Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction
https://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/19/magazine/cormac-mccarthy-s-venomous-fiction.html
One of the rare existing interviews with hermitic author Cormac McCarthy preceding the release of his 1992 novel, All the Pretty Horses.
17. Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgyZ4ia25gg
In this first of two lectures on Blood Meridian, Professor Amy Hungerford walks us through some of the novel's major sources and influences, showing how McCarthy engages both literary tradition and American history, and indeed questions of origins and originality itself. The Bible, Moby-Dick, Paradise Lost, the poetry of William Wordsworth, and the historical narrative of Sam Chamberlain all contribute to the style and themes of this work that remains, in its own right, a provocative meditation on history, one that explores the very limits of narrative and human potential.
Though the lecture is not about No Country for Old Men, it speaks to McCarthy's general style and aesthetic.
'No Country for Old Men': Texas Noir
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/24/books/review/no-country-for-old-men-texas-noir.html
A 2005 review of No Country for Old Men at the time of its publication.
