One day at a time is my path.
RIP Gore Vidal
Treat yourself to 200 years of American history, with Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series:
1876, Burr, Lincohn, Empire, Hollywood, Washington, DC, The Golden Age.
When I heard the news of his passing tonight and went back to look at the list of his books, I was amazed at the shear volume of his work as well as the number of pages of his novels I read of his great stories during much of my life!
Sean Tully
5:17 pm on Thursday, August 2, 2012
From the Boston Globe:
"“It is not enough to succeed,” Mr. Vidal once said. “Others must fail.” On another occasion, asked to comment on the death of the author Truman Capote, he replied, “Good career move.” Such deep-dish frankness, a Vidal trademark, helped earn him high-profile antagonists. Among the foremost objects of his disaffection, besides Capote, were The New York Times, Robert F. Kennedy, William F. Buckley Jr., Norman Mailer, and the neoconservative writers Norman Podhoretz and Midge Decter."
http://www.boston.com/culturedesk/2012/08/01/gore-vidal-celebrated-and-debonair-writer-commentaor/JIf9aii53Q4vg5WHhtfFIJ/story.html
Quantity of books does not equal quality. I was never a Gore Vidal fan. He did not like Robert F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy is my all time personal hero. While I won't be as crass about the death of Vidal as he was about the death of Capote, I suppose I'll leave it at that.