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\n“Without McCarthy, I would never have developed my bold, nonsensical style.”<\/p>\n
An interview with the Vanity Fair writer whose astounding revelations about Cormac McCarthy went viral for all the wrong reasons:<\/p>\n
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- Vanity Fair published the piece by\u00a0Vincenzo Barney in which he talks about how 64 year old Augusta Britt had a relationship with venerated author Cormac McCarthy when she was 16 and he was 42<\/li>\n
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- Barney is in his 20s and this is his first major reporting piece. It’s been widely slammed for the terrible prose but also the way it romanticizes what seems like a pretty predatory relationship<\/li>\n
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- Biographers and journalists have known about Britt for years but she refused to talk to them<\/li>\n
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- She found Barney on his substack through reviews of McCarthy’s work<\/li>\n
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- They “met” on April 1st which they now consider a private holiday<\/li>\n
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- He spent months living with her and getting drunk, shooting guns etc<\/li>\n
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- Barney insists that Britt herself does not consider herself as having been groomed and he did not push back on that<\/li>\n
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- His father never let him read living authors except Cormac McCarthy<\/li>\n
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- His much trashed style for his VF piece was influenced by Martin Amis<\/li>\n
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- Is very online and hits back at critics, other writers and journalists who think he did a terrible job with the material<\/li>\n
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- He’s writing a novel<\/li>\n
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