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Gore Vidal’s growing pains
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| 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.
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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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posted on
11/17/2002 1:45:55 PM PST
by
paltz
To: paltz
Ironic that this was submitted by a guy named Richard Johnson.
To: RightOnline
let's give Mr. Vidal a "Bump" so to say.
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posted on
11/17/2002 1:52:49 PM PST
by
paltz
To: paltz
No wonder he loves Bubba.
To: paltz
"No, its retreating," Vidal insisted.

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"Retreating" or beaten back??? |
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posted on
11/17/2002 2:51:43 PM PST
by
Fintan
To: Fintan
"Retreating" or beaten back???I was thinking retreating out of fear of what might be asked of it...
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posted on
11/17/2002 3:07:43 PM PST
by
IncPen
To: paltz
This being the center of his life will be the closest he will ever come to adulthood.
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posted on
11/17/2002 4:13:31 PM PST
by
RLK
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?
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posted on
11/17/2002 6:06:33 PM PST
by
Clemenza
To: Clemenza
No, not from the area. My handle really doesn't have much of a history and a good story behind it either.
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posted on
11/17/2002 7:37:39 PM PST
by
paltz
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