Well worth reading a great (and rare) interview with Cormac McCarthy in the Wall Street Journal on the eve of the release of the movie version of The Road.
McCarthy comes across as someone with a finely tuned bullshit detector. He drew upon his own relationship with his young son for his post apocalyptic masterpiece. I was particularly touched by what he said when asked about the reaction to the novel from other fathers:
“I have the same letter from about six different people. One from Australia, one from Germany, one from England, but they all said the same thing. They said, “I started reading your book after dinner and I finished it 3:45 the next morning, and I got up and went upstairs and I got my kids up and I just sat there in the bed and held them.”
