Flipboard Culture Desk on Nostr: Sometimes a bad piece of writing spawns a really excellent one. Case in point: The ...

Sometimes a bad piece of writing spawns a really excellent one. Case in point: The Vanity Fair profile of Cormac McCarthy's muse, Augusta Britt. The piece, written by first-time VF contributor Vincenzo Barney, "and edited by his worst enemy in the world," according to Defector's Albert Burneko, has been ripped apart for tortured, overblown sentences such as: *This is the Augustal style: equipoise between the love of laughing at oneself and soliloquy." Burneko's rejoinder gives some details about Britt's amazing life and influence on McCarthy, and asks: "Can someone please write normally about this fascinating woman?" The first link is Burneko's response; the second is the original article. Both may be paywalled.

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