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Gore Vidal (pronounced /ˌgɔər vɪˈdɑːl/ or /vɪˈdæl/) (born October 3, 1925) is an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, essayist, short story writer and politician. Early in his career he wrote the ground-breaking The City and the Pillar (1948) that outraged mainstream critics as one of the first major American novels to feature unambiguous homosexuality.

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Source: The Province Daily News

TORONTO â Zipping to global hot spots on private jets, dropping more money in one shopping spree than most people make in a year, and playing with exotic pets in luxurious homes was commonplace in author Kevin Kwanâs social circles during his chil ...
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Lives less ordinary

Source: San Francisco Bay Guardian

The man himself poses in Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia. FRAMELINE Each year Frameline's program vividly reflects issues that of late have seemed most urgent in the LGBT community — for many years, for instance, there was an understa ...
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John Horne Burns: The writer Hemingway and Vidal envied

Source: Salon

To comprehend and describe the experience, Burns turned to a different literary form than the novels he dashed off every summer: letters. They were pithy and playful, revealing an eye for the telling detail. And, at least as far as Burns was concerned, ...
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Source: Conversational Reading

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Source: Front Porch Republic

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Source: Discover Magazine

Select Category Select Category Administration Agriculture Anthroplogy Ask a ScienceBlogger Barbarism Behavior Genetics Bioethics Biology Biotech Blog Books Cognitive Science Creationism Culture Data Analysis Demographi ...
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PW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of June 17, 2013

Source: The Huffington Post

First published on Publishers Weekly This week, a dark and odd fable, a must-read short story collection, and a YA throwback to the likes of Logan's Run. Plus: Neil Gaiman's latest. In The House upon the Dir ...
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Source: Salt Lake Tribune

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