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This is the WBEZ Book Club.
I'm Jordan Rich. Last week we began

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mourning the passing of Cormac McCarthy,
one of this nation's most dynamic novelists,

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who not only wrote twelve books,
but also produced plays, screenplays, and

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short stories. His name is synonymous
with hard bitten westerns, both old time

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and modern, and classics about dystopian
society, most notably his Poetzer Prize winning

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achievement, a book called The Road. Some of his projects, including The

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Road and No Country for Old Men, were produced as commercially successful films.

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But sets Cormack McCarthy's writing apart from
most other successful writers is his philosophy that

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syntax be damned. In stark novels
about death, life, and death again,

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punctuation would often disappear and attribution would
be hard to find. Once you

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realized it was a strategic move on
his part, it made the reading that

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much more fun. His contributions to
American literature are vast. And the good

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news is Cormack McCarthy's books will be
with us forever. And that's the Book

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Club. WZ, Boston's news radio