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Barney's Rubble

Vincenzo Barney

Literature, history and politics with a dash of Hitchens, a sprinkle of Vidal and a whole lot of rubble.

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    Vanity Fair contributor who broke the story on Cormac McCarthy's secret muse, Augusta Britt. My work has appeared in Vanity Fair, AirMail, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Expat Press.

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