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January – February 2012:
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An update
from Open
Road Integrated Media, publisher of ebooks by Terry
Southern:
Flash
and Filigree — Southern's satirical dream-logic journey
through the dark heart of 1950s Los Angeles — is now part
of the Kindle Owners' Lending Library. The Kindle Owners' Lending
Library gives Amazon Prime Members access to select books to
borrow and read for free as frequently as once per month. Learn
more about the program by visiting Amazon
and
their
offer about Flash and Filligree.
A satirical
dream-logic journey through the dark heart of 1950s Los Angeles:
Southern’s
first novel, Flash and Filigree, was turned down by seventeen
timorous American publishers. It was Southern’s mentor,
the “genius” English novelist Henry Green, who brought
the book to the attention of a leading British publishing house,
which released it to high praise. A fast-paced dark comedy,
Flash and Filigree established Terry Southern as one of the
finest American prose stylists to emerge in Paris after the
War.
Dr. Frederick Eichner, world-renowned dermatologist, is visited
by the entrancingly irritating Felix Treevly who comes to him
as a patient and stays as an obsession. Prosaic incidents blossom
into bizarre developments with the sharpened reality of dreams
as the spectral Mr. Treevly leads the doctor into a series of
increasingly weird situations. With the assistance of a drunken
private detective, a mad judge, a car crash, a game show called
“What’s My Disease,” and a hashish party,
Treevly drives Eichner to madness and mayhem. It is through
comedy and a strange blend of violence and poetic delicacy that
the novel charms.
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Terry Southern
including rare photos and never-before-seen
documents from the author’s estate.
“Mr.
Southern has given us a dazzling performance. This is the book
of the year.” — Henry Green, The Observer
“A
technical masterpiece . . . both maddeningly elliptical and
startlingly explicit.” — The Times
“Flash and Filigree is a very mysterious creation. Black
humor? More than that, much more ...
Terry Southern knows how to write!” — William
Burroughs
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some of the original
"Occupiers"
William Burroughs, Terry
Southern,
and Jean Genet
dispatched by Esquire to cover
the 1968 Democratic Convention
Open
Road Media explores some of the ups and downs of post-war
publishing: |
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New:
Interviews with Nelson Algren and Henry Green
in The Paris Review ...
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The
Los Angeles Times recently covered the life and work of
producer
John Calley – one of Terry's Hollywood friends and
creative colleagues, who worked on
The Loved One and The Cincinnati Kid.
Buck
Henry reminiscences ...
Below:
John Calley (left) and Terry
(photo courtesy of Steve Schapiro)
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Red-Dirt
Marijuana And Other Tastes
Joins The Terry Southern Digital Collection:
details
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CANDY
DOES EYEWEAR!
Some darn good product-placement kicks things off
in this designer specs
ad campaign by Oliver Peoples.
Music
& image-making wunderkind Devendra Banhart (a
Texan!) and his super-hot girlfriend Rebecca Schwartz
are featured in the CANDY-laced erotic video, beautifully
done by Lisa Eisner.
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"Candy
is wickedly funny to read ,,, as only good satire
can be." — William Styron
"There
are no books that treat the erotic as romantically,
as explicitly as Candy does." —
Terry Southern, 1965
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Speaking
of the darling girl from Racine, Wisconsin:
Amazon.com
has selected CANDY
as one of its Sunshine Deals:
the
Kindle Edition is available until June 15 for only $1.99
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Sunday,
May 1, 2011: TERRY SOUTHERN DAY
The historic Texas Theater showed three
Terry Southern classics. Mayor's proclamation:
Robert
Wilonsky's coverage ...
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Open
Road Integrated Media announces the publication of six
Terry Southern titles as ebooks: Details
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Video
about the new editions below:
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What
many have suspected is now confirmed: Vanity Fair,
March 14, 2011 – Details
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Dallas
Morning News corroborates the theory:
maybe every day is Terry
Southern Day? Details
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—
Red-Dirt Collective an Innovative Transmedia Experiment
at SxSW — |
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Announcements
were made the weekend of March 13-14 at the South by Southwest
Music Festival in Austin, Texas – which now showcases
innovations in digital technologies.
