Wag of the Week Vidal

Gore Vidal

"'Politics' is made up of two words, 'poli,' which is Greek for 'many,' and 'tics,' which are blood-sucking insects."

"Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink."

"What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke."

		Myra Breckinridge/Myron Here in one volume are two books that caused quite a stir when they first came out. Provocative and satirical, they chronicle the story of a transexual whose name is sometimes Myra and sometimes Myron. Readers have described them variously as wicked, outrageous, powerful, vulgar, campy, intelligent, hilarious, irreverent, sassy and insightful.