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The Candy Men
The Rollicking Life and Times of the Notorious Novel CANDY
by Nile Southern
A Rabelaisian satire loosely based on Voltaire's Candide, Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg's Candy became one of the most famous novels of the tumultuous 1960's. Detailing its humble beginnings in Paris through its agonizing three-year writing gestation (often on paper napkins, lost or destroyed) and the authors' wily business dealings first with French-based publisher Maurice Girodias, then Putnam in America, this book follows with unblinking scrutiny Candy's underground (then mainstream) success, its blatant piracy, its legal shenanigans, and its all-star movie flop. Replete with deceptions and self-deceptions, midnight dope runs, and general pandemonium...
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Poe's Seductive Influence on Great Writers Some of the writers who looked to E.A. "Big Ed" Poe and who are discussed in this book include Rudyard Kipling, Henry James, Walter de la Mare, Thomas Mann, James Thurber, Herman Melville, Stephen King Allen Ginsberg, Terry Southern, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Ernest Hemingway. amazon.com ordering information:
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Classic anthology from 1967 with stories— and, pioneering New Journalism articles
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