> I'm not sure if Cormac teaches out of necessity or the goodness of his heart, but count me even more despondent if he needs the salary despite his commercial

> I'm not sure if Cormac teaches out of necessity or the goodness of his heart, but count me even more despondent if he needs the salary despite his commercial and critical success. He's always been indifferent or even hostile toward financial success. He also doesn't really "teach" in a formal way - he just prefers hanging around with scientists, and they try to absorb his knowledge. McCarthy has never shown interest in a steady job, a trait that seems to have annoyed both his ex-wives. "We lived in total poverty," says the second, Annie DeLisle, now a restaurateur in Florida. For nearly eight years they lived in a dairy barn outside Knoxville. "We were bathing in the lake," she says with some nostalgia. "Someone would call up and offer him $2,000 to come speak at a university about his books. And he would tell them that everything he had to say was there on the page. So we would eat beans for another week." https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/05/17/specials/mccarthy-venom.html https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/05/17/s...