Candy Men : The Rollicking Life and Times of the Notorious Novel Candy

by Southern, Nile

• ISBN13: 9781559707589
• ISBN10: 1559707585
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-07-14
• Publisher: Arcade Pub

Summary

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 wild 1960s. Detailing its humble beginnings in Paris through its agonizing three-year writing gestation (often on paper napkins, lost or destroyed), 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 overboard piracy, its legal shenanigans, and its all-star movie flop. Replete with deceptions and self-deceptions, midnight dope runs, and general pandemonium, The Candy Men is as much fun to read as the original novel itself. And far more instructive.

Author Biography

Nile Southern lives with his wife and two daughters in Boulder, Colorado

Table of Contents

Author's Note	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xv
Beyond the Beat
Paris: 1947-1953	p. 3
A Booklegger's Son	p. 14
Greenwich Village: 1952-1955	p. 23
Enter Candy Christian	p. 28
Giving the Old Head a Breather	p. 36
Our Poets Love It So	p. 45
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place: Geneva, 1956-1958	p. 52
Publishers and Other Criminals	p. 62
Essentially More Warm Than You	p. 68
I to the Hunchback, and Thou Therefrom	p. 74
Mason Gets Cooking	p. 81
This Souped-Up Correspondence	p. 91
"... 3 ... 2 ... 1 ... Jack Off!"	p. 101
Flashpoint: 1958	p. 113
A House O'Porn Extraordinaire	p. 119
Just Call Me Lollipop	p. 125
Stealing Candy
New Life, New England	p. 137
Candy Goes to Italy, Mason Gets Nervous	p. 148
Getting the Kaiser on Paper	p. 157
The Olympia Review	p. 164
sHit Habit (#6)	p. 172
The Naked and the Sucked	p. 179
Fuzz Against Junk	p. 192
What the Fuck Is Wrong with Your Eyes?	p. 204
The Candy Wars	p. 208
Something Worth Blasting	p. 220
A Suitable Vehicle for Prosecution	p. 226
Candy Does America	p. 235
Going Hollywood	p. 248
Enter the Pirates	p. 257
Unreeling Candy
"Good Grief, Me a Movie?"	p. 269
Half of Paris for the Rights	p. 278
Bedlam Was Never So Hectic	p. 284
Tangled Up in Gid	p. 292
With the Spring Comes Mason and Brando	p. 303
Scrawlings on a Cave Wall	p. 316
Birds of a Feather, Falling
Weird Scenes Inside the Big Pink	p. 325
Mason Licks Terry	p. 337
The Refreshing Ambiguity of the Deja Vu	p. 349
Afterword	p. 355
Selected Interviews with Terry Southern Concerning Candy and "Pornography"	p. 357
Anatomy of a Pornectomy	p. 360
Acknowledgments	p. 367
Notes	p. 369
Index	p. 381
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