Thursday, 2 August 2012
Gore Vidal Dies at 86; Prolific, Elegant, Acerbic Writer
Truthdig was proud to be the home of Gore Vidal's essays over the last six years. In a tribute to his legacy, we'll be rerunning his great works. In this essay, written in 2009, Vidal wants us to accept that the U.S. is no longer aI grew up on Gore Vidal. As a teenager in Virginia, I knew him first as a TV personality, then as an essayist and finally as a novelist. There was nobody else like him. On television he was unflappable. On the page he was startlingly funny,
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