In a recent interview, Tartt's old schoolmate, Bret Easton Ellis, told the Tacoma (Washington) News Tribune that his colleague has been living, as he put it, "on a plantation in Virginia" with goats, sheep, and "a very young boyfriend." "I must have been drunk when I said that," Ellis now tells this magazine. "Once she moved out of New York, we didn't stay in such close contact. I don't have a clue what the book's about."

She had bought an island off Tahiti and was living as a recluse; she was living on a plantation in Virginia with sheep, goats and a very young boyfriend; she accidentally deleted an entire novel from her computer; she didn't even write The Secret History, it was Bret Easton Ellis in disguise; she was blocked, she was ill, she was dead.

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