Gore Vidal: On Writing

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  • Опубликовано: 23 фев 2013
  • Gore Vidal discussed his writing life with Jay Parini. Among the topics they discussed were his book on Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Americans' unfamiliarity with their past. Mr. Vidal responded to questions from audience members. Gore Vidal is the author of more than twenty books, including Lincoln, Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace, and Palimpsest: A Memoir. He has also written five plays, numerous screenplays, and two hundred essays. He won the 1993 National Book Award for United States: Essays, 1952 - 1992.
    Gore Vidal: Writer Against The Grain was edited by Jay Parini. "Writer Against the Grain" was a session of the 2009 Key West Literary Seminar, held at the San Carlos Institute.

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  • @donluchitti
    @donluchitti 11 лет назад +26

    The Internet needs more Gore Vidal footage. Thanks Ethan!

  • @paineite
    @paineite 5 лет назад +18

    May all the gods bless and rest Gore Vidal. Thank you for posting this.

  • @goodboybuddy1
    @goodboybuddy1 5 лет назад +5

    What a great old man. Thanks for making this available.

  • @Martha7ish
    @Martha7ish 8 лет назад +48

    Keep praying for us &our resque.5:46am

  • @shenlongeldragon
    @shenlongeldragon 3 года назад +20

    En este video encontrarás los comentarios de Martha Gagner

  • @Martha7ish
    @Martha7ish 10 лет назад +15

    Sorry Uncle I have to finish this posting to HartFord Hospital as their lives are in danger. I meant to say if I get out of this & can get rehired their than they will have protection from too many to count. They want me rescued. I just got done with my grandmother Jackie Kennedys book Wind in the Willows by GR MA HA ME-Grandma has me.She NEVER FORGAVE "NEW DEAL PEOPLE" from taking her husbands life. I don't forgive them for stealing my daddy JFK,Jr. If it was the one on the mini movie he changed for the better to raise me in Athinos Greece. Thank you Uncle for letting me use your website.

    • @valielorien4584
      @valielorien4584 3 года назад +9

      TRADUCCIÓN: " “Lo siento tío, tengo que terminar esta publicación en HartFord Hospital porque sus vidas están en peligro. Quería decir que si salgo de esto y puedo ser recontratada, tendrán protección de demasiados para contar. Quieren que me rescaten. Acabo de terminar con el libro de mi abuela Jackie Kennedy Wind in the Willows de GR MA HA ME. La abuela me tiene. Ella NUNCA PERDONÓ a la "GENTE NUEVA" de quitarle la vida a su esposo. No los perdono por robarme a mi papá JFK, Jr. Si era el de la mini película, él cambió para mejor para criarme en Athinos Grecia. Gracias tío por permitirme usar Tu sitio web."

    • @Diego-solorio
      @Diego-solorio 3 года назад

      hey you are fine martha

    • @JuanPablo-ht1vf
      @JuanPablo-ht1vf 3 года назад

      Pongan Martha gagner en el buscador

    • @Gamermax-RisasYDiversion
      @Gamermax-RisasYDiversion 3 года назад

      @@valielorien4584 Gracias por la traducción
      Sé inglés, pero si ha está la traducción directamente, es mejor xD

    • @Gamermax-RisasYDiversion
      @Gamermax-RisasYDiversion 3 года назад

      @@JuanPablo-ht1vf Hmm....

  • @rsr789
    @rsr789 11 лет назад +3

    Thank you for posting!

  • @Martha7ish
    @Martha7ish 10 лет назад +45

    Thank you I believe for responding to me Uncle Vidal.France is happy that "YOU" atleast aknowledge me after the aftermath of Caroline Schollberg taking my mother,Jacquelines Onassis jewelry in her purse w/her before she bunkers w/other so called KENNEDY women. Even France,God Bless them has my DNA proving I am BOVIER KENNEDY ONASSIS & HUGHES thru no fault of my own.Martha your REAL niece who looks like Jacqueline Bovier Kennedy Onassis.

