Books
July, 1964
You name it and Gore Vidal can write it: play, movie, novel, short story, review, essay, political speech. It is rumored that he knocks off mysteries under a pseudonym when he can't get to sleep nights. The latest product of his prolific pen, Julian (Little, Brown, $6.95), shows him in still another medium: the groaningly long historical novel that is juicily ripe to be transformed into a groaningly long Cinerama spectacle. Vidal has entered this field through the life and times of Julian the Ap...