Gore Vidal at Brighton Dome before appearing in conversation with Andrew Marr.
What Brighton Festival says: “What do Tennessee Williams, JFK, Truman Capote, Anaïs Nin, Jack Kerouac, Paul Newman, Orson Welles and Leonard Bernstein have in common? They have all at one time or other entered the magnetic orbit of America’s first man of letters – novelist, screenwriter, playwright, essayist, raconteur and notorious wit Gore Vidal.
In a rare and unmissable UK visit, Vidal looks back over a remarkable six decade career: from his groundbreaking 1948 novelThe City and the Pillar to coruscating critiques of Bush-era US expansionism. Along the way he has run for office, rescripted Ben Hur, starred in The Simpsons , acted for Fellini, battled with Norman Mailer, attempted to impeach the President and still found time to assemble one of the most defiantly individual bodies of work of the last century.”
