I Meant to Kill Ye
Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian
By Stephanie Reents
Enter the Strange Void at the Heart of Blood Meridian
After teaching Cormac McCarthy’s bloodiest, most challenging novel to her students for years, Stephanie Reents feels no closer to the strange void at the heart of Blood Meridian than when she began. So she journeys west, following the trail of the historical Glanton Gang across the desert landscape that McCarthy loves. In his archives, she discovers an obscure note about the kid—the novel’s enigmatic protagonist—that might explain why this infamous novel is so hard to shake.
Stephanie Reents is author of The Kissing List, a collection of stories that was an Editors’ Choice in The New York Times Book Review. Her short fiction has appeared in the O. Henry Prize Stories, Best of the West, and numerous other journals. She teaches in the English Department at the College of the Holy Cross and lives in Cambridge with her husband and son.
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