Cormac McCarthy Journal and Penn State University Press

Starting in 2015, the Cormac McCarthy Journal will be published by Penn State University Press. This is great news for McCarthy scholarship. I think also this move demonstrates the high quality of the contributions already published in the journal thus far.

Stacey Peebles, editor of the journal, comments on the announcement:

I’m happy to announce that beginning in 2015, The Cormac McCarthy Journal will be published by Penn State University Press, which will be a boon for us in terms of design, prestige, visibility, production assistance, and availability in libraries and databases like JSTOR. Although our upcoming 2014 issue will be published before Penn State UP takes over our hard-copy production, we have already worked together to create a website for CMJ on their journals page. Clicking “Submissions” on that site will take you to our new online submissions website for the journal.

Although I’m still happy to field inquiries from my gmail address as I’ve done in the past, I’ll now direct submissions to the website, as well as use the site for readers’ reports as much as possible. We also have a new email address specifically for the journal. Access to previously published articles will soon be available through JSTOR (and hopefully MUSE) links on our Penn State UP website. When those links have been established, we’ll take down our old journal website, which has been hosted by the Texas Digital Library.

Members of The Cormac McCarthy Society who pay for “Membership with Journal” will continue to receive a subscription at no extra cost, and Penn State UP will handle subscriptions for non-member individuals as well as institutions.

This has all been possible because the community of McCarthy scholars has produced such great work over the years, and because there’s so much still to be done! Thanks to everyone who has supported CMJ by submitting work, commenting on others’ essays, subscribing, and reading with interest.

Here’s to keeping the critical conversation going!

See also,

• Cormac McCarthy Journal page at Penn State University Press website
• Current website for the Journal (latest issue: vol. 10, no. 2)
• Stacey Peebles' original announcement at CormacMcarthy.com
• Online site for submissions to the Journal 

Cormac McCarthy Journal vol. 8, no. 1 (Fall 2010)

The Fall 2010 issue of the Cormac McCarthy Journal is now available. With Stacey Peebles taking over as editor of the journal, this issue continues work on The Road (which was the subject of the previous issue) and also includes articles on Sunset Limited, McCarthy's western fiction, as well as a number of reviews interacting with McCarthy scholarship.

Table of Contents

Editor’s Introduction (Stacey Peebles)

God, Morality, and Meaning in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road
Erik Wielenberg (1-16)

Prometheus Hits The Road: Revising the Myth
Daniel Luttrull (17-28)

“Minimalist Tragedy”: Nietzschean Thought in McCarthy’s The Sunset Limited
William Quirk (29-46)

A Frontier Myth Turns Gothic: Blood Meridian
Ronja Vieth (47-62)

Cormac McCarthy, Violence, and Borders:
The Map as Code for What Is Not Contained
Daniel Weiss (63-77)

A Note on a Review of Blood Meridian by Robert Bolaño
Samuel Sotillo (78-79)

Don Graham Does Cormac Doing Oprah
Jim Welsh (80-81)

Book Reviews

• Luce, Dianne C. Reading the World: Cormac McCarthy’s Tennessee Period. Review by David Cremean (82-85)
• Beck, John. Dirty Wars: Landscape, Power and Waste in Western American Literature. Review by Rick Wallach (86-87)
• McGilchrist, Megan. The Western Landscape in Cormac McCarthy and Wallace Stegner: Myths of the Frontier. Review by Nell Sullivan (88-91)
• Appalachian Heritage: A Literary Quarterly of the Southern Appalachians. Special issue on Cormac McCarthy. Review by Allen Josephs (92-93)

Contributor Biographies (94-95)

See also,

• Table of Contents and Links to the PDFs of the articles
• The Cormac McCarthy Society
• Read: The Sunset Limited (GBks) (Amz)
• Read: The Road (GBks) (Amz) (Kindle)
• Read: Blood Meridian (GBks) (Amz) (Kindle)

Cormac McCarthy Journal vol. 6, no. 1 (Fall 2008)

Volume 6 of the Cormac McCarthy Journal was dedicated to discussing The Road, McCarthy's 2006 Pulitzer Prize winning, post-apocalyptic novel.

Noting the striking variety of perspective, approach, and method present in the articles, John Cant, the editor for this issue, notes that

There is nothing surprising in that of course, but what is truly astonishing is that they are all able to demonstrate convincingly that all their tropes, images and ideas are to be found in McCarthy’s text in ways which make one sure that he is aware of them himself, that they are not unconscious influences. From Job to Schopenhauer and Derrida, from the Christian mystics to Steinbeck and Ford, from the ‘locomotive’ imagery of death to the painterly imagery of still life, McCarthy seems to know and revere them all. What other living writer displays such erudition?

Table of Contents: 

Editor’s Notes
John Cant

Beyond the Border: Cormac McCarthy in the New Millennium
Dianne C. Luce (6-12)

Cormac McCarthy’s The Sunset Limited: Dialogue of Life and Death: A Review
of the Chicago Production
Dianne C. Luce (13-21)

Another Sense of Ending: The Keynote Address to the
Knoxville Conference
Jay Ellis (22-38)

The Route and Roots of The Road
Wesley G. Morgan (39-47)

The Post-Southern Sense of Place in The Road
Chris Walsh (48-54)

The End of the Road: Pastoralism and the Post-
Apocalyptic Waste Land of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road
Tim Edwards (55-61)

Full Circle: The Road Rewrites The Orchard Keeper
Louis Palmer (62-68)

Hospitality in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road
Phillip A. Snyder (69-86)

Mapping The Road in Post-Postmodernism
Linda Woodson (87-99)

Compassionate McCarthy?: The Road and Schopenhauerian Ethics
Euan Gallivan (100-06)

Sighting Leviathan: Ritualism, Daemonism and the Book of Job in McCarthy’s
Latest Works
John Vanderheide (107-120)

“The lingering scent of divinity” in The Sunset Limited and The Road
Susan J. Tyburski (121-28)

“Golden chalice, good to house a god”: Still Life in The Road
Randal S. Wilhelm (129-49)

Contributor Biographies (150)

See also,

• Link to the full PDF of the Journal 
• Cormac McCarthy Society
• Read The Road: (GBks) (Amazon)

Cormac McCarthy Journal vol. 7, no. 1 (Fall 2009)

Editor's Page
John Wegner

Cormac McCarthy in High School  (1-6)
Dianne C. Luce

The West as Symbol of the Eschaton in Cormac McCarthy (7-15)
Chris Dacus

The Road to the Sun They Cannot See: Plato's Allegory of the Cave, Oblivion, and Guidance in Cormac McCarthy's The Road  (16-30)
Carole Juge

A Note on “Weird Little Marks” (31-33)
Wesley G. Morgan

A Keatsian Echo in Cormac McCarthy’s The Orchard Keeper (34-35)
Richard Rankin Russell

Book Reviews (36-51)

• Parrish, Timothy. From the Civil War to the Apocalypse: Postmodern History and American Fiction. Review by Wallis Sanborn (36-39)
• Lincoln, Kenneth. Cormac McCarthy: American Canticles. Review by Mike Fonash (40-41)
• Frye, Steven. Understanding Cormac McCarthy. Review by Capper Nichols (42-44)
• The Road (Movie),  111 minutes. Review by Mark Busby (45-46)
• The Road (Movie),  111 minutes. Review by Cynthia Miller (47-51)

Author Biographies  (52-53)

See also,

• Table of Contents and links to PDFs of the articles
• Cormac McCarthy Society