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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 ...
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.
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 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'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 ...
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.
No simple urn, no simple eulogy, would suffice for the man who invented so-called gonzo journalism ... with other Thompson fans, said: "This is bogus. These are not Hunter's fences.
So larger-than-life that he eventually felt overshadowed by his own mythos, Hunter S. Thompson gets definitive docu treatment in "Gonzo." Fast-paced, colorful assembly starts with commentators ...
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 ...
Even before his suicide at age 67, celebrating Hunter S. Thompson’s larger-than-life personality was an obsession for many of his fans. As one of Colorado’s most famous writers, the gonzo ...