> “He’s a filthy, low writer,” Vidal says of White. “He likes to attack
> his betters, which means he has a big field to go after.”
> [Edmund White responds]
> [Vidal] drinks a lot. [He] wanted me to rewrite it to show a lot
> more sympathy toward McVeigh, but I thought that would lose about 99
> percent of the audience.
Doesn't that say it all?
> I don't approve of killing hundreds of people
> in the name of some abstract ideal.
Wonder what White thinks about Mr Obama?
> [Vidal is] an
> awful, nasty man.... he's always like this
> seething volcano and you're always wondering when he's going to go off.
If you're not like that, you're not paying attention.
> I don't know what he's famous for anywhere, really, because I think
> those historical novels are complete works of taxidermy.
People will be reading Vidal with pleasure when White is a name only grad students know.
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