Vidal talked to The
Atlantic, a publication in which he rarely appears, in October 2008
On a 2008 tour of Europe, Vidal discussed the American presidential election and more with a
U.K. newspaper
Dubbed "the lion in winter," Vidal talks to a
British
newspaper in June 2007
The new online U.K. magazine Polari interviewed Vidal in April 2009
After decades of feuding, Vidal and Norman
Mailer buried the hatched and did an interview together for Esquire
The Paris Review has puts its lengthy fall 1974 interview with Vidal online (PDF format)
The Los Angeles Times did a big feature profile of Vidal in April 2006
Here's a lengthy
interview from 1985
In July 2006, Vidal talked to The Progressive
Counterpunch published a report on Vidal's trip to Cuba in 2006, and it was followed by a part
2, and preceded by an
interview conducted during his visit
Vidal gets a bit cagey in an April 2006
chat when an interviewer gets personal
Vidal attends a
symposium on his work at Yale
Vidal's two-part interview on Truthdig covered
the Oscars and politics
Here's a political interview from
Minneapolis City Pages published in March 2005
Vidal appeared on the cover of A&U
magazine in August 2005
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Vidal discusses a range of things in More from
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In A&U magazine, Vidal talks about
AIDS and other matters
You can
read or listen to a November 2004 interview on imperial America
Here's a long
post-Sept. 11 interview from Salon.
Vidal discusses Thomas Jefferson at length
Here are links to two
Sept. 11 discussions between Vidal, Dinesh D'Souza and Robert Higgins
Here's a interview by Christine
Smith from December 2005
Two reporters chatted with Vidal on
Democracy Now radio in 2004
Marc Cooper talks to America's last
defender
Here's a transcript of a May 2002 radio interview
An interview for the 2001
Prague Writers' Festival
An interview from the 2001
Edinburgh International Book Festival
Vidal answered questions on-line for USA Today
on April 12, 2002, and again on Jan. 30, 2003
Vidal talks about being censored in the U.S.
From 1992, Vidal discusses
Parker Tyler et al
Vidal
answers people questions
This 1992 about Parker Tyler appeared in Gay
Community News
From 1986, a
Vidal interview
Vidal discusses the
American psyche
A
Salon interview
From 2000, a transcript of a radio show from the Commonwealth Club
Erica Jong visits Vidal in Italy
Another Salon piece,
The Other Gore
Some more of the
quotable Vidal
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