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(NYT)](/topic/$nyt) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "Cormac McCarthy owned over a hundred rifles and pistolsso many in fact that he loaned several period firearms to a production company during filming of 2004s THE ALAMO. In addition he built his own big game rifles. Heres a schematic he drew for a rifle barrel:" [X Link](https://x.com/AmericanGwyn/status/1996343592609361936) 2025-12-03T22:19Z 21.1K followers, 480.8K engagements "My six-part lecture series on Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian is available for free on YouTube and starts here:" [X Link](https://x.com/AmericanGwyn/status/1998030375142990134) 2025-12-08T14:02Z 21.1K followers, 32.2K engagements "We know psychology is a scam for two reasons. One: all the children of psychologists are insane. And two: in a hundred years of psychoanalysis no one has ever gotten better.David Mamet" [X Link](https://x.com/AmericanGwyn/status/1998394023380209673) 2025-12-09T14:07Z 21.1K followers, 242.3K engagements "Theres nothing in Cormac McCarthys novel about feminism. Theres no mention of things going bad when women began to live independently from men. Ive been teaching the novel for twenty years and the passage youre referencing doesnt exist" [X Link](https://x.com/AmericanGwyn/status/1996219252064330012) 2025-12-03T14:05Z 21.1K followers, 1.1M engagements "Elia Kazans A FACE IN THE CROWD (1957) is not only a masterpiece: its a frighteningly prescient one. (Also this film proves Andy Griffith could have been the greatest actor of his generation if he hadnt taken that detour to Mayberry)" [X Link](https://x.com/AmericanGwyn/status/1997799360512541142) 2025-12-07T22:44Z 21.1K followers, 5883 engagements "2. The notes Cormac made previous to this one concern Heidegger and Wittgenstein (he preferred the latter). In those he seems to be pondering the ways in which language informs and creates its user" [X Link](https://x.com/AmericanGwyn/status/1998517968226103552) 2025-12-09T22:19Z 21.1K followers, 18.5K engagements "Lot of ole boys who work out here in western Oklahoma lose their hearingthe wind takes it. Ranchers and roughnecks they spend too much time on the plains and when theyre old thats all they can heara constant breeze blowing" [X Link](https://x.com/AmericanGwyn/status/1997696063504109578) 2025-12-07T15:53Z 21.1K followers, 4003 engagements "I couldnt agree more. Helen DeWitt is among our greatest living novelists and THE LAST SAMURAI is one of the three best American novels of the past twenty-five years (the other two being Philipp Meyers THE SON and Denis Johnsons TREE OF SMOKE)" [X Link](https://x.com/AmericanGwyn/status/1995214233324474630) 2025-11-30T19:31Z 21.1K followers, 133.9K engagements "We lost Daniel Woodrell the day after Thanksgiving. He wrote about my peoplethe backwoodsmen of the Ozark highlandsmore truthfully more thoughtfully than anyone. I thought of his novels as friends. Rest in peace Daniel: Ill do my meager part to ensure your work lives on" [X Link](https://x.com/AmericanGwyn/status/1995509281937141926) 2025-12-01T15:04Z 21.1K followers, 8822 engagements "Over the years Ive written for Esquire NPR The Spectator various other publications but nothing has attracted more attention than my essay about Cormac McCarthys Gnostic Conservatism (10000+ reads). If that topic sounds interesting to you the links in the image below" [X Link](https://x.com/AmericanGwyn/status/1996588371024453840) 2025-12-04T14:32Z 21.1K followers, 31.1K engagements "Photos from yesterday at the Cormac McCarthy Archive (the Wittliff allows scholars to take digital pics now). Last two pages of BLOOD MERIDIAN with Cormacs final emendations. This is the draft Cormac delivered to Albert Erskine at Random House before galleys were printed:" [X Link](https://x.com/AmericanGwyn/status/1996958823081275439) 2025-12-05T15:04Z 21.1K followers, 11.6K engagements "The latest tranche of Cormac McCarthy papers acquired by the Wittliff contains the following note in Cormacs hand: The moral clarity of the English speaking people has been a thousand year perfecting. It is a pointless task to imagine such a strength taking markedly less time than this in some other culture. The notion that we are all as one is nonsense" [X Link](https://x.com/AmericanGwyn/status/1998475060223348921) 2025-12-09T19:29Z 21.1K followers, 383.1K engagements "This world is not my home" [X Link](https://x.com/AmericanGwyn/status/1998894511431598547) 2025-12-10T23:16Z 21.1K followers, 8315 engagements "In the new batch of Cormac McCarthy papers just made available to scholars by the Wittliff this list of GOALS that Cormac typed up at some point: Get rid of trash activities. Create an Internal Monitor. Remember dreams. Zen eating. Do not slide just this one time" [X Link](https://x.com/AmericanGwyn/status/1999117456997077243) 2025-12-11T14:01Z 21.1K followers, 60K engagements "Thankful for this wonderful review of my novella THE CANNIBAL OWL in todays New York Times: via @NYTimes" [X Link](https://x.com/AmericanGwyn/status/1895498419197657222) 2025-02-28T15:36Z 21.1K followers, 123.3K engagements "The worst lie young novelists are told is that writing is therapeutic. Writing is not therapeutic. Writing is work. And like all work it takes its toll on you" [X Link](https://x.com/AmericanGwyn/status/1996661505069404417) 2025-12-04T19:22Z 21.1K followers, 101.8K engagements "I believe Denis Johnsons TREE OF SMOKE is one of the ten best novels produced by an American writer" [X Link](https://x.com/AmericanGwyn/status/1999532672897384613) 2025-12-12T17:31Z 21.1K followers, 22.1K engagements
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@AmericanGwyn Aaron Gwyn
Aaron Gwyn posts on X about youtube, dewitt, im a, culture the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.
