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Red-Dirt Marijuana and Other Tastes
[Paperback - 2001]
terry southern
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Category: Literature
Sub-category: Literary Collections
Additional Category: Humorous Fiction - Short Stories
Publisher: Citadel | ISBN: 9780806511672 | Pages: 276
Shipping Weight: .386 | Dimensions: 5.97 x .63 x 9 inches

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Before New Journalism, before the waggish cinema of Woody Allen, before the Gonzo World of Hunter S. Thompson, Saturday Night Live, and National Lampoon, there was the legendary Terry Southern—author of Candy and The Magic Christian and the screenwriter of Dr. Strangelove and Easy Rider.

Red-Dirt Marijuana and Other Tastes, widely recognized as an underground classic, is a collection of Southern's short pieces, two dozen hilarious, well-observed, and devastating sketches that expose the hypocrisy of American social mores. This edition features an introduction by George Plimpton, one of Southern's longtime literary allies and former editor of The Paris Review.

“Terry Southern is the illegitimate son of Mack Sennett and Edna St. Vincent Millay.” —Kurt Vonnegut

“Terry Southern writes a clean, mean, coolly deliberate, and murderous prose.” —Norman Mailer

“If there was a Mt. Rushmore of modern American humor, Terry Southern would be the mountain they carve it on.”
—Michale O'Donoghue

“Impressive . . . He is both acutely aware of, and the absolute master of the nuances, the ludicrous snobbishness, the deliberate exclusivity of clique vocabulary. . . . With demoniacal cunning he masquerades as the guardian of taste, of responsibility, and of common decency (Mr. Southern's italics, of course).” —New York Times

About the Author

Terry Southern was a highly influential American short story writer, novelist, essayist, screenwriter and university lecturer noted for his distinctive satirical style. He was part of the Paris postwar literary movement in the 1950s and a companion to Beat writers in Greenwich Village; he was at the center of Swinging London in the sixties and helped to change the style and substance of Hollywood films of the 1970s. In the 1980s he wrote forSaturday Night Liveand lectured on screenwriting at several universities in New York.Southern's dark and often absurdist style of broad yet biting satire helped to define the sensibilities of several generations of intelligent writers, readers, directors and film goers. He is credited by journalist Tom Wolfe as having invented New Journalism with the publication of "Twirling at Ole Miss" inEsquirein 1962, and his gift for writing memorable film dialogue was evident inDr. Strangelove, The Loved One, The Cincinnati KidandEasy Rider. His work onEasy Riderhelped create the independent film movement of the 1970s, in opposition to Hollywood film studios.

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