Playboy Interview: Gore Vidal

Playboy Interview: Gore VidalOne of the few happy developments of 1968--a year disfigured by police riots, student rebellions, political assassinations and a rancorous Presidential campaign--was the emergence into the national consciousness of Gore Vidal. "Myra Breckinridge," Vidal's controversial 11th novel, which appeared in February of last year, has sold some 4,500,000 copies--an almost unheard-of success for a serious literary work in America. And Vidal reached an even larger audi...