Capturing a Wit Through the Ages Terry Southern
Show #126 | Guest: Nile Southern is a Boulder based filmmaker and writer. His books beyond Yours in Haste and Adoration include Now Dig This: The Unspeakable Writings of Terry Southern, 1950-1995 (edited with Josh Alan Friedman), and The CANDY Men: The Rollicking Life and Times of the Notorious Novel, CANDY (Arcade, 2004), which won Colorado\u2019s Book of the Year for Creative Non-Fiction. | Show Summary: Colorado based writer and filmmaker Nile Southern\u2019s newest book is a compilation of his father, Terry Southern\u2019s letters. The book, Yours in Haste and Adoration: Selected Letters of Terry Southern, is a homage to the senior Southern\u2019s love of language and storytelling. Terry was nominated for two Academy Awards - Dr. Strangelove and Easy Rider - and was an influential writer known for his unique, comic voice.