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

by Southern, Terry; Southern, Nile; Friedman, Josh Alan; Southern, Nile; Friedman, Josh Alan

• ISBN13: 9780802116895
• ISBN10: 0802116892
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-05-01
• Publisher: Pgw

Summary

Collecting the most controversial work from the prolific founding father of "new journalism," this anthology of countercultural rantings, riffs, and revolutionary writings carries readers from the 1950s through the sexual revolution and into the 1990s.

Table of Contents

Introduction: An Interview with Terry Southern	1	(16)
Lee Server
Tales
Heavy Put-Away; or, A Hustle Not Wholly Devoid of a Certain Grossness, Granted	17	(8)
A Run of Dimes	25	(6)
Fixing Up Ert	31	(9)
Blue Movie: Outline for Novel	40	(7)
Letters
Dear Ms.	47	(2)
Letter to Lenny Bruce	49	(2)
Letter to the Editor of National Lampoon aka Hard Corpse Pornography	51	(2)
A Letter to the Editor: Stiff Gook Rimming	53	(3)
Letter to George Plimpton aka Sports-Death Fantasy	56	(4)
Worm-ball Man	60	(5)
Behind the Silver Screen
On Screenwriting: An Interview from Movie People	65	(7)
Strangelove Outtake: Notes from the War Room	72	(14)
Proposed Scene for Kubrick's Rhapsody	86	(3)
Plums and Prunes	89	(12)
New Journalism
Fiasco Reverie	101	(17)
Grooving in Chi	118	(12)
The Straight Dope on the Private Dick	130	(17)
The Beautiful-Ugly Art of Lotte Lenya	147	(6)
Riding the Lapping Tongue	153	(15)
The Quality Lit Game
Placing a MS. with New Yorker Mag?	165	(3)
Flashing on Gid [Maurice Girodias]	168	(8)
Rolling Over Our Nerve Endings [William S. Burroughs]	176	(3)
Writers at Work [Henry Green]	179	(12)
King Weirdo [Edgar Allan Poe]	191	(4)
The Scandal Continues	195	(2)
When Film Gets Good...	197	(9)
Drugs and the Writer	206	(5)
Strolls Down Memory Lane
Strange Sex We Have Known [William S. Burroughs]	211	(3)
Frank's Humor [Frank O'Hara]	214	(8)
Memories of Michael [Michael Cooper]	222	(8)
Remembering Abbie [Abbie Hoffman]	230	(3)
Trib to Von [Kurt Vonnegut and George Plimpton]	233	(7)
Origins of the Lampman [Larry Rivers]	240	(8)
Epilogue: Drugstore Cowboys: a Conversation with Terry Southern and William S. Burroughs, by Victor Bockris	248	(11)
Afterword: Now Dig the Archive by Nile Southern	259	(4)
Acknowledgments	263