Blood Meridian Now

JVH discuss summer activities including Candy's recent visit to The Witliff Collection in San Marcos, Texas to visit the Cormac McCarthy papers and archive. Candy reads aloud from some files, shares odds and ends, and weird fun things she found...and didn't find. JVH shares a listeners correspondence, questions about the archives and they both discuss ephemera included in the archives. Thank you f...

Thank you for listening and welcome to our discussion of Chapter 17 in Blood Meridian. Please let us know what you think and email us at bloodmeridiannow@gmail.com   You can also inquire about our original limited edition set of tarot cards inspired by the novel at same email.

The critic and artist explore a mysterious, often misunderstood, term in the novel Blood Meridian.   "optical democracy" on page 259, within Chapter 17  The adventure takes us to 1925's "The Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays on Art, Culture and Literature" by José Ortega y Gasset.    Keats, Whitman, Burroughs, Van Gogh, Valesquez, painting, Japanese Ukiyo-e prints, oil paint manufacture, writ...

Thank you for listening to our exploration of Blood Meridian chapter by chapter. We would love to hear from you. If you need or want to email us you can at: bloodmeridiannow@gmail.com

Thank you for listening!!! We hope you have time to enjoy the winter season with your loved ones.  We seem to have caught up with the months in the novel. We ask a lot of questions. Why didn't the kid kill Shelby? Would animals congregate in the cold around a fire? What does the new tv series PLURIBUS have to do with Cormac McCarthy?

Thank you for listening...we are excited to have a new episode discussing Chapter 14 of the epic novel BLOOD MERIDIAN. We actually began this idea of this podcast a year ago, in November 2024. It's hard to believe we have been recording our podcast for a year but there eit is. And here you are too!!!! Thank you!   This episode we discuss mules, dead dogs, Apuleius's The Golden Ass" as well as merc...

We have reached the end of the middle of the novel and we discuss everything from carnival, spectacle, hard-boiled writing Bahkin, Joyce and beyond in Chapter 13. Thank you for joining us on this adventure. Thanks you for listening!!!

Thank you for listening! This episode we read listeners emails and... We discuss the disturbing...and poetic chapter 12 where the gang ambushes a community for scalps.  And...we notice significant dates in the novel. We have a Substack page and we have created a list of dates and astronomical movements/descriptions. It's free to subscribe and read! Blood Meridian was published only ten years after...

The judge tells a story and we talk about it. Thank you so much for listening! If you want to tell us a story email us at: bloodmeridiannow@gmail.com

Queer powder, brokeback malpais, merestone and a storytelling feat. We love Chapter 10.  Thank you so much for listening. Thank you for following us on Podbeam and Instagram and Substack. Don't be shy leave us a review...we can take it...even a bad one! Again we are so glad you are joining us on this adventure with the Glanton Gang. "[…] scientific corporations might well become independent states...

"A writer is a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into a radiant body of everliving life." Portrait of The Young Man As An Artist by James Joyce. JVH and Candy discuss Chapter 9 of Blood Meridian including lice, louse, antiwarriors, inversions, alchemy and Chamberlain's source material MY CONFESSION. You can find supplementary content on our substack page here...

Welcome to our discussion of Chapter 8...thank you for listening!!! This is a bit of a long episode and we appreciate you for even beginning to listen to it. We found some concerns including sacrifice, ceremony, identity, capitalism, redistribution festivals, gambling, and even a brief hint at Moby Dick...we may or may not have got to them, ha! "Hark ye yet again,—the little lower layer. All visib...

Chapter 7 has so much for us to talk about!!! Like every chapter the synoptic headers can keep a feller up all night researching. We find many things here. Another chapter on blackness. Deaths of magic and the history of science. Legal motifs like crazy...some we didn't even get to. After all Cormac McCarthy had a few people close to him in law...so it shouldn't be a surprise he has words like "so...

"for years now there had been no country here but the war." “How many times did someone have to run in front of a machine gun before it became an act of cowardice?” Dispatches, Herr   Thank you for listening. Chapter 6 might not have many pages but we found a few things to think about JVH finds some source material. Candy changes lead into gold. The phrase "in country" can be found in Michael Herr...

"Allegories are in the realm of thought what ruins are in the realm of things." Walter Benjamin “Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.” Georges Bataille In this episode we talk about a few ideas an...

The novel becomes quite exciting and seems to enter a different form of descriptives...why do we feel what we feel reading this chapter? Ready. Set. Action. Simile, allegory, pagination, tools and hints of a secret architecture.  We forgot to mention how funny the line from Hayward praying for rain was..."Lord, we are dried to jerky down here." And goddammit it rained! Thank you for listening!!!!!

Very little has been written about the epigraphs in Blood Meridian, especially looking at all three of them together. We fix that. Are the epigraphs misleading? Are the epigraphs another example of the art of misdirection? Thank you for listening. Please consider writing a review or subscribing to this podcast. Email us at: bloodmeridiannow@gmail.com Bohme April 24, 1575-November 17, 1624 (another...

Welcome to Chapter 3 and we are so glad you made it this far! Thank you! This chapter offers a few moments of foreshadowing including the quote for this episode by the Mennonite...who hints at something we will hear from the judge and has become an iconic quote from this novel, "War was always here, before man was, war waited for him." Is that the wrath God has lying waiting? We think about the hu...

We are so glad you found us. Candy's husband said there are lots of podcasts on Blood Meridian and she replied yeah but any with JVH and a woman's perspective? He said you two are like Deadpool and Wolverine. Who is who? Welcome to our discussion of Chapter Two in Blood Meridian. We would love to hear from you! Find us on social media or email us: bloodmeridiannow@gmail.com Please consider writing...

Celebrating the 40th anniversary of Blood Meridian into the culture JVH and Candy introduce the two titles of the novel, some historical context and share their love of this epic novel. This is a special bonus episode to support the main body of this podcast which is going through each novel per episode. The plan is to publish a new episode on consecutive episodes every  week. And of course some s...

Welcome to our podcast dedicated to the epic novel by Cormac McCarthy and his masterpiece BLOOD MERIDIAN. We are so excited to reach out to other fans of this novel and talk everything we can about it. We are planning on one chapter per episode...with some extra episodes thrown in for fun. We are dropping this first episode on Feb 8 to align with the Alpha Centaurids meteor shower. Thank you for l...