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Gore Vidal’s growing pains
NY POST ^ | By RICHARD JOHNSON with PAULA FROELICH and CHRIS WILSON | PAGE SIX

Posted on 11/17/2002 1:45:55 PM PST by paltz

Edited on 05/26/2004 5:10:25 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

A NEW memoir provides intimate glimpses of some licentious literary lions. In "Do I Owe You Something," due out next spring from Louisiana State University Press, Michael Mewshaw recounts his experiences with the likes of William Styron, Graham Greene, Robert Penn Warren, William Gaddis, Anthony Burgess, Paul Bowles and Norman Mailer. But his most revealing portrait is of Gore Vidal, whom he first met in Italy in the

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1 posted on 11/17/2002 1:45:55 PM PST by paltz
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To: paltz
Ironic that this was submitted by a guy named Richard Johnson.
2 posted on 11/17/2002 1:48:32 PM PST by RightOnline
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To: RightOnline
let's give Mr. Vidal a "Bump" so to say.
3 posted on 11/17/2002 1:52:49 PM PST by paltz
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To: paltz
No wonder he loves Bubba.
4 posted on 11/17/2002 1:55:06 PM PST by Paul Atreides
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To: paltz
"No, it’s retreating," Vidal insisted.


  "Retreating" or beaten back???


5 posted on 11/17/2002 2:51:43 PM PST by Fintan
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To: Fintan
"Retreating" or beaten back???

I was thinking retreating out of fear of what might be asked of it...

6 posted on 11/17/2002 3:07:43 PM PST by IncPen
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To: paltz
This being the center of his life will be the closest he will ever come to adulthood.
7 posted on 11/17/2002 4:13:31 PM PST by RLK
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To: paltz
Gore Vidal is an American Sissy who should pay more attention to his writing than the "junior member of his faculty."

BTW: Shouldn't you have "New" before your screen name?

8 posted on 11/17/2002 6:06:33 PM PST by Clemenza
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To: Clemenza
No, not from the area. My handle really doesn't have much of a history and a good story behind it either.
9 posted on 11/17/2002 7:37:39 PM PST by paltz
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