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"Acclaimed novelist, Beat godfather, prolific screenwriter, and one of the founders of New Journalism, Terry Southern was an audacious, outrageous American original. Now Dig This is an uncensored and hugely entertaining collection that spans the gamut of his stellar career. In Now Dig This, we meet "the rightful heir to Nathanael West" (Norman Mailer), the man Newsweek called "a hip social anarchist, and ... comic pornographer with a profound moral sense." From an interview with Henry Green during the salad days of The Paris Review, to his account of life neck-high in girls and cocaine aboard…

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6 editions
  • Paperback · English · 2002
    Grove Press · 272 pages · 9780802138941
  • Other · English · 2014
    Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. · 9781306620949
  • Other · English · 2012
    Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. · 9781453287415
  • Other · English · 2012
    Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. · 262 pages · 9781453287422
  • Other · English · 2012
    Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. · 9781453265895
  • Other · English · 2001
    Grove Press · 261 pages · 9780802116895
JournalismScreenwritersMotion picture authorshipAmerican NovelistsBiographyAmerican HumoristsAmerican SatireHistory and criticism