Of tens of thousands of yearly visitors to Antigua, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, few realize that the late author Gore Vidal lived here during the impressionable first years of his writing career. I lived around the corner from his old house for eleven years, and happened to be visiting a friend in Antigua when news came of the author's death on July 31. I felt moved to walk over to the old neighborhood through town, alert to "that sharp smell" that Vidal once wrote was the scent of "most Latin towns: green papaya, dust, damp stone and plaster, and something else, unidentifiable, yet insistent, ubiquitous, death sweet.Click on the Link to read the story.
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Wednesday, November 07, 2012
Gore Vidal's House In Antigua
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