Saluting `Myra Breckinridge` on its 50th anniversary
(LA Times Auto Racing)

It´s tempting to leave `Myra Breckinridge` well enough alone. Compared to the rest of his oeuvre, Gore Vidal´s 1968 novel seems misbegotten, like racing stripes on a limousine. His reputation was built on tart criticism and erudite, patrician historical novels about Washington, D.C., not a comic...