    • @truper9961
      @truper9961 3 года назад +19

      Martha te encontre, que haces aqui

    • @miguelx8731
      @miguelx8731 3 года назад +2

      @@truper9961 X2

    • @valielorien4584
      @valielorien4584 3 года назад +18

      TRADUCCIÓN “Gracias por responderme, creo, tío Vidal (NT: el de este video). Francia está feliz de que "TÚ" al menos me conozcas después de las secuelas de que Caroline Schollberg (NT: única hija con vida de John F. Kennedy y Jacqueline Kennedy) se llevara a mi madre, las joyas de Jacquelines Onassis, en su bolso antes de que ella se refugiara con otras mujeres de KENNEDY. Incluso Francia, Dios los bendiga, tienen mi ADN que demuestran que soy verdaderamente BOUVIER KENNEDY ONASSIS & HUGHES sin culpa. Martha, tu VERDADERA sobrina que se parece a Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis.”

    • @lukorez
      @lukorez 3 года назад

      Comentario de hace 7 años

    • @Diego-solorio
      @Diego-solorio 3 года назад +1

      hey you are fine martha

  • @LANCSKID
    @LANCSKID Год назад +1

    A man of great intellect and insight … not just an academic talking head.

  • @lash8360
    @lash8360 3 года назад +8

    Porfin nadie latinoamericano solo solito aqui

  • @marysalisbury9270
    @marysalisbury9270 7 месяцев назад +1

    A gem of literature!

  • @not2tees
    @not2tees 11 лет назад +2

    Here I am trying to finish reading my library book, Food Of The Gods by Terence McKenna, before the due date arrives, and Ethan keeps uploading these must-see videos. Woe is me, says me omni-curious mind.

    • @junbuyo
      @junbuyo 3 года назад +1

      hi Martha secondary

  • @wally1452
    @wally1452 5 лет назад +2

    I am so happy I lived during the time I had with Gore Vidal...an amazing writer, brilliant mind, he like JFK with that ability to keep so much history in mind. He was great. I wish we had more like him. We have nobody I can think of now that can speak truth to power. How damn sad it is our nation sunk to the bottom as it has.

  • @Martha7ish
    @Martha7ish 10 лет назад +20

    Thank you for listening. I repeat sold into captivity since I was 4 yrs of age they try to tell me I am an age advanced 17-I thought I was 19. Interpol investigators w/FBI, my Uncle Donnie Brasco.I know you'll be too afraid to speak to me as well. Anyways thanks for listening Uncle?Martha last biological daughter of John & Jackie Kennedy.The "IT" with no name who has NEVER been to a grade or grammar school but did college better than my identical sisters.Thanks for listening.Martha 6-15-1996

  • @ThePlayboyLen
    @ThePlayboyLen 7 лет назад +30

    Anecdotal at best, but here goes. . .
    It seems that the fewer the views per entry on RUclips (of GV in particular), the more intriguing the content. I wonder why.

    • @37Dionysos
      @37Dionysos 6 лет назад +3

      I hate to agree that you're right. And it's a dangerous warning for all of us.

    • @indrekkpringi
      @indrekkpringi 5 лет назад +1

      The answer is obvious.
      water seeks its own level.
      There are different kinds of water.
      There is the lowest sewer scum....
      And then there is the purest water in the world
      which you must search for in the most hidden places on Earth.
      Vidal is a poisoned source of information.

    • @matthewtrevino525
      @matthewtrevino525 5 лет назад +2

      Noticed the same thing. This made me think about this concept of how Propagandist and Powe elite make everything sacred for the citizen to prevent us from changing the aspects of the temple that we don't like.

    • @indrekkpringi
      @indrekkpringi 5 лет назад

      ken kennedy
      Read my book
      It's MUCH better

    • @josephanastasi7840
      @josephanastasi7840 5 лет назад +1

      Serious topics are seldom popular.

  • @jadezee6316
    @jadezee6316 4 года назад +2

    ihave read vidals 1100 page book of essays...and one understands the amount of knowledge required to write a good one.,...well gore vidal was and is americas Greatest essayist,

  • @Martha7ish
    @Martha7ish 10 лет назад +15

    sister a doll that looked like her the entire summer he spent w/her.It was made by the Buckingham Palace for her.She carried that doll everywhere.Then at the end of 4 mos she was told to leave it behind for the servants daughter.She screamed all the way to the airport for that doll that was taken from her.The surrogate really didn't like the daughters of the Marthas Project.She said that we all looked like Jackie not her.Gonzalo Pina Talamantes almost made my sister kill herself because he

  • @jansmiths8629
    @jansmiths8629 8 лет назад +5

    utterly captivating.
    i treasure our time at the villa honey.
    we still have your shirt....

