CONTENTS

        INTRODUCTION  Gore Vidal as a Talker

1     Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

        Royce Hall, UCLA

        April 28, 2007

2     Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities

        University of Southern California

        December 15, 2006

3     The 2000 Shadow Convention Radio Interview

        Plaza Hotel, New York City

        September 9, 2000

4     Radical History Review Interview

        Ravello, Italy

        July 12, 1988

        POSTSCRIPT  Remembering Gore Vidal

        ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

        NOTES