Above:
Jean Genet and Terry Southern, on assignment for Esquire
to cover the
1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago.
(photo by Michael Cooper) |
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Terry
Southern: AMERICAN GROTESQUE
Recently
published scholarly study of Terry’s Southern’s
oeuvre available ...
Nearly
a decade in the making, David Tully's American
Grotesque lyrically examines Terry Southern’s
literary output, from the well-known novels, stories and
screenplays to lesser-known, unpublished/unproduced works,
offering the first comprehensive examination of the career
of this major American writer.
Nile
Southern's Introduction is online ...
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The
Paris Review, in which Terry published some of his first work,
celebrates his literary legacy all month. Details ... |
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| Independent
Publisher's Awards site (category 27)
Order
'Trippin' from Amazon.com |
NEW! Terry Southern re-vamped
Grand Guy
Shop
Books,
Albums, MP3s and more!
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close for comfort?
The
U.S. Air Force produced documentary films in the early 1960s to dispel
movie-induced fears
that a General commanding a SAC base might go "as mad as a bloody
March hare" and
send a wing of B-52s to attack the Soviet Union ... a scenario developed
by screenwriters
Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern, and Peter
George.
"The
Air Force versus Hollywood" is online at
CommonDreams.org
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French
Quality-Lit crowd lights up over recently translated edition of:
Texas Marijuana
(Red-Dirt Marijuana, 1967).
More
reviews at
éditions
Gallmeister website |
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| RED ALERT:
"Doctor's
Orders: How
a dead serious novel became the
nightmare satire of Strangelove", by director and film
writer Bilge Ebiri,
was published May 26 on MOVING IMAGE SOURCE online...
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New
York magazine's notice ...
More
on "Heavy Put-Away" — the story, and the film ...
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The
introduction to the Gallmeister edition of Red-Dirt
Marijuana
('Texas
Marijuana')
is online ...
(.PDF format, 337 kb) |
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An essay
about Terry Southern by Christy Rodgers
that appeared in
Dissident
Voice has been featured on Arts
and Letters Daily.
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Paris
in the '50s ... Beat writers flock to the City of Light ... Olympia
Press publishes CANDY, by
Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg
... and the novel becomes one of most controversial
(and most pirated) literary items in publishing history.
Issue
14 of the British countercultural arts magazine and website NUDE
investigates the story of
CANDY in an extensive interview with
Nile Southern, author of
The
Candy Men: The Rollicking Life and Times of the Notorious Novel CANDY.
Visit
the Official Site for
The Candy Men
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Rare
essay on Early Settlers' bizarre sexual practices — written
by Cody
McCallister
— if indeed, that really was
his name...
Also:
The unproduced
Terry
Southern
oneact play,
The Dawn of Cornhole,
is now available
for on-line purchase
Click
here for a tasty sample!
(.PDF
format) |
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Students in Dr.
Howard Good's
journalism class
at the State University of New York at New Paltz undertook
a study this fall of Terry Southern's
1963 Esquire article, "Twirling
at Ole Miss".
"Twirling",
which was later anthologized in Southern's collection
of short stories, essays, and interviews,
Red
Dirt Marijuana and Other Tastes (1967), is
one of the founding documents of what came to be
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| William
Claxton, photographer of jazz musicians, writers, and other artists,
died October 13 in Los Angeles.
Terry, who called Claxton "Grand Guy Clax", also referred
to him as the "Poet of the Lens."
Among
his memorable photos is Terry with dove, published in a
collection entitled "Images of Peace."
Claxton's
official website:
www.williamclaxton.com/movie.html
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2008
marks the 40th anniversary of Terry's first novel, Flash
and Filigree, first published in London by Andre
Deutsch in 1958.
Among
the book's earliest fans was the English novelist Henry
Green, who awarded it 'Book of the Year' for the
London Observer.
Below
are a selection of different printings, including the Grove
Press edition currently in print and available through The
Grand Guy Shoppe.
