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He slept with Kerouac, hung out with Jackie O and feuded with Mailer. He's the last surviving giant of American literature's golden age. So why is Gore Vidal still so sensitive about his reputation?
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The Robert Chalmers interview
Seventeen years have passed, I remind Gore Vidal, since he told a
reporter: "This is the last interview I shall ever give. I am in the
departure lounge of life." "So where are you now? Tray table in the
upright position, footrest stowed, taxiing towards the runway?"
The writer gives me a mutinous look. "How do you know that I
didn't leave? Actually, I'm more fearful of airplanes than I am of
my own mechanism, because I know how to run it.
I've...
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 "Talk of the Nation (NPR)")
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BOOK CLUB OF THE AIR: GORE VIDAL'S "PALIMPSEST"
Talk of the Nation (NPR)
; ... great civilization. SUAREZ: Gore Vidal on his book Palimpsest. The Book Club of the Air selection for August. Bumped by breaking news into early September, but who knows, maybe that gave you enough time to finish. Novelist Louis Auchincloss is with us from New ...
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America's Gore Vidal.(Gore Vidal's America)(Book review)
The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
; Gore Vidal's America by Dennis Altman Polity Press (Cambridge, UK) 216 pages, $19.95 IT IS HARD TO KNOW what history will make of Gore Vidal. At eighty, he has had a career perhaps more varied than any other living American writer. His feuds with Norman Mailer in the 1950's and 60's seem as quaint
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Gorefoolery His new novel is a zany advertisement for himself, but two other books - one by him, one about him - suggest Gore Vidal may be the most underrated writer of his time.
The Boston Globe
; LIVE FROM GOLGOTHA The Gospel According to Gore Vidal. Random House. 229 pp. $22. GORE VIDAL Writer Against the Grain. Edited by Jay Parini. Columbia University Press. 321 pp. $29.95. SCREENING HISTORY By Gore Vidal. Harvard University Press. 96 pp. Illustrated. $14.95. Robert Taylor attended camp
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Gore Vidal, aloof in art and in life
Chicago Sun-Times
; Gore Vidal A Biography. By Fred Kaplan. Doubleday. $35. In 1947 American literature's prewar Hemingwayesque machismo seemed suddenly overshadowed by three young Southern WASPs, each unrepentantly gay in art as in life. Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote and Gore Vidal had become celebrities more
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BLOOD AND GORE BOOKS GORE VIDAL'S RANCOUR - TOWARDS TRUMAN CAPOTE, TENNESSEE WILLIAMS AND HIS MANY OTHER ADVERSARIES - KNOWS NO BOUNDS. BUT HE INSISTS HE'S NOT PARANOID: 'I'M DIFFERENT IN THAT I HAVE ENEMIES. VERY REAL ONES,' HE TELLS JOHN PRESTON
The Sunday Telegraph London
; MIDWAY THROUGH MY CONVERSATION WITH GORE VIDAL I ask him if he has ever in his life felt socially inferior to anyone. Down the phone line from Los Angeles comes an incredulous popping sound followed by a familiar honeyed drawl. 'That really would be the trick of the week, wouldn't it? Inferior? No,
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