Buckner’s three interviews with McCarthy, reproduced here, appeared in the Lexington Herald in 1975–1976, and she became friendly enough with Anne McCarthy that in her first interview, of March 1975, she reports visiting her in Tennessee. Hare also introduced McCarthy to journalist Mary Buckner, who, Anne De Lisle recalls, was very close to the Hares and possibly a relative. He introduced McCarthy to writer and poet Guy Davenport, who was a neighbor, and this led to correspondence between the two men 2 and to Davenport’s reviewing Outer Dark in the New York Times Book Review. Frank, an outgoing salesman, made it his business to know everyone, according to Carolyn, and he seems to have taken pleasure in promoting McCarthy’s career through his local contacts. McCarthy and his wife Anne visited them from time to time or hosted them at their own home in Louisville, Tennessee. Friends Frank and Carolyn Hare, for example, had moved to Lexington to live in Frank’s family home after the death of his parents. Why Lexington? What connections allowed the region’s newspapers access to McCarthy, while other venues were left out? The answer seems to be that McCarthy’s friends from his university days facilitated these early interviews. This article presents all ten of them, together, for the first time. Dianne Luce’s online bibliography identifies several others in East Tennessee periodicals, and recently Zachary Turpin has discovered previously unknown interviews with McCarthy published in Lexington, Kentucky, between 19. The earliest one we have discovered appeared in the Knoxville News-Sentinel in the fall of 1968, when the author was home from Europe and had published his second book, Outer Dark. The truth is that from the beginning of his career, McCarthy has occasionally given interviews in local newspapers, especially in locations where he lived and had friends. Cormac McCarthy, interviews, biography, comments on writing, early novels and screenplayĬormac McCarthy has granted so few interviews in nationally distributed periodicals that journalists still often label him reclusive, although McCarthy scholars rarely do.
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