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Lee Hill, author of A GRAND GUY: The Art and Life of Terry Southern,
The 1970 film written, co-produced by Terry Southern
writes about End of the Road
End of the Road
R E V I V A L !
past and present:
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The Austin Chronicle:
time for a TS renaissance?
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BAD DAY AT PIG BAY |
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"Recruiting for the Big Parade" (1963) and "Fiasco Reviere" (1970s) |
David Amram, musician and composer:
Vibrations (2001)
(Terry and friends in Paris and New York, 1950s)
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Some Alternative Media:
The
Nation
Southern wrote many book review articles for The Nation, and
other independent publications; some reference Dr. Strangelove, The
Magic Christian,
and other works often...
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Sartre
Online:
The Ultimate Sartrean Resource...
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Reading
Henry Green
by Brooke Allen, The New Criterion
"...he commanded, then and now, excitement amounting to passion from certain
readers, an oddly assorted group including W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bowen,
Terry Southern, Eudora Welty, and John Updike..."
Henry
Green
A New York Times feature article...
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Terry Southern reviews Kurt Vonnegut's "Cat's Cradle"
The New York Times, 1963
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The
Paris Review
online:
Ter's short story, "The Accident," was a
submission to the first
issue of the new literary journal, and helped its founders shape its direction.
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T.S. Eliot
and The Sacred Wood:
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Ameircan Naturalism, anyone?
Some friends of TS:
As a schoolboy, Terry was greatly inspired by E.A.
Poe's mysterious novel,
The
Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
and re-wrote parts of the story to feature his classmates and teachers
as charaters upon the Grampus.
Read Terry's homage to Poe, "King Weirdo", in the anthology
Now Dig This: The Unspeakable Writings of Terry Southern, 1950 – 1995
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Nelson Algren, an admirer of TS who taught Southern's
short stories to inmates at a
correctional facility, once said:
"Southern is more 'Nathaniel Hawthorne'
than Nathanael West",
to whom Norman Mailer once compared Terry
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The
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection
of English and American Literature
of The New York Public Library
(home of the Terry Southern Literary Archive)