Past winners of the awards include DH Lawrence, Muriel Spark, Cormac McCarthy and Ian McEwan.

BBC: Oldest book award shortlist unveiled

He says that the song "Black River Killer" brings together an assortment of ideas while drawing from Cormac McCarthy-style narratives.

NPR: Blitzen Trapper: Ramshackle Roots-Rock

In this adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's revered 2006 novel, Viggo Mortensen, caked in grime, plays the father with a fierce physicality and tremulous woundedness.

CNN: Review: A journey down 'The Road'

Two recent examples hit home why the semicolon, otherwise despised by writers such as Cormac McCarthy and Kurt Vonnegut, is indispensable to the art and architecture of prose.

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It is very possible that Mitsurugi and Sophitia will still be peering down from their mountainous home in Tanum, Sweden long after the society that thought they were a good use of resources has fallen into full-on Cormac McCarthy barbarism.

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This is the full-on, block-out-the-sun, Cormac-McCarthy business.

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