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FILE - In this Nov. 19, 2009 file photo, actress Joanne Woodward, left, stands by as Gore Vidal speaks at the National Book Awards in New York. Woodward presented Vidal with the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Vidal died Tuesday, July 31, 2012, at his home in Los Angeles. He was 86. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg, File)

Gore Vidal book becomes best-seller after Julian Assange arrest

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Police bundle WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from the Ecuadorian embassy into a police van in London after he was arrested by officers from the Metropolitan Police and taken into custody Thursday April 11, 2019. Police in London arrested WikiLeaks founder Assange at the Ecuadorean embassy Thursday for failing to surrender to the court in 2012, shortly after the South American nation revoked his asylum. (@DailyDOOH via AP)

Assange arrest leads to interest in book of Vidal interviews

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FILE - This Nov. 11, 1940 file photo shows playwright Tennessee Williams at his typewriter in New York. &quot;Crazy Night&quot;, a work of short fiction by Williams will be printed in the spring issue of The Strand Magazine, a quarterly based in Birmingham, Mich. (AP Photo/Dan Grossi, File)

Rare Tennessee Williams story published

By HILLEL ITALIE - Associated Press

Broadway will dim lights in memory of Gore Vidal

By MARK KENNEDY - Associated Press

Gore Vidal was among the last generation of literary writers who were also genuine celebrities — regulars on talk shows and in gossip columns, personalities of such size and appeal that even those who hadn’t read their books knew their names. He was 86 when he died Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles. Throughout his life, he picked apart politicians, living and dead; mocked religion and prudery; opposed wars and insulted his peers like no other. (Associated Press)

Gore Vidal challenged power but never held it

By Hillel Italie

The great, and entitled Gore Vidal

By HILLEL ITALIE - Associated Press

Gore Vidal, celebrated author, playwright, dies

By HILLEL ITALIE - Associated Press

**FILE** Author Gore Vidal tosses barbs in all directions as he discusses Hollywood unions, politics, lecturing and publicizing books during an interview in Los Angeles on Dec. 9, 1974. Vidal died July 31, 2012, at his home in Los Angeles. He was 86. (Associated Press)

Gore Vidal, celebrated author, playwright, dies at 86

By Andrew Dalton and Hillel Italie - Associated Press

Broadway will dim lights in memory of Gore Vidal

By MARK KENNEDY - Associated Press

** FILE ** In this Sept. 14, 2005 file photo, British essayist Christopher Hitchens speaks during a debate in New York. (AP Photo/Chad Rachman, File)

Here’s the Hitch: Hitchens writes a memoir

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