The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal

This irresistible sampler of Gore Vidal’s essays presents a lifetime spent thwarting the dunces of the world with his acid-tipped pen and monumental intelligence. This collection is of more delight to those interested in his literary leanings, as excepting an essay on Egyptian dictator Nasser, the f......more

Say what you will about the WASPs, America's former pseudo-aristocracy, at least interesting figures occasionally emerged from their slime. There's no way Jeff Bezos or Mark Zuckerberg will spawn someone as brave and cutting as Gore Vidal.......more

Deliciously bitchy and wonderfully eclectic. Vidal's prose crackles and spits in all directions, from French Postmodernism to Bush's police state, but it is always both entertaining and incisive, and never less than a delight to read. Strongly recommended to all but right-wing nutters and Sky-god fo......more

Back in June, when Gore Vidal was doing press for his latest book, “The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal,” the octogenarian public intellectual talked with Deborah Solomon of the New York Times Magazine. They discussed – or rather, Solomon attempted to discuss – a wide range of topics related to the au......more

A well curated selection of essays, mostly on literature but also on politics, sex, porn, and the train wreck of American life. The editor has managed to cull through thousands of articles ("book chat" to Mr. Vidal) and present a selection that has arc and progress. Vidal makes reference to previous......more