Terry Southern and the American Grotesque
Title | Terry Southern and the American Grotesque PDF eBook |
Author | David Tully |
Publisher | McFarland |
Total Pages | 232 |
Release | 2010-04-23 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 078645637X |
This work offers a critical biography and analysis of the varied literary output of novels, short stories, screenplays, poetry, articles and essays of the American writer Terry Southern. The book explores Southern’s career from his early days in Paris with friends like Samuel Beckett, to swinging London in such company as the Rolling Stones, to filmmaking in Los Angeles and Europe with luminaries like Stanley Kubrick. His writings are examined in chronological order. David Tully was granted unprecedented access by Terry Southern’s family to rare, unpublished work from his private archives. This study offers the first comprehensive examination of the career of this major American writer.
Red-dirt Marijuana and Other Tastes
Title | Red-dirt Marijuana and Other Tastes PDF eBook |
Author | Terry Southern |
Publisher | Citadel Press |
Total Pages | 276 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780806511672 |
Before the "new journalism" of Wolfe, Talese, and Kubrick, before the Brave Gonzo World of Hunter S. Thompson, there was legendary cult writer Terry Southern. This widely recognized underground classic is a collection of Southern's short pieces--two dozen hilarious, well-observed sketches which expose the hypocrisy of American social mores.
The Magic Christian
Title | The Magic Christian PDF eBook |
Author | Terry Southern |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1960 |
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Negrophobia
Title | Negrophobia PDF eBook |
Author | Darius James |
Publisher | New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | 208 |
Release | 2019-02-19 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1681373483 |
A provocative, raucous dark comedy about race and racism in America, now back in print after twenty-five years and with a new preface by the author. Darius James’s scabrous, unapologetically raunchy, truly hilarious, and deeply scary Negrophobia is a wild-eyed reckoning with the mutating insanity of American racism. A screenplay for the mind, a performance on the page, a work of poetry, a mad mix of genres and styles, a novel in the tradition of William S. Burroughs and Ishmael Reed that is like no other novel, Negrophobia begins with the blonde bombshell Bubbles Brazil succumbing to a voodoo spell and entering the inner darkness of her own shiny being. Here crackheads parade in the guise of Muppets, Muslims beat conga drums, Negroes have numbers for names, and H. Rap Remus demands the total and instantaneous extermination of the white race through spontaneous combustion. By the end of it all, after going on a weird trip for the ages, Bubbles herself is strangely transformed.
Mannequin and Wife
Title | Mannequin and Wife PDF eBook |
Author | Jen Fawkes |
Publisher | LSU Press |
Total Pages | 163 |
Release | 2020-09-02 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0807174149 |
Winner of the Phillip H. McMath Award for prose. In Mannequin and Wife, the debut story collection from Jen Fawkes, sharp and imaginative tales trip seamlessly across borderlands, navigating comedy and tragedy, psychological and magical realism, the mundane and the marvelous. Readers of these adventurous fictions will encounter a flock of stenographers, the strongest woman alive, a taxidermist with anger issues, an Elephant Girl, a fairy on her lunch break, and a married couple who live with a department store mannequin. Elsewhere, an American actor impersonates a code-breaking Britisher during World War II. A mother awaiting her son’s return discovers his personal ad soliciting the services of a cannibal (and fears the worst). A criminal mastermind’s protégé plots the destruction of Mount Rushmore from within an extinct volcano. A man buys a drive-in theater and transforms it into a carnival sideshow. And an attorney puzzles over how to leave someone his deceased client’s heart. Fawkes’s award-winning stories examine the vagaries of human relationships—mother and child, husband and wife, mentor and protégé—to tease out the startling complications that arise from our entanglements with those we loathe and those we love.
Reconstructing Strangelove
Title | Reconstructing Strangelove PDF eBook |
Author | Mick Broderick |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | 231 |
Release | 2017-01-03 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0231851006 |
During his career Stanley Kubrick became renowned for undertaking lengthy and exhaustive research prior to the production of all his films. In the lead-up to what would eventually become Dr. Strangelove (1964), Kubrick read voraciously and amassed a substantial library of works on the nuclear age. With rare access to unpublished materials, this volume assesses Dr. Strangelove's narrative accuracy, consulting recently declassified Cold War nuclear-policy documents alongside interviews with Kubrick's collaborators. It focuses on the myths surrounding the film, such as the origins and transformation of the "straight" script versions into what Kubrick termed a "nightmare comedy." It assesses Kubrick's account of collaborating with the writers Peter George and Terry Southern against their individual remembrances and material archives. Peter Sellers's improvisations are compared to written scripts and daily continuity reports, showcasing the actor's brilliant talent and variations.
The Transnational Beat Generation
Title | The Transnational Beat Generation PDF eBook |
Author | N. Grace |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 282 |
Release | 2012-03-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1137014490 |
This collection maps the Beat Generation movement, exploring American Beat writers alongside parallel movements in other countries that shared a critique of global capitalism. Ranging from the immediate post-World War II period and continuing into the 1990s, the essays illustrate Beat participation in the global circulation of a poetics of dissent.