Gore Vidal and the bomb

13th May 2006 with 2 Comments

The novelist, Jay Parini, remembers how, as a young man, he was mentored by Gore Vidal.
One summer, I was sitting by his pool in Ravello, working on a piece of fiction. I wondered aloud if it were possible to hold the reader’s attention for about a dozen pages while my characters discussed Kierkegaard’s Christian existentialism. [...]

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