Carved in Marble: An Interview with Gore Vidal.
Polari Magazine talks to the legendary author about his great character Myra Breckinridge, his 63 year writing career, and the turning point promised by the election of Obama.
My greatest achievement is that I’ve never killed anybody. Which reveals an awful lot of temptation. Because I have been visited.Permalink
Wildly funny and deepy serious, Myra Breckinridge is a classic that marked a turning point in American history and literature.
224 pages • Little, Brown • 1968
PermalinkThe issues that Vidal explores – how identity and sexuality are shaped by the cinema and television, and how machismo is played out in irrational wars on foreign nations – are as relevant now as they were in 1968. It is a classic of the Cold War era in American literature.
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