num_pages: 460
description: Gore Vidal--novelist, playwright, critic, screenwriter, memoirist, indefatigable political commentator &amp; controversialist--is America's premier man of letters. No other living writer brings more sparkling wit, vast learning, indelible personality &amp; provocative mirth to the job of writing an essay. This long-needed volume comprises some 24 of his forays into criticism, reviewing, political commentary, memoir, portraiture, &amp;, occasionally, unfettered score settling. Among them are such classics as The Top Ten Best-Sellers, Dawn Powell: The American Writer; Theodore Roosevelt: An American Sissy, Pornography, &amp; The Second American Revolution. Edited &amp; introduced by Gore Vidal's literary executor, Jay Parini, it will stand as one of the most enjoyable &amp; durable works from the hand &amp; mind of this vastly accomplished &amp; entertaining immortal of American literature.
language: English
title: Selected Essays
publisher: Little Brown & Company