Volume 10, Number 9 · May 9, 1968
Growing Up Androgynous
By Margot Hentoff
Myra Breckinridge
by Gore Vidal
Little, Brown, 264 pp., $5.95
Vidal said, 'Let them be there!' And they were there. Tens of thousands of copies of Myra Breckinridge on bookstore tables across America. No free reviewer's copies. No advance publicity. Just Gore Vidal's underground novel selling and selling and selling. To my mother. To the movies. To me. Selling with such astonishing rapidity as to make the book's publication itself a parody of things underground. A parody so successful that one begins to wonder if the underground still exists, and where.
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