Dallas Morning News: Biography: ‘Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal,’ by Jay Parini
Biography: ‘Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal,’ by Jay Parini
In November 2013, a little over a year after Gore Vidal died, observers were surprised to discover that the writer had left his entire estate to Harvard University, cutting out friends, relatives, and ...
Gore Vidal, one of America’s greatest literary renaissance men and the master of the acerbic witticism, once said to an interviewer near the end of his life, “Anyone stupid enough to worry about how ...
Queerty: “He liked rough trade. That was his thing”: Unpacking four decades of friendship with Gore Vidal
“He liked rough trade. That was his thing”: Unpacking four decades of friendship with Gore Vidal
SFGate: ‘Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal,’ by Jay Parini
The best parts of “Empire of Self” are the brief interludes between chapters, when we are in the moment with Gore Vidal and his friend Jay Parini. There we can see, by turns, the imperious Gore and ...
Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born Eugene Louis Vidal; – ) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his epigrammatic wit. His novels and essays interrogated ...
MSN: The sad decline of Gore Vidal, America’s most acerbic writer and fearsome feuder
Gore Vidal said that he hoped to be remembered as “the person who wrote the best sentences of his time”. It was a typically vainglorious boast from an author whose finest writing remains overshadowed ...
The sad decline of Gore Vidal, America’s most acerbic writer and fearsome feuder