This morning, a hoax Twitter account erroneously proclaimed that 82-year-old, Pulitzer-winning author Cormac McCarthy had perished.
https://twitter.com/AKnopfNews/status/747793851201556480
USA Today picked up the news, which spread on Twitter before being thoroughly debunked.
BREAKING: We were totes first to report news based on a fake Twitter account.
UPDATE: We might've gotten that wrong. pic.twitter.com/0TLtVpe9fO— Nick Bilton (@nickbilton) June 28, 2016
Cormac McCarthy is alive and well and still doesn't care about Twitter.
— Penguin Random House (@penguinrandom) June 28, 2016
The Internet’s paroxysm of relief was perfect for the morbidly prolific author of The Road, Country for Old Men, Suttree, Child of God and other blood- and irony-bathed works of literary brilliance.
Cormac McCarthy at the Pearly Gates
I'm here
So you are
Which of us is talking right now
No way of knowing
/knife fight— jason (@JasonKirkSBN) June 28, 2016
joyce carol oates reported the fake death of cormac mccarthy so quickly you have to wonder what's going on under the surface there
— #rachelsyme (@rachsyme) June 28, 2016
Don't believe the Cormac McCarthy news. Death fears him. Read Blood Meridian for proof.
— tconn (@tconn) June 28, 2016
Like Cormac McCarthy would die without an announcement written in blood on bone in the ash of his fathers bones in the atavistic violence of
— SPENCER HALL (@edsbs) June 28, 2016
https://twitter.com/ditzkoff/status/747802216631787522
Contrary to scurrilous rumors, Cormac McCarthy is alive and well and hiding in your daughter's closet with a length of piano wire.
— rob delaney (@robdelaney) June 28, 2016
Saddened, outraged, but not surprised to learn that Cormac McCarthy has been murdered by Hillary Clinton.
— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) June 28, 2016
Cormac McCarthy will never die but when he does he will be buried next to the quotation mark
— Joel Pavelski (@joelcifer) June 28, 2016
Cormac McCarthy is alive. And coming for your children like a company of mounted clowns, death hilarious. #BloodMeridian
— John Gustafson (@gustastuff) June 28, 2016
So we’ll conclude as Blood Meridian does: “He never sleeps. He says that he will never die. He dances in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite. He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.”
Keep on dancing, Mr. McCarthy.
