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Episode 26: Turnabout, or, the Evening Redness in the Face, or Josyph Takes the Reins

Episode 26: Turnabout, or, the Evening Redness in the Face, or Josyph Takes the Reins

FromReading McCarthy


Episode 26: Turnabout, or, the Evening Redness in the Face, or Josyph Takes the Reins

FromReading McCarthy

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Length:
86 minutes
Released:
May 26, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Everything is topsy-turvy for this episode as returning guest Peter Josyph seizes control of the station and turns the tables on your regular host Scott Yarbrough, interviewing him.  Regular host Scott Yarbrough is the co-author of A Practical Introduction to Literary Study, co-editor with Rick Wallach of the two volume Carrying the Fire casebook collections of essays on The Road, and author of numerous essays on McCarthy, Faulkner, Hemingway, and others.  Peter Josyph is an Author, Actor, Artist, Auteur, musician and composer and more Peter Josyph’s books include The Wrong Reader’s Guide to Cormac McCarthy: All the Pretty Horses; Adventures in Reading Cormac McCarthy; Cormac McCarthy’s House: Reading McCarthy Without Walls; Liberty Street: Encounters at Ground Zero; The Way of the Trumpet; What One Man Said to Another: Talks With Richard Selzer; and The Wounded River, which was a New York Times Notable Book of 1993. His films include the award-winning Liberty Street: Alive at Ground Zero; Shakespeare in New York; Hell; Bardtalk; A Few Things Basquiat Did in School; and Acting McCarthy: The Making of Billy Bob Thornton’s All the Pretty Horses. As a painter his McCarthy-related exhibitions have shown in Sweden; England; Australia; and the far countries of Texas and Kentucky.  peter currently lectures on film for the Frick Estate Lectures at Nassau County Museum of Art on Long Island. Music includes (at 7:42 and 55:24) excerpts from “Will You Miss Me When I’m Gone” by the Carter Family, Victor 21638-A (1929), and as always original pieces by Thomas Frye, including the intro (“The World to Come”) interlude (“Toadvine”) and the outro (“Blues for Blevins”).   The views of the host and his guests do not necessarily reflect the views of their home institutions or the Cormac McCarthy Society.  To contact the host, please reach out to readingmccarthy(@)gmail.com. Find us on Twitter and Facebook; the website is at readingmccarthy.buzzsprout.com, and if you’d like to support the show you can click on the little heart symbol at the top of the page to buy the show a cappuccino, or you can support us at www.patreon.com/readingmccarthy. Support the show
Released:
May 26, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (51)

READING MCCARTHY is a podcast devoted to the consideration and discussion of the works of one of our greatest American writers, Cormac McCarthy. Each episode will call upon different well-known Cormackian readers and scholars to help us explore different works and various essential aspects of McCarthy’s writing.