UT to acquire thousands of books that belonged to native author Cormac McCarthy

Oprah's Exclusive Interview with Cormac McCarthy - Video

Cormac McCarthy notoriously rarely gave interviews. As a result, much of the public has never heard the voice of the celebrated novelist, who died Tuesday at the age of 89. But ahead of the release of his Texas-set “All the Pretty Horses” in 1992, McCarthy sat down to have lunch with New York Times journalist Richard Woodward in El Paso. The result was a 4-hour recording that Woodward used for an article that was instrumental in helping McCarthy achieve the fame that followed him the rest of his