The Legacy of Cormac McCarthy: A Final Conversation and Unseen Villains.

David Kushner, a long-time contributor to Rolling Stone, reflects on his conversations with Cormac McCarthy, the acclaimed and elusive novelist who died last week at 89. McCarthy, who gave notoriously few interviews, proved a spry talker, deeply knowledgeable, acidly funny, and infinitely curious, especially about his favorite subject, science. He became a mentor to Kushner, offering up advice on writing and publishing. McCarthy's last conversation with Kushner was a few months ago, during which Kushner heard something in his voice he hadn't heard before — age.