{"product_id":"splendor-in-the-short-grass-9780292722309","title":"Splendor in the Short Grass","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDave 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 \u003ci\u003eRolling Stone \u003c\/i\u003ein 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 *\u003cbr\u003eYour gonzo journalism library isn't complete without him. * Ruminator *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Foreword by Dave Hickey: Magazine Writer \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Star-Crossed: A Biographical Sketch of Grover Lewis by Jan Reid and W. K. Stratton \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Part I. Movies \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Splendor in the Short Grass: The Making of The Last Picture Show \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Sam Peckinpah in Mexico: Over-Learning with El Jefe \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Up in Fat City: On the Set with Keach and Huston \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e One Step over the Fucked-Up Line with Robert Mitchum \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Who's the Bull Goose Loony Here? \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Excerpt from The Code of the West (unfinished novel) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Cowboy Movie in Black and White (poem) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Old Movies in My Mind \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Part II. Music \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Dirge for a Bird \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Hard Traveling of Woody Guthrie \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Lookin' for Lightnin' \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Hitting the Note with the Allman Brothers Band \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Stones Concert \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Part III. Loss \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Wreckage Children (poem) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Goodbye If You Call That Gone \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Legacy of Huckleberry Finn \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Cracker Eden: Oak Cliff—a Report, a Memoir \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Hillbilly Song (poem) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e A Cracker's Farewell: A Remembrance by Robert Draper \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Thanks for the Use of the Hall (poem) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400857067863,"sku":"9780292722309","price":20.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780292722309.jpg?v=1730471760","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/splendor-in-the-short-grass-9780292722309","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}