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View From the Diners Club (Date?) Reflections upon a sinking ship (Date?) The City and the Pillar (1948) -- #17 of the 100 Best Gay and Lesbian Novels. Two Sisters (1970) An Evening With Richard Nixon (1972) Homage to Daniel Shays; Collected Essays, 1952-1972 (1973) Kalki (1978) Matters of Fact and of Fiction (1978) Three by Box: The Complete Mysteries of Edgar Box (1978) Messiah (1980) "When a mortician appears on television to declare that death is infinitely preferable to life, he sparks a religious movement that quickly leaves Christianity and most of Islam in the dust. Now available in a Penguin Classic edition, Gore Vidal's deft and daring blend of satire and prophecy, first published in 1954, eerily anticipates the excesses of Jim Jones, David Koresh, and the Heaven's Gate suicide cult." -- Ingram
A Thirsty Evil: Short Stories (1981) Second American Revolution and Other Essays (1982)
Julian (1984) Lincoln: A Novel (1984) with Edgar Box Duluth (1985) The Judgement of Paris (1986) Williwaw (1986) Myra Breckinridge/Myron; Myron (1987) -- #23 of the 100 Best Gay and Lesbian Novels (Myra Mreckinridge). Armageddon Essays 1983-1987 (1990) At Home Essays 1982-1988 (1990) Washington, D.C: A Novel (The American Chronicle Series) (1991) Decline and Fall of the American Empire (The Real Story Series) (1992) Screening History (1992) Live from Golgotha/the Gospel According to Gore Vidal (1993) United States: Essays, 1952-1992 (1993)
Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years (Pluto Middle Eastern Studies) (1994) with Israel Shahak America First!: Its History, Culture, and Politics (1995) with Bill Kauffman Palimpsest: A Memoir (1995) At Home (1997) Visit to a Small Planet (1997) 1876 (1998) Empire: A Novel (Vidal, Gore, American Chronicle.) (1998)
The Smithsonian Institution: A Novel (1998)
The American Presidency (1998) The Best Man (1998) Burr: A Novel (The American Chronicle Series) (1999)
Gore Vidal Sexually Speaking: Collected Sex Writings (1999) by Gore Vidal, Donald Weiss, ed.
Hollywood: A Novel of America in the 1920s (1999) Gore Vidal: Sexually Speaking: Collected Sex Writings (1999) The Golden Age (2000)
The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 (2001) Creation: Restored Edition (2002)
Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta (2002) Essays in which America's "imperial ambitions" and corporate interests in Eurasia's mineral wealth are explored.
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace (2002)
Clouds and Eclipses: The Collected Short Stories
(2006) -- Nominated, 2006 Lambda Literary Award for Male Fiction
Celebrated for more than fifty years as a world-renowned novelist,
essayist, and political figure and commentator, Gore Vidal is less
known for the exquisitely crafted short fiction he wrote as a young
man. Like the work of Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams, his
stories have been overshadowed by the author’s triumphs writing in
other genres. Still, Vidal’s short fiction offers us a portrait of the
young artist in the 1940s and 1950s. His subtle and comic tales often
center on adolescence and homosexual themes. In Three Stratagems, a
middle-aged gay man encounters a male prostitute while vacationing in
Key West. In The Zenner Trophy, the star athlete at an elite boys
school is expelled for sexual relations with a classmate. These
stories were gathered along with five others into a 1956 volume, A
Thirsty Evil, and for decades were thought to comprise Vidal’s
complete short fiction.
Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir
(2006)
In Point to Point Navigation, the celebrated novelist,
essayist, critic, and controversialist Gore Vidal ranges freely over
his remarkable life with the signature wit and literary elegance that
is uniquely his. The title refers to a form of navigation he resorted
to as a first mate in the Navy during World War II. As he says, “As I
was writing this account of my life and times since Palimpsest,
I felt as if I were again dealing with those capes and rocks in the
Bering Sea that we had to navigate so often with a compass made
inoperable by weather.” It is a beautifully apt analogy for the
hazards (mostly) eluded during his eventful life and for the way this
memoir proceeds—far from linear but always on course.
From his desks in Ravello and the Hollywood Hills, Gore Vidal travels
in memory through the arenas of literature, television, film, theater,
politics and international society where he has cut a broad swath,
recounting achievements and defeats, friends and enemies made (and on
a number of occasions lost). Among the gathering of notables to be
found in these pages, sketched with a draftsman’s ease and evoked with
the panache of one of our great raconteurs, are Jack and Jacqueline
Kennedy, Tennessee Williams (the “Glorious Bird”), Eleanor Roosevelt,
Orson Welles, Johnny Carson, Greta Garbo, Federico Fellini, Rudolph
Nureyev, Elia Kazan, and Francis Ford Coppola. Some of the book’s most
moving pages are devoted to the illness and death of his partner of
five decades, Howard Austen, and indeed the book is, among other
things, a meditation on mortality written in the spirit of Montaigne.
Elegiac yet vital and even ornery, Point to Point Navigation is
a summing-up of Gore Vidal’s time on the planet that manages to be at
once supremely entertaining, endlessly provocative, and thoroughly
moving.
Other:
See also:
At Ground Zero: Young Reporters Who Were There Tell Their Stories (2002),
Edited with Sam Erman
AIDS, While The World SLeeps: The First Twenty Years of the Global AIDS Plague
(2003), Edited by
Chris Bul
Collection includes the most important writing on AIDS by Amber Hollibaugh,
Barbara Smith,
Cindy Patton, Donna Minkowitz,
Gabriel Rotello, Gore Vidal,
Jeffrey Escoffier, Jeffrey Schmaltz, Judith Valente, Larry Kramer,
Mark Schoofs, Michael Bronski,
Michael Callen, Michelangelo Signorile,
Paul Monette, Randy Shilts
, Susan Sontag, Tony Kushner,
and many others.
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