Myra Breckinridge

Gore, Myra, Camille & Me

by Mark Simpson
February 8, 2021February 9, 2021

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

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

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