Oprah Winfrey To Interview Reclusive Author Cormac McCarthy
by Mary K. Brunskill

Chicago, IL (AHN) - Cormac McCarthy, the Pulitzer-prize winning novelist who authored "The Road," will be interviewed by Oprah Winfrey on June 5. It will be the first television appearance McCarthy, well-known for his reclusivity, has ever made.
"The Road" has been on the New York Times Bestseller List since it was announced that Winfrey had picked his novel for Oprah's Book Club in March. The book is a post-apocalyptic tale that chronicles a journey undertaken by a father and son after most of life on earth has been destroyed by an unnamed disaster.
During McCarthy's taped interview the author shares his ideas regarding "notoreity, women and life's necessities."
McCarthy writes in the Southern Gothic, western and post-apocalyptic genres. "The Road" has appalled and fascinated readers with its exploration of subject matter including cannibalism, child rape and suicide.