{"id":18005,"date":"2012-07-31T22:13:27","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T05:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/?p=18005"},"modified":"2021-04-06T08:08:34","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T15:08:34","slug":"goodbye-gore-vidal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2012\/07\/31\/goodbye-gore-vidal\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Gore Vidal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gore Vidal died &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/features\/books\/jacketcopy\/la-jc-writer-gore-vidal-86-has-died-20120731,0,3728239.story\">he was 86. <\/a> (LA Times)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/08\/01\/books\/gore-vidal-elegant-writer-dies-at-86.html?pagewanted=all\">Prolific, Elegant, Acerbic Writer<\/a> (Nytimes) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gorevidalnow.com\/\">Early reactions of his passing from his homepage <\/a><\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<p>Italo Calvino on Gore Vidal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/101855421\/Italo-Calvino-Imagining-Vidal\"> Imagining Vidal <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gore Vidal on<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/archives\/1985\/nov\/21\/on-italo-calvino\/?page=1\"> Italo Calvino <\/a><\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<p>Gore Vidal at (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.waggish.org\/2012\/gore-vidal-in-retrospect\/\">Waggish<\/a>) <\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Goreyoungvidal1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Goreyoungvidal1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Goreyoungvidal1\" width=\"475\" height=\"324\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18006\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Goreyoungvidal1.jpg 475w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Goreyoungvidal1-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/tsutpen.blogspot.com\/2005\/08\/toms-influences-5before-and-after.html\">photo via <\/a><\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenfield-sanders.com\/image\/gore-vidal-kurt-vonnegut-and-norman-mailer\">Gore, Vonnegut and Mailer here.<\/a><\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<p>Paris Review interview &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/3917\/the-art-of-fiction-no-50-gore-vidal\">Gore Vidal <\/a><\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<p>Documentary Gore Vidal<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gore Vidal&#039;s Gore Vidal: A BBC Omnibus Documentary (1995)\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n-foBp6qvdA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<p>Anais Nin <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/AnaisNInGoreVidal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/AnaisNInGoreVidal.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"AnaisNInGoreVidal\" width=\"450\" height=\"326\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18019\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/AnaisNInGoreVidal.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/AnaisNInGoreVidal-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a> and Gore<br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vogue.com\/culture\/article\/vd-books-gore-vidal-snapshots-in-historys-glare\/\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1aBestGorevidal-e1475441261411.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1aBestGorevidal-e1475441261411.jpg\" alt=\"1abestgorevidal\" width=\"575\" height=\"324\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29205\" \/><\/a>\t<\/p>\n<p>NY Magazine <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2015\/07\/best-of-enemies-buckley-vidal.html\">(Best of Enemies) <\/a><\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<p>Life in Feuds: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2015\/aug\/14\/gore-vidal-gripped-a-nation\">How Gore Vidal gripped a nation..<\/a><\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<p>On Gay Marriage<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Since heterosexual marriage is such a disaster, why on earth would anybody want to imitate it?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>On Obama<br \/>\nHe has a total inability to understand military matters. He\u2019s acting as if Afghanistan is the magic talisman: solve that and you solve terrorism. \u2026 He f***ed [health care] up. I don\u2019t know how because the country wanted it. We\u2019ll never see it happen\u201d  (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/its-not-that-gore-vidal-hates-gays-marriage-he-just-hates-americans-who-want-it-20091001\/#ixzz22JkkNBem\">via)<\/a> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gore Vidal died &#8211; he was 86. (LA Times) Prolific, Elegant, Acerbic Writer (Nytimes) Early reactions of his passing from his homepage Italo Calvino on Gore Vidal Imagining Vidal Gore Vidal on Italo Calvino Gore Vidal at (via Waggish) photo via Gore, Vonnegut and Mailer here. Paris Review interview &#8211; Gore Vidal Documentary Gore Vidal &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2012\/07\/31\/goodbye-gore-vidal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Goodbye Gore Vidal&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1,107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-culture","category-occupy-wall-st"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}