EDMUND WHITE in Conversation with Joyce Carol Oates

At the New York Public Library, October 16, 2007

To meet Edmund White once was to love him, and to see him frequently, and become one of his small galaxy of dear friends, was a joy indeed. Apart from his writing, which is distinguished by a uniquely conversational yet erudite style, Edmund was the most eloquent, the most informative, and the most entertaining of conversationalists; it is easy to imagi…