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"I used to be the handsomest man in Rome. Now I'm just another ruin," quipped writer Gore Vidal when he was 50. Or characterizing himself, he once said, "I am exactly as I appear. There is no warm, ...

In 1991, John Updike reviewed "The Impossible H. L. Mencken: A Selection of His Best Newspaper Stories." Updike, apparently, felt that the matter of Gore Vidal's rather unfortunate introduction to ...

Gore Vidal author and playwright died Tuesday at his Hollywood Hills home from complications due to pneumonia. Bookworm host Michael Silverblatt writes: When I learned of the death of Gore Vidal last ...

The following is an excerpt from Passionate Outlier: Gay Writers and Allies on Their Work by Frank Pizzoli and now available from Rebel Satori Press. Subscribe to our newsletter for a refreshing ...

Playwright and novelist Gore Vidal, perhaps best known for his controversial work The City and the Pillar, died on Tuesday at the age of 86. Vidal's nephew Burr Steers tells the Los Angeles Times that ...

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