I've seen links to this Gore Vidal Q&A all week, but I only just now got around to reading it. The only way he could've been more curmudgeonly would have been to start slinging around the word "whippersnapper". Yowza.
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Tee hee. Some people can pull off irascible. At least he's not spouting off how all YA books but his own are crap. (Or maybe I should say, at least he's not looking at YA as something anyone can do so he might as well jump on the bandwagon and make some extra dough.)
Posted by: Brian F. | 19 June 2008 at 09:34 AM
Oh, yeah, he wins. Ever since reading it, I've been telling library patrons to look it up and read it because it was so hilarious.
Posted by: Leila | 20 June 2008 at 07:10 AM