The Gore Vidal Letters
Bill Kauffman, a Reason staffer in the 1980s, describes and quotes liberally from his longtime correspondence with the late Gore Vidal. The tone of Vidal's letters, Kauffman writes, "was often light self-mockery, unless the subject was, say, Arthur Schlesinger Jr." My favorite quote is Vidal's kinder-than-expected (though still mocking) assessment of Newt Gingrich: "he's the blueprint for the 1st (post-Lincoln) dictator -- New Age, spacey, Fun."
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This guy was a first class douche and we are sick of hearing about him and the greasy pan drippings of his brain.
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Well, I'd be okay if we just talked about his novels, a number of which were great.
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Silence! I'm speaking for everyone. Maybe I should use CAPSLOCK...
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Only in all caps and bold.
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ALSO WE WANT MORE ARTICLES ABOUT STRIPPERS!
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There can never be enough articles about strippers.
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I have an honest question: what is the difference between Hitchens, Vidal and Bill Maher? Why are the other two beloved while the latter isn't?
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I don't believe Hitchens and Vidal ever pretended to be libertarians while defending every Team Blue expansion of government power.
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The first two, it should be noted, are loved by groups with almost zero overlap. The latter is not, I suspect, because he never produced any worthwhile writing, unlike the former two.
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The first two, it should be noted, are loved by groups with almost zero overlap
I was refering to Reason actually.
The latter is not, I suspect, because he never produced any worthwhile writing, unlike the former two
I always thought that Reason would love Bill Maher if he was more erudite.
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Gladstone---"Reason" has not an institutional voice, merely individual ones, and I think you'll find that there is a split between those of us here who dug Hitch and who dug Vidal.