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Social Influence
Social category influence social networks XXX% technology brands XXX%
Social topic influence youtube 3.7%, dewitt 3.7%, im a 3.7%, culture 3.7%, has been 3.7%, zen 3.7%, $nyt 3.7%, new york 3.7%, york times XXX%
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @nytimes @jakebrodes @jonathanbfine @sarahlol1863603 @joycecaroloates @jcardinaj @higgins_j @_conan0x @barkuspeckers @micahhaley @nafisaayou8895 @atkinsonchip @j07538625 @droscargutierre @thomasb238 @egglorddanos4a2 @youreprey @showme205 @jacob__siegel @parthenogenics
Top assets mentioned New York Times Co. (NYT)
Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"Cormac McCarthy owned over a hundred rifles and pistolsso many in fact that he loaned several period firearms to a production company during filming of 2004s THE ALAMO. In addition he built his own big game rifles. Heres a schematic he drew for a rifle barrel:"
X Link 2025-12-03T22:19Z 21.1K followers, 480.8K engagements
"My six-part lecture series on Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian is available for free on YouTube and starts here:"
X Link 2025-12-08T14:02Z 21.1K followers, 32.2K engagements
"We know psychology is a scam for two reasons. One: all the children of psychologists are insane. And two: in a hundred years of psychoanalysis no one has ever gotten better.David Mamet"
X Link 2025-12-09T14:07Z 21.1K followers, 242.3K engagements
"Theres nothing in Cormac McCarthys novel about feminism. Theres no mention of things going bad when women began to live independently from men. Ive been teaching the novel for twenty years and the passage youre referencing doesnt exist"
X Link 2025-12-03T14:05Z 21.1K followers, 1.1M engagements
"Elia Kazans A FACE IN THE CROWD (1957) is not only a masterpiece: its a frighteningly prescient one. (Also this film proves Andy Griffith could have been the greatest actor of his generation if he hadnt taken that detour to Mayberry)"
X Link 2025-12-07T22:44Z 21.1K followers, 5883 engagements
"2. The notes Cormac made previous to this one concern Heidegger and Wittgenstein (he preferred the latter). In those he seems to be pondering the ways in which language informs and creates its user"
X Link 2025-12-09T22:19Z 21.1K followers, 18.5K engagements
"Lot of ole boys who work out here in western Oklahoma lose their hearingthe wind takes it. Ranchers and roughnecks they spend too much time on the plains and when theyre old thats all they can heara constant breeze blowing"
X Link 2025-12-07T15:53Z 21.1K followers, 4003 engagements
"I couldnt agree more. Helen DeWitt is among our greatest living novelists and THE LAST SAMURAI is one of the three best American novels of the past twenty-five years (the other two being Philipp Meyers THE SON and Denis Johnsons TREE OF SMOKE)"
X Link 2025-11-30T19:31Z 21.1K followers, 133.9K engagements
"We lost Daniel Woodrell the day after Thanksgiving. He wrote about my peoplethe backwoodsmen of the Ozark highlandsmore truthfully more thoughtfully than anyone. I thought of his novels as friends. Rest in peace Daniel: Ill do my meager part to ensure your work lives on"
X Link 2025-12-01T15:04Z 21.1K followers, 8822 engagements
"Over the years Ive written for Esquire NPR The Spectator various other publications but nothing has attracted more attention than my essay about Cormac McCarthys Gnostic Conservatism (10000+ reads). If that topic sounds interesting to you the links in the image below"
X Link 2025-12-04T14:32Z 21.1K followers, 31.1K engagements
"Photos from yesterday at the Cormac McCarthy Archive (the Wittliff allows scholars to take digital pics now). Last two pages of BLOOD MERIDIAN with Cormacs final emendations. This is the draft Cormac delivered to Albert Erskine at Random House before galleys were printed:"
X Link 2025-12-05T15:04Z 21.1K followers, 11.6K engagements
"The latest tranche of Cormac McCarthy papers acquired by the Wittliff contains the following note in Cormacs hand: The moral clarity of the English speaking people has been a thousand year perfecting. It is a pointless task to imagine such a strength taking markedly less time than this in some other culture. The notion that we are all as one is nonsense"
X Link 2025-12-09T19:29Z 21.1K followers, 383.1K engagements
"This world is not my home"
X Link 2025-12-10T23:16Z 21.1K followers, 8315 engagements
"In the new batch of Cormac McCarthy papers just made available to scholars by the Wittliff this list of GOALS that Cormac typed up at some point: Get rid of trash activities. Create an Internal Monitor. Remember dreams. Zen eating. Do not slide just this one time"
X Link 2025-12-11T14:01Z 21.1K followers, 60K engagements
"Thankful for this wonderful review of my novella THE CANNIBAL OWL in todays New York Times: via @NYTimes"
X Link 2025-02-28T15:36Z 21.1K followers, 123.3K engagements
"The worst lie young novelists are told is that writing is therapeutic. Writing is not therapeutic. Writing is work. And like all work it takes its toll on you"
X Link 2025-12-04T19:22Z 21.1K followers, 101.8K engagements
"I believe Denis Johnsons TREE OF SMOKE is one of the ten best novels produced by an American writer"
X Link 2025-12-12T17:31Z 21.1K followers, 22.1K engagements