“It is a lucky thing for the American moralist that our country has always existed in a kind of time-vacuum: we have no public memory of anything that happened before last Tuesday.”
Gore Vidal, Gore Vidal’s United States, Essays 1952-1992
Gore Vidal, Gore Vidal’s United States, Essays 1952-1992
Gore Vidal; Photograph by Clifford Coffin
Sidebar: Check out Jonathan Raban's fascinating review of Gore Vidal's United States, Essays 1952-1992 that appeared in the Los Angeles Times. There is a lot to unpack. The opening paragraph is either a dig or a tribute (but perhaps both?):
"Gore Vidal the novelist's best character is Gore Vidal the essayist. Beside him even Myra Breckenridge seems a pale creation, and this great fat book, chronicling 40 years of the essayist's adventures, is like a lively picaresque novel in reverse."
"Gore Vidal the novelist's best character is Gore Vidal the essayist. Beside him even Myra Breckenridge seems a pale creation, and this great fat book, chronicling 40 years of the essayist's adventures, is like a lively picaresque novel in reverse."
Image Credit: Clifford Coffin, Photographs from Vogue, 1945 to 1955
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