Getting yourself on the cover of the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonley Hearts Club Band wasn’t on the mind of anyone who wound up there. But it’s a good thing Terry Southern did, otherwise it’d be just that much more difficult to explain who he is and or was. Yea, he helped write some Hollywood scripts of films that you’ve probably seen, but he was a novelist, not just a story teller. Of course the stories he told have at least one foot in reality, but that’s really what makes each of his works – filmic or in book form - all the more interesting. Read more
