Gore, Myra, Camille & Me
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… Read More »Gore, Myra, Camille & Me
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… Read More »Gore, Myra, Camille & Me
by Mark Simpson We don’t really do subtexts in the see-through, digital 21st Century. Sextexts, definitely. Subtweets, possibly. Subtexts, not so much. Who has the… Read More »Get Hur! How Gay Subtexts Became Ancient History
The campness of Susan Sontag (Independent on Sunday, 2002) The first sentence in Susan Sontag’s latest collection of essays is eight lines long, mentions Camus… Read More »Does My Brain Look Big in This?
Mark Simpson on the (fast diminishing) difference between fame and legend (The Hospital Club magazine, Spring 2010) A recent bloody assassination attempt on Gore Vidal,… Read More »The Legendary Test
God, I can’t help but love the old bastard. Another tour-de-force from Gore Vidal (interviewed by Tim Teeman) appeared in The London Times last week,… Read More »Gore Vidal Takes on The World – Again