The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal

By: Gore Vidal, Jay Parini - editor

Narrated by: Jeff Cummings

Gore Vidal - novelist, playwright, critic, screenwriter, memoirist, indefatigable political commentator, and controversialist - is America’s premier man of letters. No other writer brings more sparkling wit, vast learning, indelible personality, and provocative mirth to the job of writing an essay.

This long-needed volume comprises some twenty-four of his best-loved pieces of criticism, political commentary, memoir, portraiture, and, occasionally, unfettered score settling. It will stand as one of the most enjoyable and durable works from the hand and mind of this vastly accomplished and entertaining immortal of American literature.

©2008 Gore Vidal (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Critic reviews

“Jeff Cummings, who narrates several of Vidal's other nonfiction works, frees these "occasional essays" from Vidal's voice, and his overriding personality, and highlights their prose excellence, grace and wit, and fine writing.” —AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award Winner

Jeff Cummings was born to narrate Gore Vidal

He absolutely inhabits Vidal. Having listened to Vidal's memoirs, Cummings is better than Vidal himself. The essays are so bright and well written it hardly matters whether he is writing of current affairs from the 60's or post 9/11. Absolutely brilliant. We could use him around today for sure