A Long-Held Secret Is Now Public. Will It Alter Cormac McCarthy’s Legacy?; The New York Times, November 23, 2024

Alexandra Alter and Elisabeth Egan, The New York Times; A Long-Held Secret Is Now Public. Will It Alter Cormac McCarthy’s Legacy?

"Several scholars also raised questions about the extensive excerpts from McCarthy’s letters to Britt, and noted that while Britt owns the physical letters, McCarthy’s words, even in letters to others, are the intellectual property of his literary estate. Attempts to reach a representative of McCarthy’s literary estate were not successful, but a person with knowledge of the estate’s practices who was not authorized to speak on the record said that the estate did not grant permission for McCarthy’s letters to be reproduced."