To him, the world was both subject and spectacle. Yet he remained, always, an author difficult to categorize.Gore Vidal, who died Tuesday night at age 86, was a fixture on the American cultural landscape for so long that it seems hard to imagine our literature without him. From 1946, when his first novel, "Williwaw," became one of the first to evoke World War II in fiction, through the publication of his final memoir, "Snapshots in History's Glare," in 2009, Vidal was ubiquitous: a writer and a social critic, a talk show guest and raconteur. Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Times'
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She was a longtime contributor of Commentary magazine, where her husband Norman Podhoretz was editor. Continue reading at The Washington Post
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Solnit’s ‘Orwell’s Roses’ is the story of a life that doesn’t read like a typical biography. Continue reading at The Washington Post
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Granta Books has signed a new book from social critic and political activist Barbara Ehrenreich on the topic of mortality. Editorial director Bella Lacey signed UK and Commonwealth rights excluding Canada in Old Enough to Die from Karolina Sutton at Curtis Brown on behalf of Kris Dahl at ICM. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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