  • @Robespierre1758X
    @Robespierre1758X 4 года назад +2

    Gore Vidal mentions Tennessee Williams as America's greatest play write yet omits Eugene Oneill and yet it was Williams who stated "O'Neill gave birth to American theater and died for it "

  • @MissPerriwinkle
    @MissPerriwinkle Год назад +1

    jus read ur bio on gore, mr parini.....awesome !

  • @sjr7822
    @sjr7822 5 лет назад +4

    Note that, In 2009 Gore Vidal stated "We have no media we can trust, anybody can buy it" seek 19:41

    • @carryclass6807
      @carryclass6807 4 года назад

      how much did the liberals pay?

    • @kiwitrainguy
      @kiwitrainguy 2 года назад +2

      @@carryclass6807 Not as much as Rupert Murdoch.

    • @corra7
      @corra7 5 месяцев назад

      Sad

  • @Martha7ish
    @Martha7ish 10 лет назад +11

    always was watching change infront of him& take baths with him watching since she was 13.When she got a boyfriend cameras showed he was always walking in on her in all stages of dress.If she got sick & went for exams cervical&breast the surrogate mother always sent Gonzalo in with her who by law when a Dr was seeing a minor had to have a parent present so to her it just made it worse.ALL people who knew her said she said her son Brandon saved her life.She wanted to live for him.Seth was her baby

  • @charleslynching
    @charleslynching 6 лет назад +3

    I do not know how Gore Vidal could have said Tennessee Williams was America's greatest play wright when Tennessee Williams said himself "Eugene O'Neill gave birth to the American theater and died for it"

    • @blessOTMA
      @blessOTMA 5 лет назад

      I agree with Williams

  • @vivianoosthuizen8990
    @vivianoosthuizen8990 5 лет назад +4

    The problem of the citizens and their lack of knowledge about the governments and their doings is simply not having enough time . A working class person is kept so busy earning a living and sitting in traffic and the worry of day to day struggle etc. That is how these politicians get away with it all. In any case man just don’t care about anything anymore and when some conscious thought bother them there’s always the bottle and before long they have something to laugh about. It’s the mothers that’s worrying about their children and their future.

    • @mattja52
      @mattja52 5 лет назад +3

      Busy earning a living and sitting in traffic and worrying about day to day struggle? It's amazing that people can find time for coitus and not about what politicians are doing to them?

  • @sjr7822
    @sjr7822 5 лет назад +4

    I think those that admired the Bush family, got over it, I don't hear or see many people still praising the Bush Family, especially those supporting Trump.

  •  4 года назад +2

    3:32!

  • @unapersonamas4253
    @unapersonamas4253 3 года назад +3

    Martha Martha estas aquí?

  • @ALAN-vi7cj
    @ALAN-vi7cj 3 года назад +1

    Si aca esta martha

  • @Jvesparza
    @Jvesparza 3 года назад

    martha martha many things worry and disturb you, being so only one is necessary

  • @Martha7ish
    @Martha7ish 10 лет назад +8

    My Daddy is Superman who married my mother Cristina Onassis & was spliced into a fertilized egg already spliced in w/ Hughes&Katherine Hepburn egg by Rockerfeller Research& Design by Howard Hughes money&Kaiser WilhelmII aka Guermo Obregon of Stutgradt then Nicaragua. The abdicated King wanted to marry Margarite but she thought he worked to much w/ the poor on their ranch to be the one for her.She was ALWAYS jealous of Jackie Kennedy&having to raise her daughters. The abdicated King gave my 2 yr

  • @HypermarketCommodity
    @HypermarketCommodity 5 лет назад

    Why i don't like the framing of the first book in the start.

  • @ttacking_you
    @ttacking_you 2 года назад

    Mailer seemed pretty upset with him on Cavett

  • @Larkinchance
    @Larkinchance 5 лет назад +11

    Gore Vidal expected too much from Barack Obama..

