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Writers

Gore Vidal

Politics

The Best Years of Our Lives

Memories of “Hollywood’s most grinding bore,” Ronald Reagan.

Gore Vidal New York Review of Books Sep 1983 25min Permalink

The Meaning of Timothy McVeigh

On corresponding with the Oklahoma City bomber.

Gore Vidal Vanity Fair Sep 2001 50min Permalink

Arts Movies & TV

Remembering Orson Welles

The great director always refused to get liposuction.

Gore Vidal New York Review of Books Jun 1989 25min Permalink

Best Article

Some Jews & The Gays

Vidal on Midge Decter, homophobia and a proposed alliance between Jews and gays.

Gore Vidal The Nation Nov 1981 Permalink

Arts

Gore Vidal: The Art of Fiction No. 50

INTERVIEWER: You once said the novel is dead. VIDAL: That was a joke.

Gerald Clarke, Gore Vidal The Paris Review Sep 1976 40min Permalink