, appeared in 1981 and then in expanded form in 2002. The second strain consists of the comedic “satirical inventions”: Myron (1974, a sequel to Myra Breckinridge ), Kalki (1978), Duluth (1983), Live from Golgotha: The Gospel according to Gore Vidal (1992), and The Smithsonian Institution (1998). Vidal occasionally returned to writing