    • @mattja52
      @mattja52 5 лет назад +7

      He disappointed me too, a Lite Republican, continuing Bush, jr's policies to the extreme. Yes, we can, Cheshire cat grinning snake. His brother, Uncle Joe Biden wants to run in 2020 elections and the beat goes on.

    •  4 года назад +2

      @@mattja52 I'm from Brazil and I hope Sanders get elected.

    • @michaelberry6443
      @michaelberry6443 4 года назад

      @ :(

    • @s.solomon6534
      @s.solomon6534 3 года назад

      @@michaelberry6443 :(

    • @phillipalexander2701
      @phillipalexander2701 2 года назад

      Mr. Obama made the promises, and failed the follow up on them.

  • @sjr7822
    @sjr7822 5 лет назад +1

    The heads of Government changes but the agenda of the government stays

  • @marckpin2091
    @marckpin2091 3 года назад +2

    Marthaaaaa

  • @Accountskgnks
    @Accountskgnks 3 года назад

    Martha te encontre

  • @josevargas7014
    @josevargas7014 3 года назад

    Encontré a Martha 😃

  • @thedolphin5428
    @thedolphin5428 Год назад

    Vidal called them "Bush and Bushette".
    A famous Australian commentator called them Presidents Bush and Shrub.

  • @Martha7ish
    @Martha7ish 10 лет назад +1

    Caroline Schlossberg was adopted. The brown eyed JFK,Jr from the Wendy Leigh book was Bovier Lawford.The Blue eyed one playing superman who hated Jackie is my daddy Bovier Kennedy who nanobotted himself&left me to die for the Onassis& Hughes money. Marines&Navy raised me along w/ Tuskegees.Friends of Da's &Jackies in France help me.I am poor but strong in the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ. Anyways write me on my blog page I'll see it. Or at 3205 Elizabeth Lake Rd. Waterford, Michigan McDonalds

    • @junbuyo
      @junbuyo 3 года назад

      hi martha

  • @LasNalgasDeDaRo
    @LasNalgasDeDaRo 3 года назад

    O
    L
    S
    .

  • @Martha7ish
    @Martha7ish 9 лет назад +10

    Anyways I ahd to finish blogging here. Anger, Denial, Acceptance then survivor. After the death here of mine & Gerard Butler baby of 1.5 years in age by Grace Centers of Hope & some McDonalds employees on April 25, 2015 by illegal use of Black Raven where is my husband? The countries tell me that the Talamantes Family had Buckingham Palace Drivers Id since 1992 but no Martha's ever lived there?What deals did Obama,George Bush,Sr, Clintons & Kennedys make here?

  • @Martha7ish
    @Martha7ish 10 лет назад

    Seth Kelley was taken by Alquieda to Sam Usefs grandmothers house in Royal Oak. I was in the same house where 100s of Marines & law enforcers were killed in June of 2009.I am the Sole Survivor of that house.Megan his wife was-President of Lebanons niece was also taken.Caparos Italian Den some McDonalds here in Michigan w/mob bribing&NeoNatzis in this state have been killing many.The countries decided the country will be shared by Pres. Kim & Vladimir Putin.Both knew Pres.og Bahamas nephew.

    • @junbuyo
      @junbuyo 3 года назад

      hi martha

  • @Diego-solorio
    @Diego-solorio 3 года назад +1

    vengo por dross y por martha

  • @Martha7ish
    @Martha7ish 10 лет назад

    before she died but I know that she is in heaven now dancing with my grandfather Nelson Mendella & Uncle Bobby but not Da & not Howard Hughes & not Jacqueline until the Lord my God gives me a full 24 hrs w/each of them when my time really comes fer naugh leavin yer bairn with any protection.Semus McGillacuddy as her code name was or LUCY of Charlie Brown was on my sisters dog who I named the FITZGERALD.She said Simon Cowell was a betrayer as well as former Pres.of Ireland paid by England Royals

    • @junbuyo
      @junbuyo 3 года назад

      hi martha

  • @roc7880
    @roc7880 4 года назад

    I wonder what would Gore say about the Trump team if he believed Bush II was lying?

