There’s a new edition of Gore Vidal’s best, most prophetic – and by far his funniest – book, Myra Breckinridge. The protagonist of this 1968 satirical novel, in case you should somehow be unaware of this seminal text, is a former mild-mannered man called Myron who has been transformed via… Read More »Gore, Myra, Camille & Me
Last month I spent a stimulating, and highly satisfying, weekend with Glennda Orgasm. Or rather, the artiste formerly known as Glennda Orgasm. My old (but forever youthful) pal Glenn Belverio, who wise-cracked and bang-flicked his way to fame in the early 1990s, his svelte frame clad in couture frocks, on a NYC… Read More »Glenn Or Glennda?
The Gaga backlash, which recently found itself a leader in Camille Paglia, was inevitable. It’s also misguided, argues Mark Simpson (Out Magazine, Sept 24 2010) My bitch is better than your bitch! And she wore that dress before yours did! My bitch would kick your bitch’s ass! This is the… Read More »That Lady Gaga backlash is so tired already
A little late -my brain turns to plum pudding during the festering season – I’d like to flag up a section on gay marriage from the stand-up intellectual Camille Paglia’s December column on Salon.com. Mostly of course because it mentions me in a flattering fashion. (If you find mutual love-fests… Read More »Marry Me, Ms P – But Civilly