Honorable Mention, Carr P. Collins Award for Best Book of
Nonfiction, 2006 Grover Lewis was one of the defining voices of the
New Journalism of the 1960s and 1970s. His wry, acutely observed,
fluently written essays for Rolling Stone and the Village Voice set
a standard for other writers of the time, including Hunter S.
Thompson, Joe Eszterhas, Timothy Ferris, Chet Flippo, and Tim
Cahill, who said of Lewis, "He was the best of us." Pioneering the
"on location" reportage that has become a fixture of features about
moviemaking and live music, Lewis cut through the celebrity hype
and captured the real spirit of the counterculture, including its
artificiality and surprising banality. Even today, his articles on
Woody Guthrie, the Allman Brothers, the Rolling Stones concert at
Altamont, directors Sam Peckinpah and John Huston, and the filming
of The Last Picture Show and One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest remain
some of the finest writing ever done on popular culture. To
introduce Grover Lewis to a new generation of readers and collect
his best work under one cover, this anthology contains articles he
wrote for Rolling Stone, Village Voice, Playboy, Texas Monthly, and
New West, as well as excerpts from his unfinished novel The Code of
the West and his incomplete memoir Goodbye If You Call That Gone
and poems from the volume I'll Be There in the Morning If I Live.
Jan Reid and W. K. Stratton have selected and arranged the material
around themes that preoccupied Lewis throughout his life-movies,
music, and loss. The editors' biographical introduction, the
foreword by Dave Hickey, and a remembrance by Robert Draper discuss
how Lewis's early struggles to escape his working-class,
anti-intellectual Texas roots for the world of ideas in books and
movies made him a natural proponent of the counterculture that he
chronicled so brilliantly. They also pay tribute to Lewis's
groundbreaking talent as a stylist, whose unique voice deserves to
be more widely known by today's readers.
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