Gore Vidal (1925–2012) was an American novelist, essayist, and playwright. His many works include the memoirs Point to Point Navigation and Palimpsest, the novels The City and the Pillar, Myra Breckinridge, and Lincoln, and the collection United States: Essays 1952–1992.
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Barbara Epstein (1928–2006)
August 10, 2006
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You Can Look It Up
May 23, 2002
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‘Everything Is Yesterday’
February 28, 2002
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Pearl Harbor: An Exchange
May 17, 2001
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Chaos
December 16, 1999
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A Lost World
December 18, 1997
New York Mosaic: Do I Wake or Sleep, The Christmas Tree, Many Mansions three novels by Isabel Bolton, with an introduction by Doris Grumbach
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Censored in Palestine
October 17, 1996
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Mark Twain’s Reputation
September 19, 1996
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The Angel in the Story
June 6, 1996
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Twain on the Grand Tour
May 23, 1996
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Queen of the Golden Age
March 21, 1996
The Diaries of Dawn Powell, 19311965 edited by Tim Page
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Dah
November 2, 1995
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Love on the Hudson
May 11, 1995
Closest Companion: The Unknown Story of the Intimate Friendship Between Franklin Roosevelt and Margaret Suckley edited and annotated by Geoffrey C. Ward
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A Nineteenth-Century Man
November 4, 1993
The Sixties: The Last Journal, 19601972 by Edmund Wilson, edited with an introduction by Lewis M. Dabney
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The Romance of Sinclair Lewis
October 8, 1992
Main Street and Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis, edited by John Hersey
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Lincoln Addendum
November 21, 1991
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Lincoln Up Close
August 15, 1991
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Maugham’s Half & Half
February 1, 1990
Willie: The Life of W. Somerset Maugham by Robert Calder
A Writer’s Notebook by W. Somerset Maugham
The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
The Narrow Corner by W. Somerset Maugham
Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham
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Rosebud
August 17, 1989
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Remembering Orson Welles
June 1, 1989
Citizen Welles: A Biography of Orson Welles by Frank Brady
The Big Brass Ring a screenplay by Orson Welles, with Oja Kadar
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Every Eckermann His Own Man
October 27, 1988
Selections from the first two issues of The New York Review of Books with an introduction by Elizabeth Hardwick
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Vidal’s ‘Lincoln’: An Exchange
August 18, 1988
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Gore Vidal’s ‘Lincoln’?: An Exchange
April 28, 1988
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Powell’s People
April 14, 1988
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Dawn Powell, the American Writer
November 5, 1987
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Obsession
May 7, 1987
Little Wilson and Big God by Anthony Burgess
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A Mind So Fine
December 18, 1986
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Lessons of the Master
November 6, 1986
Henry James: Literary Criticism Essays on Literature, American Writers, English Writers
Henry James: Literary Criticism French Writers, Other European Writers, The Prefaces to the New York Edition
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Calling Dr. Kubie
February 27, 1986
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On Italo Calvino
November 21, 1985
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Caring for the Bird
August 15, 1985
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Immortal Bird
June 13, 1985
The Kindness of Strangers: The Life of Tennessee Williams by Donald Spoto
Tennessee: Cry of the Heart by Dotson Rader
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Love of Flying
January 17, 1985
The Winged Gospel: America’s Romance with Aviation, 19001950 by Joseph J. Corn
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In Love with the Adverb
March 29, 1984
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Cracking ‘The Golden Bowl’
March 1, 1984
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Return to ‘The Golden Bowl’
January 19, 1984
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‘The Peculiar American Stamp’
October 27, 1983
Novels, 1875-1886 by William Dean Howells
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The Best Years of Our Lives
September 29, 1983
Make-Believe: The Story of Nancy and Ronald Reagan by Laurence Leamer
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The Collector
May 12, 1983
Voices: A Memoir by Frederic Prokosch
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Monkey Business
September 23, 1982
Indecent Exposure: A True Story of Hollywood and Wall Street
by David McClintick
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The Ruins of Washington
April 29, 1982
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Death in the Philippines
March 4, 1982
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Death in the Philippines
December 17, 1981
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Verifying Genocide
October 22, 1981
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An American Sissy
August 13, 1981
Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough
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The Second American Revolution?
