From Vanity Fair's James Wolcott:
It is with pride, honor, and a slight buzzing in the ears that I can announce that I have written and published my first Kindle Single for Amazon: The Gore Supremacy, a fast-moving meditation on the life and times and major battles of Gore Vidal, who met his stoic fate on July 31st.
Available on Amazon.com, here's the summary:
Novelist, essayist, memoirist, playwright, screenwriter, actor, sexual liberationist, traitor to his class, balloon-popper of the pious and pretentious, the country’s last true man of letters (they should now retire the title), Gore Vidal belonged to the Greatest Generation of American authors, and was the last great one to go. (He died on July 31st, 2012 at the age of 86.) The triumphant arc of Vidal’s literary career wasn’t solely a mastery of language, though that never hurts. Handsome, poised, slim, charismatic, able to hold his own in verbal fisticuffs without losing his imperious cool, Vidal was the premiere star author of his generation, the one who elevated the role of talk-show guest to a command performance--a theatrical event. He brought the electronic crackle of the TV screen to his prose and the tactical precision of his prose to combat debate on TV. His near-violent altercations on camera with William F. Buckley, Jr. and Norman Mailer are the stuff of YouTube legend and the secret to The Gore Supremacy.
(Photo: Gore Vidal with Italian director Federico Fellini.)
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