My Head Is Exploding!

Here is the opening night schedule for the Cormac McCarthy Conference in Memphis this coming October...

Greetings: 

Rick Wallach, Ringmaster

Steve Frye, President

Stacey Peebles, editor, The Cormac McCarthy Journal

(Welcome by any designated representative of the University of Memphis – to be determined)

7:30 – 9:15 PM – Opening Panel, “Fifty Years of Cormac McCarthy”

1. Fifty Years of McCarthy’s Writing in Blood. David Harris, Deakin University (Australia)

2. Is Cormac McCarthy a Nihilist? Shane Schimpf, editor, A Reader’s Guide to Blood Meridian

3. Cormac McCarthy’s Anti-Landscapes. Michael Madsen, University of Southern Denmark

4. A Palimpsestuous Relationship: Cormac McCarthy’s Western Fiction and the Screenplay. David Otto Fitzgerald, University of Sydney (Australia)

5. The Human Clock. Candy Minx, independent scholar.

9:30 till whenever: The Musical Cormackians jam session, Eugene Young, compere: commons area, Fogelman ballroom, 4th Floor.