“I saw you blush!” Oprah Winfrey said to Cormac McCarthy and grinned, looking happy for the first time during an interview that appeared to be supremely awkward the moment it began. It was the summer of 2007. “The Road,” McCarthy’s post-apocalyptic novel, had been chosen for Oprah’s Book Club, and Winfrey had travelled to Santa Fe to meet the author on his turf. The conversation began inauspiciously enough, with a taciturn McCarthy explaining why this on-camera exchange was a first for him (“I don’t think it’s good for your head”) to an incredulous Winfrey (“Oh, really?”).
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