NONFICTION
Released: June 17, 2008
"Nearly six decades' worth of eloquent bile, dispensed with unmatched craft and wit."
NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 7, 2006
"Though Vidal's memories from encounters in DC, New York, Hollywood and elsewhere remain intact, the wit that animates the best of his oeuvre is largely absent, leaving a voice at best affecting and at worst hectoring."
In this successor to the first volume of his memoir,
Palimpsest (1995), prolific novelist/essayist/gadfly Vidal mixes mournful minor keys among his usual trumpet blasts against what he regards as an American emporium run by oil men and religious fanatics.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 19, 2006
"While occasionally truncated, these stories showcase Vidal's stylistic authority."
Eight elegantly styled but listless stories of gay life from the late 1940s to the mid-'50s.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 1, 2004
"Vitriolic, bilious, venomous, and a lot of fun. Until, that is, you realize Vidal's not kidding."
America's favorite contrarian waxes wroth and righteous blustery in this gathering of new and recycled aperçus concerning elections past and present.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 1, 2003
"A pleasure for those convinced of the present ruling elite's deep-seated flaws and deeper evils, and tasty food for thought even for the doubtful."
Another deliciously ill-tempered screed from veteran gadfly Vidal (
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace, p. 398, etc.), perhaps our fiercest homegrown critic of American imperialism in general and the current administration in particular.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 5, 2001
"Vidal's gossip can feel as stale as his (very dated) political concerns, but few today have what he still displays in abundance: the desire, the intelligence, and the wit to continue living as a true man of letters."
