Southern, Terry (1924-1995)
Texas-born writer Terry Southern is best remembered for the wildly written satires—usually featuring a Candide-esque heroine—that earned him acclaim in the ea...
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Terry Southern was born in Alvarado, Texas, on 1 May 1924. He was educated at Southern Methodist University, the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, where he received his B.A. in 1948, and...
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Stuck in that weird intersection between the death throes of the old Hollywood and the birth pangs of the new, The Loved One, Tony Richardson’s 1965 film of Evelyn Waugh’s satire of fam...
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Stuck in that weird intersection between the death throes of the old Hollywood and the birth pangs of the new, The Loved One, Tony Richardson’s 1965 film of Evelyn Waugh’s satire of fam...
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The connection between Christopher Buckley, the sort of writer whose novels are invariably described as “wickedly†something or other (clever, satirical, entertain...
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As you may have been able to tell from The New York Times' diabetes series (following its series on gold), it's Pulitzer season and everyone's trying to jump on the multi-part bandwagon. Even Marke...
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So where do you find Truly Weird America these days? Does the “Ghost World” exist any more?
The Old, Weird America: That was the title of Greil Marcus’ admirably eccentric and il...
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So where do you find Truly Weird America these days? Does the “Ghost World” exist any more?The Old, Weird America: That was the title of Greil Marcus’ admirably eccentric and illu...
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I’m beginning to feel that Norman Mailer might have made a strategic mistake in recent interviews plugging his new book on writing, The Spooky Art. A strategic mistake in conspicuously low-ba...
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Southern, Terry (1924-1995)
Terry Southern
Richardson\'d5s Lively Disaster: Waugh\'d5s The Loved One
