This should be worth reading, whenever it’s published:
The life of Gore Vidal, the prolific and pugnacious man of letters who died in July, will be unfurled in a new biography written by Jay Parini, the novelist and scholar, and published by Doubleday.
Gerald Howard, the Doubleday executive editor and vice president, said on Wednesday that he had acquired the project from Mr. Parini, the author
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An Elegant, Acerbic Man of Letters -- Gone
Wednesday, August 1, 2012 Posted by Unknown at 3:07 PM
“You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?” -- Gore Vidal in Esquire, 2008
Well, you can certainly count me as one. My first exposure to fiction by Gore Vidal -- who died last night in Los Angeles at age 86 -- came during the late 1970s, when Vintage republished all three of the mystery novels he’d penned in
Well, you can certainly count me as one. My first exposure to fiction by Gore Vidal -- who died last night in Los Angeles at age 86 -- came during the late 1970s, when Vintage republished all three of the mystery novels he’d penned in
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