In other Oprah news, Cormac McCarthy’s recent foray into apocalyptic literature, The Road, is also one of the more unlikely additions to Oprah’s Book Club. The book follows a father and son as they attempt to survive in an ashy, gray and ruined world of the not-to-distant future, staving off in equal parts roving bands of cannibals and their own maddening hunger. (Nothing says “summer read” more than cannibalism.)

McCarthy sits down with the Oprah and, for the first time on television, discusses his novel.