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Re:Cormac McCarthy's personal library by nylonstrung on Thursday October 02, 2025 @05:14AM (#45447654)
The only "self-insert" he's done is the main character of Suttree which is semi-autobiographical

The judge is an incarnation of evil and a pedophile so I don't think that's his Mary sue

Re:Cormac McCarthy's personal library by knodi123 on Thursday October 02, 2025 @10:27PM (#45458212)
> The judge is an incarnation of evil and a pedophile so I don't think that's his Mary sue

Although... he did rather famously have a thing for underage girls...

https://medium.com/belover/cormac-mccarthy-was-a-pedophile-a...