Book Club of the Air: Gore Vidal's 'Palimpsest'
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GUEST: Louis Auchincloss, author of The Atonement and Other Stories [Houghton Mifflin, 1997] , and president of the American Academy of Arts. In Palimpsest, Gore Vidal turns his gift for storytelling to a recollection of the first 40 years of his life. Vidal grew up a member of Washington, D.C., society and in Palimpsest recalls the bluebloods, authors, actors and politicians who came in and out of his world. Join Ray Suarez in the virtual living room to talk about a memoir full of anecdotes, juicy gossip and a twist.
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