In Bed with Gore Vidal by Tim Teeman

The Private World of Gore Vidal

The Leonard Lopate Show | Nov 25, 2013

Tim Teeman talks about Gore Vidal’s private life. He interviewed many of Vidal’s closest family and friends, including Claire Bloom and Susan Sarandon, and surveyed Vidal’s own personal archive in his book In Bed with Gore Vidal: Hustlers, Hollywood, and the Private World of an American Master.

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