The Man Who Wrote Burr

[nightdog_barks]

Literary lion Gore Vidal is dead at 86.

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[mer_duff]

Very sad. I loved his take on history - the Narratives of Empire books, of course (Burr is one of my all-time favourite novels - so cheeky!) - but also Julian and Creation.

I was actually just going through some old New York Times Magazines the other day and found a "Questions For" with him that was wonderfully outrageous. Final exchange - "Well, it was a great pleasure talking to you." "I doubt that."

[nightdog_barks]

I remember reading Burr when it came out and being so astonished (and thrilled) at its skewering of Historical Personages and Our Founding Fathers. :D

And omg that quote! I am beaming.