The Great Cormac McCarthy Dumpster Dive

Reporter Debbie Nathan goes deep— we are the wiser for it

R.I.P. Cormac McCarthy.

I had a certain relationship with McCarthy, based on going through his trash in the mid-1990s in El Paso.

I got the urge to do this because every other big time writer in town (like Abraham Verghese, Ben Saenz) was doing free readings during the El Paso public library's annual community fundraisers, but McCarthy refused to partici…