Reception
Roger Cormier points out that "when journalists write about...Trapped in the Closet, they tend to throw out a high-brow literary reference," and then calls it "a subtlety free, it's-so-dumb-it's-brilliant work of art" comparable to "Laurence Sterne's 18th century novel The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman ".
Hillary Brown links Trapped in the Closet to Renaissance concept of sprezzatura and compares it to the work of Stendhal and John Ashbery.
David Byrne said, "Wow, here's where some of the most innovative musical staging is happening-- it's not happening in the rock world."
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