![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (They can be read together or separately, and in any order.) The answer seems to be that he has been saving up what he’s learned and has deposited a fair amount of it into The Passenger and Stella Maris, a pair of novels he is publishing this autumn, 15 years after his last novel The Road won the Pulitzer prize. Rarefied science hasn’t figured in any of his writings, not even in work completed after he came to SFI, such as No Country for Old Men (2005), The Road (2006) or his screenplay for Ridley Scott’s The Counsellor (2013). A scan of his shelves at SFI would reveal, instead of novels by Booker prize winners, manuscripts by his many scientist friends, such as Lisa Randall, a theoretical physicist at Harvard, or Lawrence Krauss, a cosmologist from Arizona State University.ĭuring the half dozen times I have seen McCarthy at SFI, I’ve often wondered what he was doing with all this arcane material he was greedily absorbing. Heady reading matter is nonetheless what McCarthy has long preferred. ![]()
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