“Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” was the culmination of a process that started six years earlier. Here’s how gonzo was conjured to life.

Does it matter what kind of father Hunter S. Thompson made?

Hunter S. Thompson, Rolling Stone, and the puritanical counterculture.

Hunter S. Thompson’s book is in the zonked, road-writing tradition of Jack Kerouac, but it lacks Kerouac’s bleeding feelings.

Hunter S. Thompson’s book is a comic metaphor for a society getting what it deserves.