Owusu

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28 minutes

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  • Sun 20 Nov 2022 16:00
  • Thu 24 Nov 2022 15:30

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