"A
coolly mad book in dancing prose, Flash and Filigree is startlingly
original."
—
Detroit Sunday Times
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"In
1959, the novelist Terry Southern published
"The Magic Christian," a darkly
comic tale based on the premise that people will do anything for money.
The choice of [Sarah] Palin proves that people will also do anything
for political power — including rising early on a holiday weekend
to make fools of themselves."
—
from "Republicans
Rush In", by Richard Cohen, The Washington Post,
Sept. 2, 2008
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The
World Premiere of “Terry
Southern’s Plums and Prunes”
was held at Short Cuts Canada at the 2007 Toronto International
Film Festival. MORE... |
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eleven-foot painting of Terry
Southern
by Los Angeles artist Matt
Aston,
created in 2003 to celebrate the New York Public Library's acquisition
of the official TS' literary archive, was featured on the cover
the June issue LA arts magazine CitizenLA,
along with an interview
with the artist.
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happens when the co-author of Candy
and Dr.
Strangelove
is hired by the director of Tom
Jones
to collaborate on the script of a motion picture “based on”
a famous novel by Evelyn Waugh? What happens is The
Loved One,
the movie, now
out in DVD from Warner Bros. Add to the mix Haskell Wexler,
Christopher Isherwood, William Claxton, John Gielgud, Robert Morse,
Jonathan Winters, Rod Steiger, James Coburn, Milton Berle and
Roddy McDowell and you're in for a grand time, guaranteed! |
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the set, 1965 |
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"Mickey
Spillane's literary status has never been fully defined in America.
Hard core quality-Lit. buffs, however, will recall how he smashed
into international prominence, in 1947, by concluding his first
novel, I, The Jury, in a manner which made Malaparte,
Céline and other high priests of the roman noir
look like a bunch of pansies..."
Terry
Southern on Mickey Spillane: "I Am Mike Hammer."
(Esquire, 1963).
(Mickey
Spillane, writer of hard-hitting detective fiction, died July
17, 2006)
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CANDY
sweetens the list: Playboy's summer 2006 edition notes
sexiest novels. |
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"Written
By Terry Southern"
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a presentation of films featuring some of Terry's greatest screenwriting,
was held November
18-20, 2005
at The International House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Details...
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Recent
television coverage:
The
American Film Institute cites a memorable line from 'Dr. Strangelove'
(left) as one of the greatest movie lines.
An
NBC special on 'Saturday Night Live' during the 1980s notes
Terry's unique contributions to the show (right).
(Both
clips Quicktime format, 1.2 MB)
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Dallas
Morning News
features Terry
Southern
as one of Texas' seven greatest writers: October,
2005 |
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Candy Men
by
Nile
Southern
has been named a winner in the 2004 Colorado Book Awards. The
announcement was made by the Colorado
Endowment for the Humanities
on October 6, 2005 at the Donald R. Seawell Grand Ballroom at the Denver
Center for the Performing Arts. In September, a presentation about the
book was included in Colorado
Authors—Live!,
a showcase featuring award finalists, at the Denver Public Library's
Central Branch.
For
more details visit The
Candy Men
website...
The
Outlaw Bible of American Literature—as
seen in the New York Times
(with
selections by dope-fiend writers including Jim Carroll, Henry
Miller, Kathy Acker, William Burroughs, Lou Reed, Philip K. Dick,
Nelson Algren, Ken Kesey, Terry Southern, Timothy Leary, Paul
Krassner, Carlos Castenada, and numerous other literary hell-raisers)
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"If
it bleeds, it leads:" The
official TS.com website extends its thanks to The
Daily Bleed.com
and Recollection
Used Books
for helping to celebrate the art and life of Terry Southern (d. Oct.
29, 1995).
And, thanks to The Bleed for its link to the 'Black
Comedy'
entry on Wikipedia.com.
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At
a bookstore near you... a-17 page cover story on Terry Southern in
STOPSMILING,
The Magazine for High-Minded Low Lifes
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Dr.
Strangefeld: Or,
how I learned to stop worrying and love the Long-Rod Penetrator.
