When Your Literary Heroes (Inevitably) Fail You
On learning about Cormac McCarthy's 16-year-old "muse"
Yesterday I woke up expecting life to be normal and my favorite author not to be legitimately guilty of statutory rape of a 17 year old when he was in his “early” forties. I also didn’t expect to read this story in a sprawling, romanticized, purple-prose narrative in Vanity Fair. Life is full of stupid and horrid surpris…
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