Gore Vidal on the left bank of Paris by Clifford Coffin, 1949
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Without attempting to whitewash his subject, Parini, who was friends with Vidal, remains intelligently critical throughout.
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Was his famous detachment all just an act?
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Vanity Fair special correspondent Matt Tyrnauer, who first met the late writer Gore Vidal as Vidal’s editor for this magazine, expounds on the years the author spent in Ravello—the postcard-ready part of Italy’s Amalfi Coast he called his “perch.”
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The moment one sets foot on Vidal’s estate one feels its tonic effect. Hewn out of a mountainside a thousand feet above the Mediterranean, the eight acres of terraced land present staggering views of sea and sky, of tiny coastal towns and toylike dwellings painted in pastel hues that change with every passing hour. The whitewashed villa clings to a craggy cliffface, as if to defy gravity and graphically account for its name—La Rondinaia, The Swallow’s Nest. #gorevidal
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Italo Calvino
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Gore Vidal (1925-2012) American writer and playwright.
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Gore Vidal, the author, playwright, politician and commentator whose novels, essays, plays and opinions were stamped by his immodest wit and unconventional wisdom, died Tuesday.
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Mr. Vidal was an elegant, acerbic all-around man of letters who presided with a certain relish over what he declared to be the end of American civilization.
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Harold Lang on beach with Gore Vidal.
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Gore Vidal (1925 - 2012)
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Gore Vidal, 86
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Gore Vidal's Final Feud
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Living: The Truth About Gore Vidal—Right from Gore Vidal. Article by Curtis Bill Pepper. Photo by Leombruno-Bodi-Lami. Vogue, December 1974. (Page 2/5)
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Anaïs Nin & Gore Vidal, ca. 1946.
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