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Yesterday, it was announced that the celebrated writer, Cormac McCarthy, had passed away. McCarthy was this impossibly hardscrabble throwback to decades past when there was a whole class of male American writers who had the prose of sculptors but lifestyles barely above vagabond. He wrote gritty stories of gritty people living even grittier and often br…

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