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August 01, 2012 12:18 PM Gore Vidal, 1925-2012 by Roger Kimball, from Roger's Rules So Gore Vidal, once-famous novelist and preening, latitudinarian controversialist, has died, aged 86, of complications from pneumonia, the disease that in bygone years was called the old person’s friend. I never had much time for Vidal — I found his novels unreadable (Burr, Lincoln) where they were not comically repellent (the jejune pornography of Myra [...] Click here to read the entire article » |
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