An analysis of how Gore Vidal, as a public intellectual, negotiates the print/screen media divide
"While other literary-minded writers of his generation (Updike, Bellow, Baldwin, Roth) barricaded themselves in bookchat, Gore Vidal took the full plunge into the new media age. There is no comparable figure to suture the two worlds, or two epochs."--Michael Warner, author of "Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life"
