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A light goes out.
Cormac McCarthy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Road” and “No Country for Old Men,” has died at 89 of natural causes. His son, John Francis, confirmed the news to the press.
I’m a late admirer of McCarthy. Recent times have…
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