Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Cities of the Plain Film Set for 2012

Well, as long as I'm throwing out updates courtesy of imdb.com, I may as well mention that Andrew Dominik has been attached to direct his adaptation of Cities of the Plain, scheduled for release in 2012.

Dominik is most widely known for 2007's The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, which he wrote and directed.

Labels: Andrew Dominik, Cities of the Plain, movies

posted by mp
3/23/2010

Blood Meridian Film Announced for 2011

Internet movie resource imdb.com reveals that the film version of Blood Meridian has been announced with a release date sometime in 2011.

Todd Field, who previously directed In the Bedroom (2001) and Little Children (2006) will direct from his own screenplay.

Field is credited as writer of In the Bedroom and co-writer of Little Children, each of which received Oscar nominations for screenwriting. In the Bedroom was also nominated for best picture, but lost to A Beautiful Mind.

Casting information about Blood Meridian is not yet available.

Labels: Blood Meridian, movies, Todd Field

posted by mp
3/23/2010

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Dues Increase

The Cormac McCarthy Society recently announced an increase in annual dues. This adjustment represents an across-the-board increase of US$5 to each membership category. Student/military membership has increased to US$30, and regular membership has increased to US$40. These changes, together with some other nominal increases in international service charges, are now reflected on the Join page. We appreciate your patience and understanding.

Labels: dues, membership, site stuff

posted by mp
3/16/2010

Friday, May 08, 2009

Cormac McCarthy Papers Opening Soon

Katie Salzmann, lead archivist at the Southwestern Writers Collection at Texas State University at San Marcos, informs us that while construction on the Witliff Collections continues, the Cormac McCarthy Papers should be opened for research in mid-May.

Access to the papers, at this point, is by appointment only.

We'll post more details as we have them, but for now we include, for your reading pleasure, the complete finding aid for the papers [PDF].

Among the collection's notable items is an unfinished novel called The Passenger.

Updated: Katie Salzmann has provided us with a revised finding aid; I have updated the file I linked to above.

Also, it's accesible via:
http://alkek.library.txstate.edu/swwc/archives/writers/cormac.htm

She also informs me of the Research Appointment Request Form, which is at:
http://www.library.txstate.edu/about/departments/swwc/research-req-form.html

Labels: Cormac McCarthy Papers, Texas State University, The Passenger, Witliff Collections

posted by mp
5/08/2009

Wednesday, February 04, 2009

National Portrait Gallery Acquires McCarthy Portrait

As reported on their blog, facetoface, the National Portrait Gallery has acquired a portrait of Cormac McCarthy by artist Andrew Tift.

Marty Priola, the Society's Webmaster and Assistant Secretary, spoke with the National Portrait Gallery's Warren Perry and offered his thoughts on McCarthy's place in the canon. Read the announcement and interview.

The painting, from 2004, is acrylic on canvas; it is currently on view in the New Acquisitions Gallery of the National Portrait Gallery.

Labels: National Portrait Gallery, painting, Smithsonian

posted by mp
2/04/2009

Conference Information Posted

The Cormac McCarthy Society and The CAPITAL Centre of the Royal Shakespeare Company are delighted to announce the Fourth International Conference on Cormac McCarthy. In addition to papers and panels on all aspects of McCarthy's work in fiction, drama and film, the conference will also feature guest speakers and—naturally—special dramatic presentations, which may include an RSC performance in nearby Stratford on Avon, as well as at the Capital Center itself. More details on special events will be announced as they are confirmed. Read more....

Labels: conferences

posted by mp
2/04/2009

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Bookshop Updates! More Coming Soon

We've just added two new items to the Bookshop: John Cant's Cormac McCarthy and the Myth of American Exceptionalism, and Shane Schimpf's newly revised Reader's Guide to Blood Meridian. We also regret to inform you that Myth, Legend, Dust has gone out of print for the time being; it will, however, be replaced soon with a new, expanded edition. Visit the Bookshop to order or to read more about the new titles; click the link at left.

Society members have just received a new edition of the Cormac McCarthy Newsletter; for those of you not in the Society, information contained therein about our fall conference in San Marcos and about next year's international conference in Stratford Upon Avon will be posted here shortly. For more about the Society, click the Society or Join links to your left.
posted by mp
6/19/2008

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