Cormac McCarthy

The Directors Guild of America named Joel and Ethan Coen the best directors of 2007 for "No Country for Old Men" Saturday night. It marks the first time a sibling team has won the guild award in this category. The last time a directing team took the...

BEFORE a morgue culture determined to hang a tag on every toe, Cormac McCarthy stands defiantly alive and untagged. Born in New England, he came of literary age in the South with 1965's "The Orchard Keeper" and thus was a "Southern writer" in the eyes...

Louise Erdrich is an immensely satisfying storyteller who molds her novels from the clay of her short fiction. In the preface to "The Red Convertible," a collection of her new and selected stories, Erdrich writes that these pieces later "gather force...

Character is destiny. Score one for Heraclitus, whose succinct aphorism seems especially apt in describing screenwriters' path to the Oscars this year. While taut plotting and visual ingenuity were certainly in abundance in this year's crop of...

There will be catchphrases. Even from the least likely of sources. Case in point: the misanthropic oilman played by Daniel Day-Lewis in Paul Thomas Anderson's "There Will Be Blood" -- his devastating taunt to a bewildered foe, "I . . . drink . . . your ....

Fiction 1. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer ($10.99) 2. The Shack by William P. Young ($14.99) 3. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer ($10.99) 4. Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson ($14) 5. The Road by Cormac McCarthy ($14.95) 6. The Alchemist by Paulo...

HOLLYWOOD has never been so full of nasty denunciations, agonized hand-wringing and self-important rhetoric. But if you thought I was talking about the writers strike, you're wrong. The loudest fussing and feuding is coming from the world of critics and...

Charlize Theron will take the female lead opposite Viggo Mortensen in the big screen adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's prize-winning novel "The Road." John Hillcoat ("The Proposition") is directing the 2929 Entertainment-financed feature, which will be...

Fiction 1. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer ($10.99) 2. The Shack by William P. Young ($14.99) 3. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini ($16) 4. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga ($14) 5. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz ($14) 6....

Admiral Adama arrived at the door with blood on his hands. "I'm sorry, I don't think you want me to shake," actor Edward James Olmos said, presenting his red palms. With his world-weary eyes and the stained cuffs of his military coat, he looked like...

Nothing preempts Hollywood's awards season -- not even a crippling writers strike. On the same day the West Coast and East Coast branches of the Writers Guild of America gathered to discuss an end to the three-month work stoppage, the union took a...

OHKAY OWINGEH, N.M. -- Aspiring screenwriters David and Kevin Linke don't have to go to Hollywood to try to break into the business. It came to them. "Here, if you want to get on a movie set, you can," said David, 20, fresh off four days' work as an...