Cormac McCarthy on Cars, Guns, & Music

An excerpt of McCarthy's Unreleased Interview

We are back with another segment of Cormac McCarthy’s unreleased interview. This Substack is the only place online where it is currently posted. Today, McCarthy speaks at length about cars and trucks, how he made guns, his interest in art, and playing guitar. More segments will be released soon! There are over seven hours of transcripts left to post— thanks for supporting the Literary Renaissance.

McCarthy: I was interested in all sorts of things, since they were not. I was very bright, for one thing, and I was just interested in all sorts of things, except maybe in high school. I remember when I was in grammar school, the teacher asked did anybody have any hobbies. I was the only one that had any hobbies, and I had every hobby there was! There was no hobby I didn’t have. Name anything, no matter how esoteric, I had found it and dabbled in it. I could have given everyone a hobby, and I still had 40 or 50 to take home!