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“Terry Southern was one of the first and best of the new wave of American writers, defining the cutting edge of black comedy.”—Joseph Heller

Open Road Media announces the publication of Terry Southern’s Red-Dirt Marijuana and Other Tastes on June 14, 2011. It joins five other Terry Southern titles previously made available as ebooks in May, including Blue Movie, Flash and Filigree, Candy, The Magic Christian, and Texas Summer.

An underground classic, Red-Dirt Marijuana and Other Tastes is a brilliant collection of incisive, darkly comic, devastating stories and wide-ranging pieces by America’s master satirist. It ...

“Terry Southern is the most profoundly witty writer of our generation.” —Gore Vidal

Open Road Media announces the publication of five titles by legendary novelist and screenwriter Terry Southern as ebooks on May 3, 2011, and one title on June 7, 2011.

Terry Southern (1924–1995), an American satirist, author, journalist, screenwriter, and educator, is considered one of the great literary minds of the second half of the twentieth century. His bestselling novels—Candy, a spoof on pornography based on Voltaire’s Candide, and The Magic Christian, a satire of the grossly rich—established Southern as a literary and pop ...