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Gore Vidal | Writer Against the Grain
Gore Vidal has been one of America's most distinct voices for more than half a century. The author of more than 20 novels, hundreds of essays, and several plays for screen and stage, Vidal is perhaps best known for the eloquent and witheringly sarcastic political commentatary that has made him a darling of the American left.<br><br> This recording from the 2009 Key West Literary Seminar consists of an hourlong conversation between Vidal and Jay Parini, his literary executor, a poet, biographer, and critic. Vidal discusses the influences on his work as a historical novelist, his views on the American educational system, and his admiration for American figures including Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The presidential contest between Barack Obama and John McCain is also discussed, while George W. Bush, serving his final week in office, is the target of particular scorn. Vidal's litany of complaints accuses the Bush administration of "shredding" the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, and basic tenets of the Magna Carta, while striving "to make lying the national pastime."
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Gore Vidal | Writer Against the Grain
Gore Vidal has been one of America's most distinct voices for more than half a century. The author of more than 20 novels, hundreds of essays, and several plays for screen and stage, Vidal is perhaps best known for the eloquent and witheringly sarcastic political commentatary that has made him a darling of the American left.<br><br> This recording from the 2009 Key West Literary Seminar consists of an hourlong conversation between Vidal and Jay Parini, his literary executor, a poet, biographer, and critic. Vidal discusses the influences on his work as a historical novelist, his views on the American educational system, and his admiration for American figures including Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The presidential contest between Barack Obama and John McCain is also discussed, while George W. Bush, serving his final week in office, is the target of particular scorn. Vidal's litany of complaints accuses the Bush administration of "shredding" the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, and basic tenets of the Magna Carta, while striving "to make lying the national pastime."
KWLS 27 on C-SPAN's Book-TV
Video coverage of the 2009 Key West Literary Seminar has begun to air on cable television channel C-SPAN's Book-TV. Our entire January 10 program will air next <strong>Saturday March 14, 2009, from 10:00 a.m until 3:45 p.m.</strong>; and again (for the nightowls) on <strong>Sunday March 15, from 11:00 p.m. until 4:45 a.m.</strong> The nearly six hours of programming includes Gore Vidal in conversation with Jay Parini, Eric Foner's dazzling lecture "Who Owns History?," and a fascinating conversation between W.E.B. DuBois scholar David Levering Lewis and Michael and Ivy Meeropol, the son and granddaughter of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
Photos from Session One
Here's a selection of photos from Session One of the 27th annual Key West Literary Seminar. See more– by photographers Curt Richter, Oliver Parini, Michael Blades, and Nick Vagnoni– and upload your own photos on our facebook page. Gore Vidal...
Gore Vidal in Key West
Thanks to Greg Needham for permission to reprint the following from his blog. Greg's agency, Needham Fatica, designed our site. Gore Vidal spoke in Key West last night and it was a magnificent event. He was here for the 27th...
A Party at the Tennessee Williams House
The 27th annual Key West Literary Seminar is underway. We got things rolling Wednesday night with a small party for Gore Vidal on Duncan Street, at the former home of Tennessee Williams. Here's a few pictures; you can find more...
<em>Plausible Presence:</em><br>a conversation with Thomas Mallon
In this installment of our ongoing interview series, Thomas Mallon talks about Fellow Travelers, the rumors of Senator McCarthy's own homosexuality, and the current state of historical fiction, including works by Gore Vidal and William Kennedy, both of whom will join Mallon in January 2009 during our 27th annual Seminar, Historical Fiction and The Search for Truth.
Brooks and Unsworth to give Keynotes<br><br>Gala Evening with Gore Vidal Planned
Pulitzer Prize-winning Australian novelist Geraldine Brooks will deliver the John Hersey Memorial Address on Thursday, January 8, 2009, during the first session of our twenty-seventh annual Key West Literary Seminar: Historical Fiction and The Search for Truth. Booker Prize-winner...
Did Gore Vidal father a Conch love-child?
"Possibly," he says, in this recent interview from The Independent. Will they re-unite this January, when Vidal joins us for Historical Fiction and The Search for Truth? It seems, well, unlikely: "There are rumours that you have a daughter...
Gore Vidal, J.F.K., and Tennessee Williams With a Gun
Gore Vidal will be with us next January, and I've begun preparing by reading Sexually Speaking: Collected Sex Writings (1999), an anthology of his previously published work "on sexuality." The title is a bit misleading. The subject of these essays,...
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