Vidal's 2003 book, Inventing a
Nation, tells the story of America's founding
To get a bit of clutter out of the main Gore Vidal Index, I've created this page to highlight my own writing about Vidal. Feel free to send me a note if you have any thoughts about what I have to say.
Here, then, are links to:
Vidal's 2003 book, Inventing a
Nation, tells the story of America's founding
An essay: Myra Breckinridge & Myron: An
Introduction
An essay:
Bicoastal Relations: Vidal's "Hollywood" Novels
A review of Vidal's novel
The Golden Age
A review of
Gore Vidal: A Biography by Fred Kaplan
A review of Vidal's memoir,
Palimpsest
A review of Vidal's novel
Smithsonian Institution
A review of The
Essential Gore Vidal
These links appear in the main Index, but I've repeated them here to have my own writing all in one place:
FEATURED PAGE:
Thumbnail reviews of Vidal's many books
FEATURED
PAGE: Vidal's comments on
the World Trade Center attack and his book on the subject
FEATURED PAGE: The
famous 1968 Vidal/Buckley debates (hear and see clips or
buy the videotapes)
My
exclusive Gore Vidal interview, conducted in 1991
A look at the family
business of politics for the Gore/Vidal clan
Some
book covers of Vidal in translation
An
essay on Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace:
The Newest World Order
The GV IQ Quiz on Vidal and his work
Some
frequently asked questions about Vidal and his work
My
foreign editions & foreign search list
FEATURED PAGE: See
"Gore Vidal" written in Chinese