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 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 ...

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 ...

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

If you talk to people who knew Hunter S. Thompson, born 74 years ago this week ... Before Vegas, Hunter's patented brand of Gonzo Journalism—the deeply personal, ferociously hallucinogenic ...

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 ...

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 ...

So larger-than-life that he eventually felt overshadowed by his own mythos, Hunter S. Thompson gets definitive docu treatment in "Gonzo." So larger-than-life that he eventually felt overshadowed ...