The following is an excerpt from Passionate Outlier: Gay Writers and Allies on Their Work by Frank Pizzoli and now available from Rebel Satori Press. Subscribe to our newsletter for a refreshing ...

I’m old enough to remember when novelists were big-time. When I was in college in the 1980s, new novels from Philip Roth, Toni Morrison, Saul Bellow, John Updike, Alice Walker and others were cultural ...

I’m old enough to remember when novelists were big-time. When I was in college in the 1980s, new novels from Philip Roth, Toni Morrison, Saul Bellow, John Updike, Alice Walker and others were cultural ...

In winter 2018, Netflix gave a triumphant report of its fourth quarter earnings from 2017. The streaming giant touted its increased streaming revenue, over 20 million new memberships added, and that ...

A Gore Vidal biopic, canceled at the streamer in 2017, would've been an early Netflix prestige original. But then, allegations against Kevin Spacey killed the film in post-production. IndieWire speaks ...

When the patrician (1) essayist, novelist, sometime political candidate and inveterate talk show guest Gore Vidal died July 31st, a body of funerary recollections were exhumed by obituary writers.

Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi, known in the movie industry mainly for his work as an editor, collaborated in directing this excellent documentary on the history, value, and impact of the ...

Lytton Strachey’s famous “Eminent Victorians” (1918), an irreverent depiction of the leading lights of an age that in the biographer’s view took itself way too seriously, comes to mind when reading ...

Gore Vidal said that he hoped to be remembered as “the person who wrote the best sentences of his time”. It was a typically vainglorious boast from an author whose finest writing remains overshadowed ...

Norman Mailer, the lapsed titan of American letters and culturally pervasive provocateur who won the Pulitzer Prize for both Fiction and Nonfiction and remained a reliable bestseller throughout his ...

Gore Vidal’s film adaptation of his Tony-winning play pitted Henry Fonda against Cliff Robertson as candidates vying to become their party’s presidential nominee — and was also the first film to use ...