Norman Mailer and his literary reputation were both larger than life. KCRW's Bookworm Michael Silverblatt pays tribute to the man and his writing with Arianna Huffington, Gore Vidal, Michael Tolkin ...

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 ...

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 ...

(Reuters) - Writer Gore Vidal, whose acerbic observations on politics, sex and American culture in novels and essays made him one of the best-known American authors of his generation, died on Tuesday ...