An article that's making the rounds.

[uberreiniger]

Gore Vidal: Portrait of an American Douchebag.

For a guy who dismisses other writers as self-glorifying ol' Gore sure seems to have an inflated view of his own opinions. I don't disagree with him on things like Afghannistan or Conservativism, but I have serious issues with his entire attitude, not to mention his palling around with Timothy McVeigh.

Comments

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

I think he's a lot like Orson Scott Card and Harlan Ellison: a decent novelist who has managed to extend his notoriety beyond his chosen literary sphere by being shocking and opinionated. Card and Ellison being genre writers don't make a lot of waves, but because he's the Great Gore Vidal, Master of the Great American Novel screeds like this get press time.

[sravakavarn.livejournal.com]

Very trure. Although you could sort of say the same sort of thing about me, although I am not important (yet).

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

Fine, you be Vidal and I'll be Ellison, although hopefully with fewer lawsuits :)

[sravakavarn.livejournal.com]

I want to be Ellison, but you don't hate gay people enough to be Card. Vidal would never tolerate the fact that even though I am pretentious literary poet, I still love horror and sci-fi genre fiction. And write it.

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

Well at the rate I'm going I'm more likely to be Kilgore Trout than anyone else and strangely, I'm okay with that too.

[sravakavarn.livejournal.com]

Why Kilgore Trout?

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

I anticipate being poor and obscure but hopefully people in bizarre, apocalyptic scenarios will derive great meaning from my work :)

[sravakavarn.livejournal.com]

Oh. I could only dream!