Lannan Readings & Conversations

Gore Vidal

with Michael Silverblatt
Wednesday May 9 2007


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Downloadable Podcast of this event is available

Gore Vidal (right) in conversation with Michael Silverblatt at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Wednesday, May 9, 2007. Photo: Don Usner

Gore Vidal. Photo by Don Usner Gore Vidal is the author of twenty-two novels, five plays, many screenplays, more than two hundred essays, and the critically lauded, Palimpsest: A Memoir. Vidal's United States (Essays 1952-1992) won the 1993 National Book Award. In its "American Masters" series PBS said "Vidal's lineage in American literature may be traced back to Henry James, the sophisticated American from the upper echelons of society who mingles with European sophisticates, and Mark Twain, the raw humorist and critic of American empire."

Gore Vidal Bio and Cross Links


Gore Vidal. Photo by Don Usner Michael Silverblatt is the host of the literary talk show Bookworm, which he created in 1989 for KCRW 89.9 FM in Santa Monica. He has participated in numerous Readings & Conversations programs, interviewing Gore Vidal, Susan Sontag, Salman Rushdie, and A.S. Byatt, among others. Bookworm airs locally on KSFR 101.1FM every Sunday at 1:30pm.

Michael Silverblatt Bio and Cross Links