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PILE ON

‘Vanity Fair’ Faces Huge Backlash Over Cormac McCarthy Scoop

Many have criticized the way the magazine revealed McCarthy’s “secret muse,” whom he met when she was 16 and he was 42.

Eboni Boykin-Patterson

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NO COUNTRY FOR YOUNG WOMEN

Revealed: ‘The Road’ Novelist Trafficked Girl, 17, To Mexico

The now 64-year-old said she was “in and out of foster care” when she met the author of ‘The Road’ at a motel pool.

Emell Derra Adolphus

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CALL IT

Only Cormac McCarthy Could Make Mainstream Movies This Cruel

The power of the iconic author’s work was so undeniable that it gave birth to perhaps the darkest Best Picture winner of all time.

A. A. Dowd

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DARKER AND DARKER

Cormac McCarthy Was American Lit’s Lyrical Lone Wolf

The Pulitzer prize-winning author of “Blood Meridian,” “All the Pretty Horses,” and “The Road” went his own way, but was still very much in the American grain.

Malcolm Jones

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dark and darker

Cormac McCarthy Uses Fiction to Cross Examine the Universe

With “Stella Maris,” the novelist unloads the second volley in the double-barreled publication of two paired novels this fall.

Nick Romeo

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strange brew

Incest Is Only the Beginning in Cormac McCarthy’s New Novel

Part crime story, part metaphysical exploration, the Pulitzer-prize-winning author’s first novel since “The Road” is a fascinating but sometimes uneasy mash-up of styles and ideas.

Nick Romeo

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TERRIFIED AND LOVING IT

David Thomson Wants to Talk About Why We Adore Disaster

The celebrated film critic talks to The Daily Beast about his book that explores why we love disaster movies and apocalyptic scenarios, even when they invade the Oval Office.

Matt Hanson

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TOO BAD

Twitter Accidentally Verifies Fake Cormac McCarthy Account

“My publicist is on my case about my infrequent use of this infernal website,” one tweet read.

Lawrence Ukenye

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‘FRED ASTAIRE OF EDITING’

Sonny Mehta, Head of Knopf Book Imprint, Dead at 77

Credited with signing authors from Toni Morrison to Cormac McCarthy and commissioning bestsellers that included “Fifty Shades of Grey” and “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.”

Barbie Latza Nadeau

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Unreal

How Twitter ‘Killed’ Cormac McCarthy

Major news outlets were fooled into thinking the novelist had died Tuesday—the result of a prankster’s mischief and rush to publish.

Lloyd Grove

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GAME OF CLONES

Stop Calling Me Cormac!

Every author welcomes praise, but what’s a writer to do when readers persist in comparing him to an another author he’s not even that crazy about?

William Giraldi

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