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Hunter S Thompson
January 28, 2022
Critical Mass
Peter Richardson
Hunter S. Thompson and the Four Secrets to Gonzo Journalism’s Success
“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.
February 2, 2016
Molly Osberg
The Stories Sons Tell
Does it matter what kind of father Hunter S. Thompson made?
January 7, 1991
Louis Menand
Life in the Stone Age
Hunter S. Thompson, Rolling Stone, and the puritanical counterculture.
October 14, 1972
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The New Republic Editors
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
, Reviewed
Hunter S. Thompson’s book is in the zonked, road-writing tradition of Jack Kerouac, but it lacks Kerouac’s bleeding feelings.
February 25, 1967
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Richard M. Elman
Hell’s Angels
, Reviewed
Hunter S. Thompson’s book is a comic metaphor for a society getting what it deserves.
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