A Year in Reading: Andrew Valencia

In 2020, I fulfilled a goal that I set for myself in college and completed gradually over the next twelve years—to read every novel that has ever published. As it happened, I finished , the last book on my list and the final installment of McCarthy’s , while on vacation in Japan. Like the best of McCarthy’s works, is saturated with sadness and longing for a time gone by, for an epoch that has violently passed away, and for the disordered lives left behind in its wake. For Billy Parham and John