On Being Between: Apocalypse, Adaptation, McCarthy by Stacey Peebles

“…Cormac McCarthy’s career-long interest in ideas of apocalypse is most evident in his 2006 novel The Road, which was then adapted for film by John Hillcoat in 2009. …”
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Rugged Resonances: From Music in McCarthy to McCarthian Music by Julius Greve, Markus Wierschem

“…It teases out the stylistic idiosyncrasies of McCarthy’s fiction in terms of a sonic register, by tracing its connections to the film scores of movie adaptations like All the Pretty Horses (2000) and The Road (2009), and to the works of a diverse set of musicians and bands directly inspired by McCarthy’s fiction, including acts like Buddy and the Huddle, Horatio Clam, Ben Nichols, Earth, and Neurosis. …”
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Were It a New-Made World: Hawthorne, Melville and the Unmasking of America by Michael Broek

“…The article further places this argument within the context of modern and contemporary American literature, with particular references to Flannery O’Connor and Cormac McCarthy, whose most recent novel, The Road, was released on film in the Fall of 2009.…”
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