The City and the Pillar Gore Vidal
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

It's near the Supreme Court, opposite to Wat Phra Kaeo. "I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ('I am not my own subject,' I used to say with icy superiority)." From the Preface to Gore Vidal's The City and the Pillar and Seven Early Stories. Like any self-respecting American who considers himself even the slightest but literarily inclined, I was already a fan of Vidal's work. The author, essayist, playwright, screenwriter and gay icon was 86 years old, whose most well-known novels were Myra Breckinridge, Two Sisters and Lincoln. Just finished Gore Vidal's “The City and the Pillar,” a novel to which I should have treated myself years ago. He has got to be one of the best writers of the twentieth century. Vidal's hugely controversial, ground-breaking 1948 novel The City and the Pillar, which had a whole bunch of gay stuff in it that was most certainly not casually accepted at the time, was black-listed by The New York Times. REVIEW: As one of the first novels about homosexuality, the story is contemporary and interestingly relevant to the exploration of one's sexuality. In Zamboanga City, the Virgin of the Pillar has been venerated for almost four centuries as the patroness of the city and in the Archdiocese of Zamboanga. But I probably wasn't ready to read it then. Bangkok City Pillar Shrine & The Guardian spirits in the City Pillar Shrine Bangkok Province Thailand Bangkok City Pillar Shrine is the important place of Thai people. After publishing a Hemingway-style war novel when he was barely twenty, he attracted unusual attention in 1948 with his third novel, The City and the Pillar. Smile Politely is Champaign-Urbana's independent online magazine. We provide the community with a passionate, trustworthy, informed point of view on local music, arts, culture, food & drink, sports, politics and news.