No Substance #206: The Scandal of Cormac McCarthy

Last week, Vanity Fair dropped an article about Cormac McCarthy. Well, sorta. It was about Augusta Britt, the 64 year old woman who met McCarthy when she was 16, and began a relationship with him when she was 17. At the time, McCarthy was 43.

I am pretty ambivalent about McCarthy. He writes nicely, but I have only liked one book, Blood Meridian. I do adm…