Mewshaw's ninth novel is a timely, stylish international thriller set in an anarchic fictional republic in Central Asia. Zack McClintock's wife died during his second ...

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. Gore Vidal was known for his ...

Michael Mewshaw's witty and sad account of his friendship with Gore Vidal -- "Sympathy for the Devil" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $24) -- shows us that Vidal's cool and detached tone at his public ...

This book appears just in time. How many people under age 50 even recognize the name Gore Vidal? No, he's not television's onetime horror host Count Gore De Vol. Possibly some millennials will recall ...

Mewshaw records the eerie, somewhat manipulative tale of being forced back into his personal experience of giving up a child for adoption. "Amy," an adopted woman seeking her biological parents, comes ...

American damage is the story underneath the story in Michael Mewshaw's powerful literary thriller set in Granada, Spain. More than 20 books into his career, Mewshaw is deft at creating a story that is ...

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How many people under age 50 even recognize the name Gore Vidal? No, he’s not television’s onetime horror host Count Gore De Vol. Possibly some millennials will recall a few of Vidal’s more famous ...

Gore Vidal was known for his historical novels and his social criticism. He was also famous for an acid wit that occasionally ventured into nastiness. He died in 2012. Now his friend of nearly four ...

Author Michael Mewshaw has parlayed his decadeslong acquaintance with novelist and essayist Gore Vidal into a slender volume that describes, in scabrous detail, Vidal’s numerous failings as a writer ...

Gore Vidal was known for his historical novels and his social criticism. He was also famous for an acid wit that occasionally ventured into nastiness. He died in 2012. Now his friend of nearly four ...