It is amazing, but true. Cormac McCarthy, one of the world's most reclusive authors, will actually be on the Oprah show in the coming weeks. It will be his first ever television appearance.

In his book Sutree Knoxville's own Cormac McCarthy painted a colorful, but often dark picture of the outcasts, alcoholics, and homeless folks who lived along the banks of the river here in downtown Knoxville.

Sutree, a loveable, incorrigible, sometimes funny but always broke, and broken man, ambled about Knoxville back when trolleys crisscrossed the town and Market Square was really a large, bustling marketplace.

He's a tough read because his descriptions are so lengthly and intricately woven, but he's worth every minute. McCarthy is a master of words and a genius at painting portraits of people who exist in existential isolation.

He has a huge fan base. Mostly because of his novels Blood Meridian and All the Pretty Horses. A film based on McCarthy's No Country for Old Men will be released this year, and he is also considered to be a top contender for a Pulitzer.