Saturday, June 9, 2007

Interview with Cormac

Trey Patterson pins down the shallow creepiness of Oprah Winfrey's recent interview with literary icon Cormac McCarthy.

What do Bono and Michael Moore and Cormac McCarthy have in common in this context? Have they materialized in our family rooms so that we can do our part—for Africa, for health care, for Lit-ra-chur—without giving a dime or breaking a sweat? If Jerome David Salinger descended from his own private ashram in New Hampshire to greet Oprah with a hug, would she waste our time by asking questions about "identifying" with Franny Glass? What does she want us to get from this show?

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