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You may well have seen that our new Fall issue<\/a> features a loping and very funny editorial exchange between George Plimpton and Terry Southern<\/a>, one that captures both men at the height of their wit\u2014and especially Southern\u2019s, shall we say, distinctive style on the page. (\u201cYes, it\u2019s true I\u2019ve a rather crackerjack interview with good Hank Yonge tucked away in the old jock-strap, and naturally I\u2019m eager to see it get the sort of dignified dissemination its merit does warrant,\u201d a not-atypical sentence goes.)<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Review<\/em> has published a lot of Southern over the years. Issue 138<\/a>, from Spring 1996, has a particularly rich cache of what the man himself might call \u201cQuality Lit,\u201d not just by Southern but about him. It is, essentially, a Terry Southern memorial: when Southern died in October 1995, Plimpton and the staff collected some of his unpublished work and a series of remembrances in his honor. Among the tribute are four pages from an unfinished screenplay, which we\u2019ve reproduced below. It\u2019s just enough to make you wish he\u2019d seen the thing through, and just enough to make you wonder what the hell the movie would\u2019ve actually been about. Skeet shooting? Drug-addled romantics? The French?<\/p>\n

As a salute to Southern, who died nineteen years ago this month, for the rest of October we\u2019re offering copies of Issue 138 for only fifteen dollars<\/a>\u2014fifty percent off the regular price. The issue features an essay by Southern, an interview with him, and remembrances by William Styron, George Plimpton, and Henry Allen. There\u2019s also of course a glut of material having nothing to do with Southern whatsoever, if that\u2019s more your thing: fiction by Junot Diaz and Milan Kundera, interviews with Richard Price and Billy Wilder, poetry galore, et cetera, et cetera. Get a move on!<\/p>\n

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