Cormac's Library: Adventures in the Private World of a Literary Genius

For a New York Times bestselling adventure travel writer, an invitation to visit Cormac McCarthy’s eclectic home library in Santa Fe turns into a raucous quest to understand one of America’s greatest modern writers and the mythic Southwest he called home.

It all started with an offhand comment at a boozy Louisiana book festival. Did Grant know Cormac McCarthy had a personal library of 20,000 volumes covering every conceivable subject, from quantum physics and schizophrenia to Uruguayan paleo...