Candy Men : The Rollicking Life and Times of the Notorious Novel Candy
by Southern, NileEdition: Reprint
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Pub. Date: 2005-07-14
Publisher(s): Arcade Pub
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Summary
A Rabelaisian satire loosely based on Voltaire's Candide,Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg's Candy became one of the most famous novels of the wild 1960s. Detailing its humble beginnings in Paris through its agonizing three-year writing gestation (often on paper napkins, lost or destroyed), the authors' wily business dealings first with French-based publisher Maurice Girodias, then Putnam in America, this book follows with unblinking scrutiny Candy's underground (then mainstream) success, its overboard piracy, its legal shenanigans, and its all-star movie flop. Replete with deceptions and self-deceptions, midnight dope runs, and general pandemonium, The Candy Men is as much fun to read as the original novel itself. And far more instructive.
Author Biography
Nile Southern lives with his wife and two daughters in Boulder, Colorado
Table of Contents
| Author's Note | p. xiii |
| Introduction | p. xv |
| Beyond the Beat | |
| Paris: 1947-1953 | p. 3 |
| A Booklegger's Son | p. 14 |
| Greenwich Village: 1952-1955 | p. 23 |
| Enter Candy Christian | p. 28 |
| Giving the Old Head a Breather | p. 36 |
| Our Poets Love It So | p. 45 |
| A Clean, Well-Lighted Place: Geneva, 1956-1958 | p. 52 |
| Publishers and Other Criminals | p. 62 |
| Essentially More Warm Than You | p. 68 |
| I to the Hunchback, and Thou Therefrom | p. 74 |
| Mason Gets Cooking | p. 81 |
| This Souped-Up Correspondence | p. 91 |
| "... 3 ... 2 ... 1 ... Jack Off!" | p. 101 |
| Flashpoint: 1958 | p. 113 |
| A House O'Porn Extraordinaire | p. 119 |
| Just Call Me Lollipop | p. 125 |
| Stealing Candy | |
| New Life, New England | p. 137 |
| Candy Goes to Italy, Mason Gets Nervous | p. 148 |
| Getting the Kaiser on Paper | p. 157 |
| The Olympia Review | p. 164 |
| sHit Habit (#6) | p. 172 |
| The Naked and the Sucked | p. 179 |
| Fuzz Against Junk | p. 192 |
| What the Fuck Is Wrong with Your Eyes? | p. 204 |
| The Candy Wars | p. 208 |
| Something Worth Blasting | p. 220 |
| A Suitable Vehicle for Prosecution | p. 226 |
| Candy Does America | p. 235 |
| Going Hollywood | p. 248 |
| Enter the Pirates | p. 257 |
| Unreeling Candy | |
| "Good Grief, Me a Movie?" | p. 269 |
| Half of Paris for the Rights | p. 278 |
| Bedlam Was Never So Hectic | p. 284 |
| Tangled Up in Gid | p. 292 |
| With the Spring Comes Mason and Brando | p. 303 |
| Scrawlings on a Cave Wall | p. 316 |
| Birds of a Feather, Falling | |
| Weird Scenes Inside the Big Pink | p. 325 |
| Mason Licks Terry | p. 337 |
| The Refreshing Ambiguity of the Deja Vu | p. 349 |
| Afterword | p. 355 |
| Selected Interviews with Terry Southern Concerning Candy and "Pornography" | p. 357 |
| Anatomy of a Pornectomy | p. 360 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 367 |
| Notes | p. 369 |
| Index | p. 381 |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
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