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Pronounced by Norman Mailer as "more intellectually arrogant than me," Harold L. "Doc" Humes hit the ground running in the late '50s, ripping out incendiary novels The Underground City (1958) and Men Die (1959) in quick succession.  Although he lived until 1992, he was never published again. This doc, an engaging time capsule of '60s downtown subversive culture, explores whether that literary silence resulted from mental illness or simply because Humes was a '60s-style generalist. (In addition to leading leftist protests, shooting the Beat film Don Peyote, and managing Mailer's '61 NYC mayoral campaign, he co-founded the Paris Review.)

– Lisa Rosman

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