American author and celebrity Gore Vidal has passed away -- and you can find an incredible number of articles, obituaries, tributes, dissections, etc. at all your favorite literary (and seemingly every other) sites.
I've barely read anything of his -- Creation, when it came out -- though I did happen to buy a copy of The Judgment of Paris at the local Goodwill a month ago (and though I only paid a dollar for it, that's still more than the 75 cent cover price of that 1965 Signet paperback ...); the handy pocket size as well as the back-cover copy ("the irreverent odyssey of a young American in Europe's pleasure playgrounds, and his seduction by three erotic women of an older, more pagan world") were just too good to pass up.
I've barely read anything of his -- Creation, when it came out -- though I did happen to buy a copy of The Judgment of Paris at the local Goodwill a month ago (and though I only paid a dollar for it, that's still more than the 75 cent cover price of that 1965 Signet paperback ...); the handy pocket size as well as the back-cover copy ("the irreverent odyssey of a young American in Europe's pleasure playgrounds, and his seduction by three erotic women of an older, more pagan world") were just too good to pass up.