The Musical Afterlives of Myra Breckinridge
Our author explores musical interpretations of Gore Vidal's book Myra Breckinridge
The afterlives of books are funny things. Gore Vidal’s Myra Breckinridge (1968) was a smash hit upon release. In 1970 there was a disastrous movie adaptation. Decades later, it was still being praised by such luminaries as Harold Bloom. And then, in America at least, it slipped quietly out of print only to reappear in a new edition in 2019, just in time…
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