639 - Vincenzo Barney (Cormac McCarthy and Sudden Fame)

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

Chris Ryan

Society & Culture, Arts

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2025

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Young guy writes a Substack piece about his favorite author, Cormac McCarthy. It gets a few reads, and turns out that one of those readers knows old Cormac and actually reads him the piece. In fact, she’s known and loved old Cormac for 40+ years. She corresponds with the young guy and eventually decides he’s the right person to tell her story, which is a love story that began almost half a century ago, when she was a homeless 16 year-old girl who randomly met a not yet famous author in his 40s sitting by the pool at a run-down motel in New Mexico. Crazy, wild love story/lifelong friendship commences. Young guy writes this forbidden love story, publishes it in Vanity Fair in prissy, easily offended 2024, and all hell breaks loose.

Vincenzo’s Substack is here. Vincenzo’s professor’s Substack is here.

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0:00.0	Radio Mano, Papa Chango Hey, you crazy kids. How's it going out there?
0:31.5	It's Monday, February 10th. I'm coming to you from Christone, Colorado. It's about to snow.
0:40.4	Wednesday, we're driving up to Denver. Anya's going to go visit her family in New York. I'm going to go visit mine in L.A.
0:46.3	For a few days, I'm going to be seeing Simon Rex for brunch, which is going to be awesome.
0:52.3	Not going to have a chance to record a podcast with him, probably, because it's just going to be awesome. Not going to have a chance to record a podcast with him probably
0:56.2	because it's just going to be a quick visit between buddies.
1:01.2	And then I'm going to, hopefully I'm going to have dinner with Jake Johansen
1:06.0	and his lovely wife, Belinda, that evening.
1:08.9	Maybe I'm going to propose to Jake that I come over a little
1:13.0	early and maybe we can record a podcast catching up with him. He's an amazing guy. If you've
1:18.9	listened to this podcast for a while, you know who he is. And even if you haven't listened to
1:23.5	this podcast, you may know who he is. He's been on the David Letterman show. That was like his thing.
1:29.3	He was on the David Letterman show 28 times, I think, doing stand-up. He's probably, obviously,
1:35.6	one of David Letterman's favorite stand-up comedians. He's fantastic, and he's so smart and so
1:41.4	cool, and I really like hanging out with him.
1:45.9	So I'm going to see them and go see my aunt in Topanga, whose house did not burn down.
1:51.5	And go see my other aunt, whose house did burn down in the Pacific Palisades.
1:56.5	So it's going to be a bit of a post-apocalyptic visit to L.A. briefly.
2:02.6	Then I'm back for a couple days.
2:05.4	Then I turn around, drive back up to Denver, and I fly to Barcelona for, what is it,
2:13.0	eight days, seven days, something like that.
2:16.2	I'll be in Barcelona, seeing some friends there and doing some bureaucratic stuff related to my
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