February 5, 1981
Cracks in the Constitution by Ferdinand Lundberg
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The Thinking Man’s Novel
December 4, 1980
Ideas and the Novel
by Mary McCarthy
Peacock Displayed: A Satirist in His Context by Marilyn Butler
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This Critic and This Gin and These Shoes
September 25, 1980
The Thirties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period
by Edmund Wilson, edited by Leon Edel
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Scott’s Case
May 1, 1980
The Notebooks of F. Scott Fitzgerald edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli
Correspondence of F. Scott Fitzgerald edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli, edited by Margaret M. Duggan, with Susan Walker
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The Wisdom of the East
February 21, 1980
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Paradise Regained
December 20, 1979
Shikasta by Doris Lessing
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On the Assassins’ Trail
October 25, 1979
Candido: or, A Dream Dreamed in Sicily by Leonardo Sciascia, translated by Adrienne Foulke
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Hard Marker
October 11, 1979
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Secrets of the Shell
June 28, 1979
The Myth Makers: Literary Essays by V.S. Pritchett
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Bert and LaBelle and Jimmy and God
June 29, 1978
This Too Shall Pass by LaBelle Lance, by Gary Sledge
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Rich Kids
February 9, 1978
Privileged Ones Volume V of "Children of Crisis" Robert Coles
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On Rereading the Oz Books
October 13, 1977
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by L. Frank Baum
The Road to Oz
by L. Frank Baum
The Emerald City of Oz by L. Frank Baum
The Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank Baum
The Tin Woodman of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Glinda of Oz by L. Frank Baum
The Making of the Wizard of Oz by Aljean Harmetz
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The Wizard of the ‘Wizard’
September 29, 1977
To Please a Child by Frank Joslyn Baum, by Russell P. MacFall
The Wizard of Oz and Who He Was edited with two introductory essays by Martin Gardner, by Russell B. Nye
The Oz Scrapbook by David L. Greene, by Dick Martin
Wonderful Wizard Marvelous Land by Raylyn Moore, with an introduction by Ray Bradbury
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For the Record
July 14, 1977
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Who Makes Movies?
February 3, 1977
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Art, Sex and Isherwood
December 9, 1976
Christopher and His Kind: 1929-1939 by Christopher Isherwood
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Who Makes the Movies?
November 25, 1976
Some Time in the Sun
by Tom Dardis
A Biographical Dictionary of Film by David Thomson
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Plastic Fiction
October 28, 1976
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The “Excelsior” Affair
August 5, 1976
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American Plastic: The Matter of Fiction
July 15, 1976
Writing Degree Zero and Elements of Semiology by Roland Barthes
S/Z by Roland Barthes, translated by Richard Miller
The Pleasure of the Text by Roland Barthes, translated by Richard Miller
The New Fiction: Interviews with Innovative American Writers by Joe David Bellamy
Come Back, Dr. Caligari by Donald Barthelme
Snow White
by Donald Barthelme
Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts by Donald Barthelme
City Life by Donald Barthelme
Sadness
by Donald Barthelme
Guilty Pleasures by Donald Barthelme
The Dead Father by Donald Barthelme
The Little Disturbances of Man: Stories of Men and Women at Love by Grace Paley
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute by Grace Paley
Omensetter’s Luck by William Gass
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country by William Gass
The Floating Opera by John Barth
The End of the Road by John Barth
The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth
Giles Goat-Boy by John Barth
Lost in the Funhouse by John Barth
Chimera by John Barth
V. by Thomas Pynchon
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
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Freedom When?
June 10, 1976
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The Adams’ Fall: II
April 1, 1976
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Adamses: The ‘Best’ People I
March 18, 1976
The Adams Chronicles: Four Generations of Greatness by Jack Shepherd
John Adams: A Biography in His Own Words edited by James Bishop Peabody
The Character of John Adams American History and Culture by Peter Shaw
Adams: An American Dynasty by Francis Russell
The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family 1762-1784 edited by L. H. Butterfield, edited by Marc Friedlaender, edited by Mary-Jo Kline
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Solved!
