Cormac McCarthy

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I've read Blood Meridian, The Road and No Country for Old Men. Thinking about reading a few more of his, but this Twitter thread caught my attention today:



I had no idea that Blood Meridian was based on this account. There was a real Glanton gang and a real Judge Holden. Crazy stuff.

 

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Cormac McCarthy’s Secret Muse Breaks Her Silence After Half a Century: “I Loved Him. He Was My Safety.”

When he was 42, Cormac McCarthy fell in love with a 16-year-old girl he met by a motel pool. Augusta Britt would go on to become one of the most significant—and secret—inspirations in literary history, giving life to many of McCarthy’s most iconic characters across his celebrated novels and...

www.vanityfair.com

 

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So he groomed a vulnerable minor

 

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It was the 70s. I assume every male celebrity was banging teenage girls back then.

 

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It was the 70s. I assume every male celebrity was banging teenage girls back then.

Except the gay ones who were probably banging teenage boys.

 

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Sulu

 

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Sulu

 

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Two Years After Cormac McCarthy's Death, Rare Access to His Personal Library Reveals the Man Behind the Myth

The famously reclusive novelist amassed a collection of thousands of books ranging in topics from philosophical treatises to advanced mathematics to the naked mole-rat

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