Modern Western Books

[Formerly Black Trash]

I want something that's like No Country for Old Men

Set in current times

 

[Sensitive Christian Grey]

Cormac McCarthy: two new novels coming in 2022, 16 years after The Road

Luckily for you the guy who wrote that is coming out with new stuff this year. How else you been finding stuff, you tried Goodreads?

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

Cormac McCarthy: two new novels coming in 2022, 16 years after The Road

Luckily for you the guy who wrote that is coming out with new stuff this year. How else you been finding stuff, you tried Goodreads?

Tried it at your rec
It's hard to sift through shyt
For mysteries and thrillers I'll probably just go to the book store or drug store

 

[Sensitive Christian Grey]

Tried it at your rec
It's hard to sift through shyt
For mysteries and thrillers I'll probably just go to the book store or drug store

I'm not gonna lie to you breh, it'd be a tough ask to find stuff quite similar to No Country. Lot of writers I see nowadays are women, who got little to no interest in westerns. The dudes who would be interested in writing them would be like Cormac, in their eighties, not necessarily prolific, obscure. You might be better off just looking into crime stories with a 'literary' edge to it.

 

[FromStLouis]

Write one yourself

3 pages a day - 100 days - 300 page first draft

Start tomorrow

#ChallengeIssued

 

[Lootpack]

If you liked No Country for Old Men, you should try reading Blood Meridian from the same author. Judge Holden is even more ruthless than Anton and the novel basically deconstructs the western.

Also check out some of the works from Nic Pizzolatto (who ended up writing the scripts for True Detective). His stuff is more neo-noir than western, but as was No Country for Old Men.