Topic: Gore Vidal

Fulford: Of gods and opera

There are people who can see a wonderful stage performance and leave it at that. Perhaps some members of the audience reacted this way when the...

Day Three at Blue Met: Literary Lions and Moving Memoirs

This evening, when Gore Vidal was asked about the positive side of the media, he replied: "Satisfaction from the media? I may be eccentric, but I'm...

R.I.P. Owen Laster

Owen Laster, the former head of the William Morris Agency's worldwide literary division who spent his entire career at that agency until he retired...

Julian

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Yes, creative writing can be taught. But would the degree have put the seal of "creative writing taught" upon him? You do realize that creative writing can be untaught. Yes, creative writing can be taught. Gore Vidal, on the other hand called ...
MANY of you reading this will have written, be writing or plotting their novel and I can't help you sell it through the web. I am tempted to say it is the Great Australian Novel, also the GAN, but a better ...
Author Edmund White can't keep his hands out of his pants, no matter what the subject matter. In Terre Haute he manages to manipulate characters based on Timothy McVeigh and Gore Vidal into a flirtatious dalliance with McVeigh showing skin and ...
Gore Vidal, a prolific writer stated in an interview not long ago, " Instead of having them read we give them video games and have them babysitted by the TV set. yet in the U.S. reading is probally the most underachieved subject ...
Victims set on fire by spurned lovers or the homeless unfortunates torched by psychotic teens as a misguided attempt at do-it-yourself urban renewal perish from the identical effect that killed Medieval heretics burned at the stake: My father?s regrets came to ...

Television's 11 Longest-Running Game Shows

Quiz shows first became popular in the age of radio, but when television was introduced, TV game shows became inextricably woven into American pop...