Now dig this

by Terry Southern

"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 The Rolling Stones' tour jet, Now Dig This is a journey through Terry Southern's America. It paints a life at the height of social change spanning his Texas boyhood, the buttoned-down 1950s, through the sexual revolution, rock 'n' roll, and independent cinema [which he inaugurated by helping to produce, and cowriting, Easy Rider].". "Gathered from Southern's archives are interviews, early short st