SEAN BEAUDOIN's latest novel is Wise Young Fool. His stories and articles have appeared in numerous publications including the Onion, the San Francisco Chronicle and Spirit, the in-flight magazine of Southwest Airlines. www.seanbeaudoin.com.
I still don’t see we’re going to do without Gore Vidal, except I guess we have for a while already. He was in pretty bad shape before he died, could no longer walk, and he wasn’t writing and wasn’t even managing to inject his venom through interviews. Although I always enjoyed Vidal’s venom — from a distance.
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So glad you dug Saguaro. I hope to Mell chains himself needlessly to rock novels, as I have.
Did your CD player get fixed?
I still don’t see we’re going to do without Gore Vidal, except I guess we have for a while already. He was in pretty bad shape before he died, could no longer walk, and he wasn’t writing and wasn’t even managing to inject his venom through interviews. Although I always enjoyed Vidal’s venom — from a distance.