    • @bobbywimsy6741
      @bobbywimsy6741 2 года назад

      Lying goes far back in.American and world history. Or better put, the struggle between truth and lies. Trump only continued it to the point of personal insanity which he tried to project on to the entire Nation. Gore Vidal always had an eye for humanized historical truth, void of hagiography.There is also the pessimist, the cynic, which can end, analytically in futility. What a conversation Gore and the real Uncle of our Country- Benjamin Franklin, would have had. Or may still in Eternity.

  • @Martha7ish
    @Martha7ish 9 лет назад +7

    ALWAYS for you my God & Countries Marie Francis Woertemberg Hepburn Hughes Butler June 15, 1998 stamped toiday 7/17/2015 1:19pm

    • @blackdean9983
      @blackdean9983 3 года назад

      Are you a bot?

    • @belenburgos3415
      @belenburgos3415 3 года назад

      Hi Martha, i wanna help you, PLEASE if you have any problem just tipe the word "RED" just like that "RED" tipe it in any comment, i try to help you Martha

  • @mottthehoople684
    @mottthehoople684 9 месяцев назад

    All countries have amnesia otherwise there wouldn't be borders and countries just one planet

  • @347Peggy
    @347Peggy 11 лет назад +1

    Eugene O'Neil was far too dull and 'talky' (even my English prof agreed with me on this... sometimes like a lecture.

  • @joebearhughes
    @joebearhughes 5 лет назад

    T

  • @Martha7ish
    @Martha7ish 10 лет назад

    My mother being given putossin by Privi Peredes Senior Peredes-CEO of SOLVAY MEXICO.I will build a Marthas Cathedral &place the bodies of my sisters of the Marthas Project-keep my sister the childrens mother safe. I will not see here raped anymore after a DELIBERATE DRUG INDUCED COMA. My sisters grandson was kidnapped by Grace Centers of Hope-Calvin from the Liz Lake McDonalds &EREBUS-where he was kept & made to play a goblin-he is only 3 & kept from his father Brqandon for 6 mos.Tuskegee dying

    • @junbuyo
      @junbuyo 3 года назад

      hi martha

  • @ttacking_you
    @ttacking_you 2 года назад

    The big complaint I've heard about roosevelt is that he actually tried to go for a f fourth term and he was already kind of sick as it was. That and being a liberal democrat

  • @kulombergamason5295
    @kulombergamason5295 3 года назад

    THE GAME

  • @77lassiter15
    @77lassiter15 9 лет назад +1

    "Tennessee Williams was by far our best play write" ???????????? ever hear of Eugene O'Neill ? Such nonsense I put Williams behind Clifford Odets and Miller

  • @jacobhoppen1964
    @jacobhoppen1964 8 лет назад

    Gore Vidal is Berning in Nirvana

  • @meggg947
    @meggg947 3 года назад +2

    Pa Martha la re bibis

    • @meggg947
      @meggg947 3 года назад

      Pa Martha la re bibis

    • @meggg947
      @meggg947 3 года назад

      Pa Martha la re bibis

    • @meggg947
      @meggg947 3 года назад

      Pa Martha la re bibis

    • @meggg947
      @meggg947 3 года назад

      Pa Martha la re bibis

    • @meggg947
      @meggg947 3 года назад

      Pa Martha la re bibis

  • @xorealslowmd
    @xorealslowmd 7 лет назад

    The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam and the Crusades. Cue the worlds largest eye roll.

    • @GoldenAgeSk8Video
      @GoldenAgeSk8Video 4 года назад

      Allen Milton...Yea, because “Islam is a religion of PEACE!!” Cue the world’s largest eye roll to your comment 🙄.

  • @joebearhughes
    @joebearhughes 5 лет назад

    The moderator/interviewer? was rude and disorganized, Vidal was older and less connected, he was slacker

  • @franek_izerski
    @franek_izerski 4 года назад +1

    Why is the interviewer wearing trainers on a platform like that! FOR GOD'S SAKE! No class or respect.

  • @kikeheebchinkjigaboo6631
    @kikeheebchinkjigaboo6631 6 лет назад +3

    Gore Vidal was a boring old queen