Robert Olmstead's six favorite books

Robert Olmstead's novels include Far Bright Star and the award-winning Coal Black Horse. His latest book is The Coldest Night, a soldier's love story, set against the backdrop of the Korean War.

One of his six favorite books, as told to The Week magazine:

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

McCarthy is our very own Shakespeare. He remembers the people we would choose to forget. He reminds us of