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.
Wednesday, November 07, 2012
Gore Vidal's House In Antigua
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