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Literature & Fiction

Terry Southern

Literary

Penguin??Books

Acclaimed novelist, Beat godfather, prolific screenwriter, and one of the founders of New Journalism, as well as the only guy to wear shades on the Sgt. Pepper's album cover, Terry Southern was an audacious, outrageous American original. Now Dig This is a wild, uncensored, and hugely entertaining collection that spans the gamut of his stellar career. From an interview with Henry Green during the salad days of The Paris Review, to his account of life neck-high in girls and cocaine aboard the Rolling Stones' tour jet, Now Dig This is a journey through Terry Southern's America, spanning the buttoned-down 1950s through the sexual revolution, and continuing on to his death in 1995. It places Southern's more formal, early short stories alongside the uproarious "Wormball Man" skit he wrote for Saturday Night Live, based on items in the Weekly World News. It collects his Esquire piece covering the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention with Jean Genet and William S. Burroughs and his remembrances of twentieth-century legends like Abbie Hoffman, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., and director Stanley Kubrick, with whom he wrote Dr. Strangelove. Now Dig This is a vivid testament from an American literary lion, and a hilarious, engrossing, and enlightening statement on the changing America in which he lived and worked.

Now Dig This: The Unspeakable Writings of Terry Southern, 1950-1995

Biographies & Memoirs

Methuen Publishing, Ltd.

Red Dirt Marijuana

Dutton Adult

This satire of Hollywood features King B, an Oscar-winning director who's seen (and filmed) everything, Sid Krassman, a producer who's made a fortune catering to the tastes of the American public, and Angela Sterling, a misunderstood sex symbol who desperately wants to do something 'serious'.

Blue Movie

TRAFALGAR SQUARE +

Coordinated by famed British writer Terry Southern, this volume contains over 300 exceptional photos related to Virgin records taken by David Bailey, Anton Corbijn, &amp; a whole host of great photographers. It also includes exclusive text from Richard Branson &amp; his company co-founders. Quotes, stories, from, &amp; reviews about, various of the bands &amp; characters are featured. Styled like a scrapbook, this book can be read through from beginning to end as the story unfolds, but can also be dipped into time &amp; again. Beautifully designed!

Virgin: A History Of Virgin Records

Humor & Entertainment

A Publishing Co.

Banned upon its initial publication, the now-classic Candy is a romp of a story about the impossibly sweet Candy Christian, a wide-eyed, luscious, all-American girl. Candy a satire of Voltaire’s Candide chronicles her adventures with mystics, sexual analysts, and everyone she meets when she sets out to experience the world.

Candy

Mason Hoffenberg

Humor & Satire

GROVE PRESS

Maxwell Kenton

Bernard Geis

Rolling Stones On Tour published in 1978 photo book 143 pages

The Rolling Stones On Tour

Dragon's Dream

In this collection of new short fiction, eight contemporary authors take aim against the hyperbole of the death of print by exploring just how far writers and artists will go to promote themselves in an evolving world where the laws of decorum no longer apply. Prophetic, harrowing, and at times laugh-out-loud humorous, these stories walk the fine line between fiction and fact, art and apocalypse, to chronicle a trend that cannot be ignored. The book includes a long-lost story by Terry Southern.

A Brief History of Authoterrorism

Andrei Codrescu

David Rees

Ben Greenman

Mark Jay Mirsky

Nile Southern

Jeffrey Dorchen

Whitney Anne Trettien

ANTIBOOKCLUB

Terry Southern was one of the most outrageous and penetrating satirists of the twentieth century, judged by Gore Vidal to be 'the most profoundly witty writer' of their generation. As a novelist (Candy, The Magic Christian, Blue Movie), screenwriter (Dr. Strangelove, Easy Rider, Barbarella), pioneer of the New Journalism at Esquire, and writer for Saturday Night Live, Southern had an incomparable gift for exposing the grotesqueries of the American Way of Life while living it to the full. Southern's list of correspondents reads like a cultural Who's Who of the last half-century. In this collection we find letters to fellow writers including Nelson Algren, William S. Burroughs, George Plimpton, Alex Trocchi, Allen Ginsberg, Henry Green, Gregory Corso, playwright Jack Gelber, and Mason Hoffenberg (co-author of Candy). His letters extend to Hollywood luminaries such as Stanley Kubrick, Dennis Hopper, and George Segal. Southern also corresponded through the years with legendary performers and artists of the day, among them Lenny Bruce, Harry Nilsson, Ringo Starr, John Lennon, Larry Rivers, and gallery scene-maker/impresario Robert Fraser. Even more idiosyncratic and outrageous when writing to his friends than he was for an audience, Southern dashed off a plethora of hilarious, shocking, frequently offensive, and unprintable missives to his many friends and colleagues. As this brilliant collection reveals, Southern was one of the great letter writers of the twentieth century.

Yours in Haste and Adoration: Selected Letters of Terry Southern

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