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Novelist, essayist, memoirist, playwright, screenwriter, professional, intimate liberationist, traitor to his course, balloon-popper of the pious and pretentious, the country's last true man of letters (they must now retire the name), Gore Vidal belonged to the Greatest Generation of American creators, and was the last great someone to go. (He perished on July 31st, 2012 at age 86.) The triumphant arc of Vidal's literary profession wasn't only a mastery of vocabulary, though that never hurts. Handsome, poised, slender, charismatic, in a position to hold his own in verbal fisticuffs without getting rid of his imperious cool, Vidal was the premiere superstar writer of his generation, the main one who enhanced the role of talk-show visitor to a order performance - a theatrical event. He brought the digital crackle of the TV display to his prose and the tactical precision of his prose to battle debate on Television. His near-violent altercations on camera with William F. Buckley, Jr. and Norman Mailer will be the products of YouTube legend and the trick to The Gore Supremacy. A adding copy writer to Vanity Good, a partisan observer of pop culture, and the writer of the New York-in-the-70s memoir Lucking Out (which comes out in paperback this fall season), James Wolcott has been a close-up observer of Vidal on-camera and off for more years than seems respectable. That is his way of paying homage - and declaring goodbye.
