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Show #126 | May 7, 2016 | Colorado based writer and filmmaker Nile Southern’s newest book is a compilation of his father, Terry Southern’s, letters. The book, Yours in Haste and Adoration: Selected Letters of Terry Southern, is a homage to the senior Southern’s love of language and storytelling through the collection and organization of his letter. Terry was nominated for two Academy Awards – he wrote the screenplays of Dr. Strangelove and Easy Rider – and he was an influential writer known for his unique, comic voice.
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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’s Book of the Year for Creative Non-Fiction.
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