Cormac McCarthy has long presented himself as a man of simple appetites.
Diners — which he sometimes calls cafeterias or lunchcounters or drugstores — are all over the place in McCarthy’s fiction.
The existential cowboys in McCarthy’s Border Trilogy novels, set out on the frontier, consume many of their meals fireside.
Here too, though, hash houses are timeless way stations.
The meals are, in this writer’s hands, private acts in public spaces.
Persons:
Cormac McCarthy, Richard B, Woodward, McCarthy, Suttree ”, “
Organizations:
The New York Times Magazine
Locations:
El Paso