By Alexander
Zaitchik
New
York Press, December, 2004
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Cincinnati Kid and Dr. Strangelove honored |
| U.S.
Sen John Edwards on his favorite movie: Dr.
Strangelove |
Billionaires
Run Amok on TV?
Washington
Post revisits The Magic Christian |
A
Bombardier's Reflection
The 40th anniversary of "Dr. Strangelove" prompts some Cold
War reminiscences.
by JAMES
EARL JONES
The
Wall Street Journal
Tuesday, November 16, 2004
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Terry
Southern —
"The
hippest guy on the planet"
—The New York Times |
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The
Candy Men:
The Rollicking Life and Times of the Notorious Novel CANDY
—
by Nile Southern;
published May 2004 "The
adventures of ''Candy'' have been related before, but never
as fully and sympathetically as here, with letters, contracts,
legal minutiae, multifaceted biography and, now and then, a
wistful personal detail, all conspiring to take the story forward..."
—
The
New York Times
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'The Candy Men' offers the pleasure of a generous selection
of Southern and Hoffenberg's correspondence. We are in the realm
of the hipster here, in the company of men who push a joke as
far as it can go for the sheer pleasure of seeing what they
can get away with. "
—
Salon.com
Publishers
Weekly
Non-Fiction:
Editor's Pick for May!
The
Candy Men: The Rollicking Life and Times of the Notorious Novel
CANDY
"In
the spirit of VH1's 'Behind the Music' comes this revealing
behind-the-scenes look at the making, breaking, remaking, pirating,
filming and legal wrangling of the '60s cult phenomenon Candy.
... thanks to [...] a slew of publishing pirates, it leapt to
bestsellerdom and was eventually crowned 'the world's most talked
about book'."
Order
a copy from THE GRAND GUY SHOP
Visit
the home page for
The
CANDY Men
and
learn about the book, the movie, the whole story
Events,
reviews, discussions, weblogs,
and more
New
York Public Library
panel discussion:
"When
Candy Was Banned"
November
9, 2004
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| Some
articles about Terry Southern, his works, and his legacy... |
Recent
books by and about TS: |
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Now
Dig This: The Unspeakable Writings
of Terry Southern, 1950-1995,
edited
by Nile Southern and Josh Alan Freidman
A
Grand Guy:
The Art and Life of Terry Southern,
by Lee Hill
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On
the Alert!
The Terry
Southern Literary Trust
is looking to acquire any LETTERS of Terry Southern's and
other items, including:
Barbarella (screenplay)
Dr. Strangelove (screenplay)
CANDY (first Olympia printing, Paris; 1958)
If you have come across any such items, or know of anyone
or any research library that has same, please contact the
Terry Southern Literary Trust!
contact@terrysouthern.com
Many thanks,
The TSLT
Esquire,
October 2003,
70th anniversary edition honors:
MOST EXPERIMENTAL
INVESTIGATIVE TEAM:
William Burroughs, Terry
Southern,
and Jean Genet dispatched to the
1968 Democratic Convention
Click
here to read
"Grooving in Chi"
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ACHTUNG!
Der Super-Porno (Blue Movie, 1970), has been published
in German! Get info on other international editions!
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Preversions
in high places! Writers, artists, activists, pranksters,
and a menagerie of preverts of all kinds are putting the
Southern point of view into action! New
satirical sites
and commentaries each month!
Southernistas
are on the move! Guy Grand is alive and well! |
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April
1, 2003
The New York Public Library acquires the
Terry Southern literary archive
Read
the library's article here...
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"The
power of Southern’s satirical prose made him the
only wordsmith of the ’60s who could have won a word
fight with Lenny Bruce..." "The
Mystery of Terry Southern," Gadfly
by
Victor Bockris
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OF THE ROAD "Lost"
film treasure rediscovered! Written, co-produced by
Terry Southern. Read about
the history of this underground classic from 1970. |
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Red-Dirt
Marijuana and Other Tastes (1967)
New
edition recently
re-issued in the UK by Kensington!
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come to the right place to learn about Terry's books and
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