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

Terry Southern

Nov 2012 · Open Road Media

About this ebook

DIVDIVAn unforgettable chronicle of an era by one of America’s wildest—and most brilliant—comedic and literary minds/divDIV /divDIVEdited by Nile Southern and Josh Alan Friedman/divDIV
Starting with his landing at the Battle of the Bulge, Terry Southern showed a knack for winding up in the world’s most interesting places. He spent the fifties on the Left Bank of Paris, the sixties in mod London, and the seventies touring with the Rolling Stones. When the Beatles rolled out their famous pantheon of movers and shakers for the cover of Sgt. Pepper, Terry was the only guy wearing shades. When police broke heads during the ’68 democratic convention in Chicago, Southern was there to bear witness. And when Stanley Kubrick needed someone to make Dr. Strangelove funny, there was only one man qualified for the job. /divDIV /divDIVAs the golden age of rock ’n’ roll wound down, Southern never stopped writing, and his prose never lost its trademark intensity. Filthy, fierce, and relentlessly dazzling, these letters, essays, stories, and interviews are an electric testament to one of the keenest wits of the twentieth century./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Terry Southern including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate./div/div

About the author

DIVDIVTerry Southern (1924–1995) was an American author and screenwriter. His satirical novels—including the bestselling cult classics Candy (1958) and The Magic Christian (1959)—and his screenplays for Barbarella, The Loved One, The Cincinnati Kid, Dr. Strangelove, and Easy Rider (the latter two of which were both nominated for the Academy Award for Best Screenplay) established Southern as one of the leading literary and pop-culture voices of the sixties. His other books include Flash and Filigree (1958), Blue Movie (1970), Texas Summer (1991), and his first anthology, Red-Dirt Marijuana and Other Tastes (1967). In later years, he wrote for Saturday Night Live and lectured on screenwriting at New York University and Columbia University./divDIV /divDIVNile Southern is originally from New York City, where he worked for many years as a filmmaker and creator/performer of a multi-projector nightclub film show: Exploding Limo. After moving to Boulder, Colorado with his wife, Theodosia, he published his fiction in O-Blek, Open City, and Black Ice Books (Fiction Collective Two). While living in London in the early ’90s, he wrote a screen-based novella, The Anarchivists of Eco-Dub (www.altx.com/ebooks). He is also the author of The Candy Men: The Rollicking Life and Times of the Notorious Novel Candy (2004); thewinner of the Colorado Book Award for Book of the Year in Creative Non-Fiction; and co-editor of Now Dig This: The Unspeakable Writings of Terry Southern (2001)with Josh Alan Friedman. He is currently at work on DAD STRANGELOVE, a film about his father, Terry Southern, and is the literary executor of the Terry Southern Literary Trust (www.terrysouthern.com)./divDIV /divDIVWriter-guitarist Josh Alan Friedman done learn to read and write at South School in Glen Cove. Evidence of this be the non-fiction books Tales of Times Square (1986), Tell the Truth Until They Bleed (2008), and I, Goldstein (with Al Goldstein, 2006). He done wrote some comix, too, featuring the art of his brother Drew, collected in the anthologies Warts and All (1990) and Any Similarity to Persons Living or Dead Is Purely Coincidental (1985). And he co-edit Now Dig This: The Unspeakable Writings of Terry Southern (2001), with Terry son, Nile. Yes he did. Black Cracker (2010) be his first novel. As “Josh Alan,” he barnstormed the state of Texas for 20 years, rocking whole arenas with his Guild D-40. Copping three Dallas Observer Music Awards for Best Acoustic Act, he released four albums: Famous & Poor (1991), The Worst! (1994), Blacks ‘n’ Jews (1997)—the title of which became a documentary on Josh’s life—and Josh Alan Band (2001)./div/div