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by Gore Vidal (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 260 pages
  • Publisher: Cleis Press (1 May 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1573440825
  • ISBN-13: 978-1573440820
  • Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.4 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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Presents thriteen essays and four interviews on topics ranging from Jack Kerouac to AIDS.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Timely and Welcome Collection, 13 July 1999
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This collection of Vidal's essays (and a few interviews) on sex and sexuality is both timely and welcome, since, as he states, sex is never far from public consciousness in the ever-repressed U.S.A. Essays like "Sex is Politics" are as fresh today as they were when first published, and is there another writer alive with a more authentic knowledge of American history and a more genuine understanding of American culture and political thought? I think not. Combine these assets with, as always, exqusite writing, and you have one utterly irresistible book.

Contrary to what certain "gender absolutists" would have us all think, Vidal's opinions on sexuality are more trenchant than ever before at a time when more men and women are transgressing the false boundaries of gender to explore sex with whoever we please. This collection is a happy defiance of those who would try to neatly categorize all of us based on our sexual acts or even our preferences (a difficult feat indeed when one considers women like me, who perform with men acts that might be considered, ahem, decidedly queer...)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Disparate Works of an American Master Artfully Bound, 16 Jun 1999
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It is axiomatic that Gore Vidal has long been one of the more underrated American literary masters of the 20th century. It is brilliant compilations like SEXUALLY SPEAKING that do battle with this oversight. Not often do books emerge that contain such wit, history and a chilling timeliness, that can be both enlightening and serve as a puckish summer read. The supplemental commentary is piercing, poignant and vulgar. This is the book that archeologists will dig up in two hundred years, to see how sexual identity in the 20th century was both confused and triumphant
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5.0 out of 5 stars Reading as a revolutionary act, 14 Aug 1999
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Equally, Donald Weise must be praised for putting together one of the smartest collections from one of America's venerated thinkers and writers, Gore Vidal. A brave, funny, sometimes eye-opening peeks into the mind of Gore Vidal and his ever controversial takes on queerness. Bravo Sexually Speaking!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Intelligent and well worth reading
An excellent collection of Vidal pieces on sexuality which made for an interesting afternoon's read. Read more
Published on 18 Jun 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars A true American original with an intellectual hammer
"Sexually Speaking" in these times is risky business, as Clinton, Starr, Lewinsky, and Tripp et al have more than shown us. Read more
Published on 11 Jun 1999

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