NYT > Books' Journal -- Day [entries|friends|calendar] NYT > Books [ website | NYT > Books ] [ userinfo | scribbld userinfo ] [ calendar | scribbld calendar ]

Books of The Times: Review: In ‘Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal,’ Jay Parini Catalogs More Than [18 Oct 2015|09:28pm] http://rss.nytimes.com/c/34625/f/640314/s/4ac61dd4/sc/15/l/0L0Snytimes0N0C20A150C10A0C190Cbooks0Creview0Ein0Eempire0Eof0Eself0Ea0Elife0Eof0Egore0Evidal0Ejay0Eparini0Ecatalogs0Emore0Ethan0Eilluminates0Bhtml0Dpartner0Frss0Gemc0Frss/story01.htm http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/19/books/review-in-empire-of-self-a-life-of-gore-vidal-jay-parini-catalogs-more-than-illuminates.html Vidal gets what he wished for: To be taken seriously as a novelist. Unfortunately, this means that page after page is spent synopsizing his work. post comment

navigation [ viewing | October 18th, 2015 ] [ go | previous day|next day ]