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In Sickness and In Health

A bouquet for Gore Vidal, the snidest of the snide.

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Newsweek followed his lead, and Vidal's next seven books went unreviewed by publishing's most important venue. "A professor who lectures on my work tells me that academics to this day refuse to believe that the Times could ever have done such a thing. Such is simple faith."

Worse than the blackout was the paper's hypocrisy and outright stupidity: It raved the three mysteries he wrote under a pen name, but a decade later when he published them in a single volume under his real name, it reviewed them again -- and panned them.

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Florence King is the author of Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady, The Florence King Reader, and, most recently, STET, Damnit!: The Misanthrope's Corner, 1991 to 2002 (National Review Press).

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