What We Could Learn from a Film Version of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian

This summer, I’m teaching an introductory reading course at UC Santa Cruz. One of the first assignments asks students to reflect on the last time a book fucked them up (not the actual assignment wording). The question is really three: when did a book move you to wonder by its aesthetics, or when did it … Continue reading What We Could Learn from a Film Version of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian