Sandy Thompson (now ... Blakemore grew up with Hunter in the Highlands neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky. My grandmother owned a house a block away from Hunter’s. It was a neighbor­hood ...

Portions of this essay appear in Peter Richardson’s Savage Journey: Hunter S. Thompson and the Weird Road to Gonzo, just out from University of California press, printed with permission.

“Hunter had a real sensibility about design, graphics, symbolism — whether it’s the guns or the six-fingered ‘gonzo’ fist,” Watkins said. “He definitely had an eye.” Thompson made most of the artworks ...

Hunter S. Thompson, the counterculture writer credited with creating a new form of journalism in books like "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," was found dead Sunday from an apparent self-inflicted ...

Hunter S. Thompson photographed ... the homestead where Dr. Gonzo wrote while chain-smoking Dunhills through gold-tipped cigarette holders. Anita Thompson's peacock Jesse at Owl Farm.

Thompson until the somewhat obscure Johnny Depp film Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas helped push him back in the limelight. But if you think the documentary-style Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter ...

Hunter S. Thompson's ashes will be blasted from a cannon mounted inside a 53-foot-high sculpture of the journalist's "gonzo fist" emblem, his wife said Tuesday. The cannon shot, planned sometime ...

Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Peter Richardson to discuss his new book, “Savage Journey: Hunter S. Thompson and the Weird Road To Gonzo.” They discuss how Thompson’s literary formation occurred ...

Hunter S. Thompson: The man ... the last 30 years squandering it and coasting on his fame. Thompson is most famous for his “gonzo” writing, a stream-of-consciousness, drug-enhanced style ...