In Deep Radio - NILE SOUTHERN


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Angie Coiro - In Deep Radio live at Kepler's

Wednesday, May 4, 2016, 12:00  p.m. 

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Doors open at 11:30 a.m. Show starts promptly at 12:00 p.m!

 

Featured Guest: Nile Southern, American filmmaker, writer, and son of Terry Southern 


Terry Southern was one of the most outrageous and penetrating satirists and letter-writers of the 20th century, judged by Gore Vidal to be "the most profoundly witty writer" of their generation. As a novelist (Candy, The Magic Christian, Blue Movie), screenwriter (Dr. Strangelove, Easy Rider, Barbarella), pioneer of the "New Journalism" at Esquire, and writer for Saturday Night Live, Southern had an incomparable gift for exposing the grotesqueries of the American Way of Life while living it to the full. 

Southern's list of correspondents reads like a cultural Who's Who of the last half-century. In this collection we find letters to fellow writers including Nelson Algren, William S. Burroughs, George Plimpton, Alex Trocchi, Allen Ginsberg, Henry Green, Gregory Corso, playwright Jack Gelber, and Mason Hoffenberg (co-author of Candy). His letters extend to Hollywood luminaries such as Stanley Kubrick, Dennis Hopper, and George Segal. Southern also corresponded through the years with legendary performers and artists of the day, among them Lenny Bruce, Harry Nilsson, Ringo Starr, John Lennon, Larry Rivers, and gallery scene-maker/impresario Robert Fraser. 

Even more idiosyncratic and outrageous when writing to his friends than he was for an audience, Southern dashed off a plethora of hilarious, shocking, frequently offensive, and unprintable missives to his many friends and colleagues.

Nile Southern is noted for his book The Candy Men, a "biography of a book," about the writing and publishing of the comic sex novel Candy, by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg. He recently co-edited Yours in Haste and Adoration: Selected Letters of Terry Southern,  with Brooke Allen. Nile is the son of writer Terry Southern and literary editor Carol Southern.
 

 

 

 

 

Event date: 
Wednesday, May 4, 2016 - 12:00pm
Event address: 
1010 El Camino Real
Menlo Park, CA 94025-4349