CHRISTINE SMITH
LINKS TO SOME EXCELLENT VIDAL RELATED WEBSITES AND INTERVIEWS: HARRY KLOMAN's Gore Vidal Index -- An extensive online resource regarding Vidal's career and life, highly recommended for its thoroughness. SCOTT ISEBRAND's Gore Vidal Pages are excellent. Much content to read here...one of the best Vidal websites on the web. Other excellent informative Vidal articles and interviews: TruthDig's March 2, 2006 interview with Gore Vidal - On The Oscars (and naturally so much more...) Part 1. Gore Vidal on fascism, terrorism and wartime propaganda. Part II of Truthdig’s interview with the award-winning novelist. April 14, 2006 at TruthDig - Vidal's essay "America and Empire" which is the full-text foreword to Robert Scheer’s new book: “Playing President: My Close Encounters with Nixon, Carter, Bush I, Reagan, and Clinton--and How They Did Not Prepare Me for George W. Bush" Gore Vidal's "Dig" on TruthDig -- his essay "President Jonah." Discussion/blog regarding Gore Vidal's State of the Union (delivered Jan. 31, 2006) at TruthDig. Gore Vidal's Jan. 31, 2006 State of the Union: "Let the Powers That Be Know There is Something Called We the People of the U.S. and all Sovereignty Rests in Us, " delivered on Democracy Now. Audio interview with Gore Vidal taped February 25, 2006, aired on Politically Direct (Air America) Feb. 26. Divided into two 1-hour parts. Informative and enjoyable...Vidal's sharing of memories is very interesting...also his comments upon Bush in this interview are excellent. The Erosion of the American Dream, "It's Time to Take Action Against Our Wars on the Rest of the World" by GORE VIDAL...This is a transcript of Gore Vidals's March 12 interview by Mark Davis on Dateline, SBS TV Australia, March 14, 2003, published on the CounterPunch website. Excellent interview. On Point Radio's Feb. 3, 2003 broadcast of Jack Beatty's interview with Gore Vidal. LISTEN WITH REAL, WINDOW OR QUICKTIME MEDIA PLAYERS. Transcript--Interview with Gore Vidal by Michael March, March 29, 2001, The Guardian--excellent! Gore Vidal on war for oil, politics-free elections, and the late, great U.S. Constitution - The Undoing of America, on Bellaciao website. Again, an excellent article. Gore Vidal talks with Don Swaim about satire, watching movies, blasphemy, freedom of religion, politics, and his controversial novel, Live from Golgatha, in this 1992 interview. Listen with RealPlayer--audio approx. 35 minutes.
Gore Vidal talks with Don Swaim about satire, watching movies, blasphemy, freedom of religion, politics, and his controversial novel, Live from Golgatha, in this 1992 interview. Listen with RealPlayer--audio approx. 35 minutes.
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