Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal Turns Off the Lights on the American Dream

by Mark Simpson
May 19, 2009July 27, 2022

Mark Simpson speaks to the mother of Myra Breckinridge, and scourge of imperialism, monotheism – and monosexuality (Arena Hommes Plus, Summer 2009) It’s a bad connection, and I’m having difficulty hearing the last living Great American Man of Letters. He says something else I don’t hear and I ask him to… Read More »Gore Vidal Turns Off the Lights on the American Dream

Little Britain Touches Up Uncle Sam

by Mark Simpson
October 20, 2008October 6, 2011

By Mark Simpson (Guardian, 20 October, 2008) ‘What other culture could have produced someone like Ernest Hemingway,’ waspish bisexual American exile Gore Vidal once asked of America’s favourite so-butch-he’s-camp writer, ‘and not seen the joke?’. The answer, was, of course, that only a culture that couldn’t see the joke could… Read More »Little Britain Touches Up Uncle Sam

« Previous
1
2