March 4, 1976
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Selected Memories of the Glorious Bird and the Golden Age
February 5, 1976
Memoirs by Tennessee Williams
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The Grants
September 18, 1975
The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant edited by John Y. Simon
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A Special Supplement: The Meaning of Vietnam
June 12, 1975
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Emperor of Concrete
October 17, 1974
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
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Real Class
July 18, 1974
A Writer’s Capital by Louis Auchincloss
The Partners
by Louis Auchincloss
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Fabulous Calvino
May 30, 1974
The Path to the Nest of Spiders by Italo Calvino, translated by Archibald Colquhoun
The Baron in the Trees
by Italo Calvino, translated by Archibald Colquhoun
The Nonexistent Knight and the Cloven Viscount
by Italo Calvino, translated by Archibald Colquhoun
Cosmicomics
by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver
t zero by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver
The Watcher and Other Stories by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver, Archibald Colquhoun, and Peggy Wright
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver
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The Kapstein Konnection
February 21, 1974
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The Art and Arts of E. Howard Hunt
December 13, 1973
Give Us This Day by Howard Hunt
The Berlin Ending by E. Howard Hunt
East of Farewell by Howard Hunt
Limit of Darkness by Howard Hunt
Stranger in Town by Howard Hunt
Maelstrom by Howard Hunt
Bimini Run by Howard Hunt
A Foreign Affair by John Baxter
I Came to Kill by Gordon Davis
Be My Victim by Robert Dietrich
End of a Stripper by Robert Dietrich
Angel Eyes by Robert Dietrich
A Gift for Gomala by John Baxter
Where Murder Waits by Gordon Davis
The Coven by David St. John
Compulsive Spy: The Strange Career of E. Howard Hunt by Tad Szulc
An Assassin’s Diary by Arthur H. Bremer
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West Point and the Third Loyalty
October 18, 1973
West Point: America’s Power Fraternity by K. Bruce Galloway, by Robert Bowie Johnson Jr.
Defeated: Inside America’s Military Machine by Stuart H. Loory
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The Fever Breaks
September 20, 1973
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The Ashes of Hollywood II: The Top 6 of the Top 10
May 31, 1973
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The Ashes of Hollywood I: The Bottom 4 of the Top 10
May 17, 1973
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Homage to Daniel Shays
August 10, 1972
Fat Cats and Democrats: The Role of the Big Rich in the Party of the Common Man by G. William Domhoff
Bella! Ms. Abzug Goes to Washington by Bella Abzug
The Washington Pay-off: An Insider’s View of Corruption in Government by Robert Winter-Berger
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Hughes’ Tool
April 20, 1972
Howard, the Amazing Mr. Hughes by Noah Dietrich, by Bob Thomas
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Setting It Straight
February 10, 1972
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Mishima
December 16, 1971
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Eleanor
November 18, 1971
Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship Based on Eleanor Roosevelt’s Private Papers by Joseph P. Lash
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In Another Country
July 22, 1971
Patriarchal Attitudes by Eva Figes
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Mr. Japan
June 17, 1971
Sun and Steel by Yukio Mishima
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Number One
June 4, 1970
Everything you always wanted to know about sex* *but were afraid to ask by David Reuben M.D.
The Hand-Reared Boy by Brain W. Aldiss
The Sensuous Woman
by "J."
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Ambassador Erect
April 9, 1970
Annenberg: A Biography of Power by Gaeton Fonzi
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The Late Show
September 12, 1968
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See It Later
December 7, 1967
Due to Circumstances Beyond Our Control
by Fred W. Friendly
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Pornography
May 12, 1966
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On Pornography
March 31, 1966
The Olympia Reader
edited by Maurice Girodias
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The Writing of E. Nesbit
December 3, 1964
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Appointment with O’Hara
April 16, 1964
The Hat On The Bed by John O'Hara
Elizabeth Appleton by John O'Hara
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Citizen Ken
December 12, 1963
The McLandress Dimension
by Mark Epernay
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Tenacity
February 1, 1963
Here to Stay: Studies in Human Tenacity by John Hersey