Title: New Journalism before it was New.
Review: This collection of short stories, articles, and interviewsreveals a sharp, brazen, hip, and elegant mind at work.Southern, best known for his screenplay for "Dr Strangelove,"here dazzles and beguiles his audience. Southern's early stories,including the insightful "You're Too Hip, Murray" and thehilarious "The Road Out of Axotle," are examples of hiselegant writer's craft and artistry; and Esquire pieces such as therenowned "Twirling at Ole Miss" (ostensibly about a baton-twirling institute, but also about race relations, moonshine, and Faulkner),established him as the first "journalist" to take anidiosyncratic approach to article-writing. The bookis worth buying just for the last story, the famed "Blood ofa Wig," which is the greatest piece on illicit drug use ever written.Even non-hipsters will dig it.
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