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Gore Vidal2006
Vidal wrote a sharp, elegiac memoir about aging, loss, and the decline of American literary culture by one of its most combative participants.
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“Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.”
Why It Matters
Vidal wrote a sharp, elegiac memoir about aging, loss, and the decline of American literary culture by one of its most combative participants. It is the companion piece to his earlier memoir Palimpsest and captures a writer taking honest stock of what remains. The book matters as one of the last dispatches from a vanishing world of public intellectuals.
Notable Quotes
“Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.”
“Half the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.”