Excellent ca. 1985 interview wit’ The Great Gore, somehow unpublished ’til now! Enjoy, Tom http://www.brooklynrail.org/2012/09/express/a-life-of-reflection-invention-gore-vidal-1925-2012 P.S. Manifest Destiny, referred to several times in the text, was eventually published as Empire, in 1987! In the end it was not the concluding book in Gore’s American History series (aka “Narratives of Empire”), that honor …
As a writer I consider him the greatest American stylist since at least WWII, if not since his beloved Henry James, as well as our finest essayist by quite a stretch. But I think his astonishing RANGE was most impressive of all–here was a fearless and fearsomely talented artist who conquered Television during its Golden …
Brilliant, unpredictable, hilarious and wholly American – I’ll miss Gore Vidal! – Jim Demetre