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If you want non-fiction, I'd recommend Inventing a Nation or his essays. I don't particularly like the selection in _The Best of Gore Vidal_I'd recommend The Last Empire. United States, the omnibus of his essays from 1952-'92 has excellent, excellent work in it, but is probably a bit much for someone who hasn't read his essays before. Finally, Point to Point Navigation, one volume of his memoirs, is fantastic, especially as an audiobook. Vidal recorded it himself, and it's a real joy to hear him read his own work. (Worth it just to hear his FDR impression.) • • •. Of his fiction, Burr inaugurates his big series of novels about American politics and it's a great read. Lincoln, the follow-up, is also very much worth reading. (And if you enjoy those, you'll probably wind up reading the entire 'Narratives of Empire' series that those books inaugurate.) In addition to politics, he was well-known for his commentary on American sexual life, and The City and the Pillar (a controversial early gay novel) and Myra Breckinridge are both good reads - City has pathos, Myra has devilish wit. Aside from the fiction, though, his essays are wonderful. His best work in this area is collected in the magisterial United States: Essays 1952-1992 book, and The Last Empire is a good follow-up that collects more of the same. The nonfiction, to me, is the best of his work, and it's here that his voice really comes through: he was great at analyzing phenomena like sexuality in American life (e.g. His great polemical essay 'Pink Triangle and Yellow Star') and the doings of politicians, but equally good at looking in-depth at literary culture. And his humor! United States includes a couple of the funniest pieces about books I've ever read - one chronicles the top ten New York Times bestsellers with a jaundiced eye, and his review of Robert Penn Warren's Band of Angels I won't even describe. Aside from all that, he had a generous tendency to champion half-forgotten writers - I suspect his advocacy of Dawn Powell's work played a large role in getting her work into the Library of America series. He also has a couple of fine memoirs that are well-written and full of compelling literary and political gossip: Palimpsest and Point-to-Point Navigation.
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