<div><p>Welcome, subscribers, to my weekly mailout, except for last week, when I didn't do one. I needed a rest.</p><p>Those of you who were with me as I blogged the US election will know what an exciting, rewarding, exhausting and ultimately physically damaging journey it was. &lt ...

<div><p> POINT TO POINT NAVIGATION by Gore Vidal Doubleday, <p> Two summers ago at La Rondinaia, during one of those last evenings before he flew from his sky-high eyrie for the last time, Gore Vidal advised me to read the 19th-century memoirist Augustus Hare's The Story of my Life, an author with ...

<div><p> CRY SHAME (1950) by Katherine Everard</p><p> Cry Shame! is the torrid tale of a 13-yearold girl who leaves home to become a dancer: in her brief career she learns things she is too young to know, runs off with a man four times her age, assiduously breaks the ...

<div id="subtitle">Author Gore Vidal fractured spine in recent fall, cancels Ohio appearance</div><div><p>Gore Vidal fractured his spine in a fall two weeks ago and canceled an appearance scheduled Thursday at the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library in Toledo, Ohio.</p><p>"I'm trying ...