Description
Book SynopsisThe best articles by the Rolling Stone and Village Voice writer whose commentaries on movies and music set the standard for cultural reporting in the New Journalism of the Sixties and Seventies.
Trade ReviewDave Hickey gets it exactly right in his preface to this collection of journalism, poetry, fiction and memoir: Lewis, who died in 1997, was indeed 'the most stone wonderful writer that nobody ever heard of.' Writing for
Rolling Stone in the early '70s, he almost singlehandedly invented the movie set piece, and no one's ever improved on his flint-eyed profiles of Sam Peckinpah and the Allman Brothers. But the best piece here is his searing memoir of his white-trash Texas parents, who died in what was ruled a double suicide. Etched in acid and heart's blood, it is a terse masterpiece. * Newsweek *
Your gonzo journalism library isn't complete without him. * Ruminator *
Table of Contents
- Foreword by Dave Hickey: Magazine Writer
- Star-Crossed: A Biographical Sketch of Grover Lewis by Jan Reid and W. K. Stratton
- Part I. Movies
- Splendor in the Short Grass: The Making of The Last Picture Show
- Sam Peckinpah in Mexico: Over-Learning with El Jefe
- Up in Fat City: On the Set with Keach and Huston
- One Step over the Fucked-Up Line with Robert Mitchum
- Who's the Bull Goose Loony Here?
- Excerpt from The Code of the West (unfinished novel)
- Cowboy Movie in Black and White (poem)
- Old Movies in My Mind
- Part II. Music
- Dirge for a Bird
- The Hard Traveling of Woody Guthrie
- Lookin' for Lightnin'
- Hitting the Note with the Allman Brothers Band
- Stones Concert
- Part III. Loss
- The Wreckage Children (poem)
- Goodbye If You Call That Gone
- The Legacy of Huckleberry Finn
- Cracker Eden: Oak Cliff—a Report, a Memoir
- Hillbilly Song (poem)
- A Cracker's Farewell: A Remembrance by Robert Draper
- Thanks for the Use of the Hall (poem)
