Hunter Stockton Thompson pioneered Gonzo journalism, a visceral and subjective reporting style where the journalist becomes an active participant and central figure in the narrative. His work plunges readers into the heart of his experiences, offering a raw and often satirical lens on American culture. Thompson's writing dissects themes of disillusionment, the corruption of ideals, and the often absurd realities of power. He forged a unique literary path, challenging conventional reportage with an intensely personal and iconoclastic voice.
William Hamilton, a talented baseball player at Boston College, appears headed for the Major Leagues, but just days before the draft a dead body turns up just outside his dorm room. Will this unfortunate turn of events derail his plans for the future?
Hunter S. Thompson was so outside the box, a new word was invented just to define him: Gonzo. He was a journalist who mocked all the rules, a hell-bent fellow who loved to stomp on his own accelerator, the writer every other writer tried to imitate. In these brutally candid and very funny interviews that range across his fabled career, Thompson reveals himself as mad for politics, which he thought was both the source of the country’s despair and, just maybe, the answer to it. At a moment when politics is once again roiling America, we need Thompson’s guts and wild wisdom more than ever.
Enhanced by new biographical material, a visual biography collects the gonzo journalist's photography and archives, featuring many photographs taken by Thompson himself, accompanied by writings and memorabilia.
Hunter S. Thompson's ESPN.com columns blend sports, politics, and sex in a captivating and popular manner.
This is the king of gonzo journalism's most scorching, original and inspired work for Rolling Stone, showing a writer's evolution at the magazine that he helped put on the map. From Thompson's first piece - on his infamous run for sheriff of Aspen in 1970 on the Freak Party platform - to his last essay on the Kerry/Bush showdown in 2004, via portraits of Nixon, Watergate, Vietnam and Muhammad Ali, this volume also includes some articles not previously collected, as well as correspondence between Thompson and his friend and editor Jann S. Wenner. The result is a vital portrait of a writer as he pursues his lifelong obsession: The Death of the American Dream. Edited with an Introduction by Jann S. Wenner 'Glorious . . . wave upon wave of wild, ferocious, perfectly rendered prose . . . Thompson changed the meaning of journalism.' Wall Street Journal 'The great comic writer of the twentieth century.' Tom Wolfe
'Better Than Sex' is Hunter S. Thompson's account of what happens to campaign junkies behind the scenes of a victorious American presidential campaign.
A collection of interviews with the great gonzo journalist, Hunter S. Thompson
A perceptive and wildly funny short story collection from the father of gonzo
Hunter S. Thompson was the creator of a new kind of journalism and invented a new style of writing. Gonzo was a wild, often drug- and drink-fuelled adventure, in which Thompson examined the politics, people, and values of his times. In the three great collections of Gonzo writings, The Great Shark Hunt, Generation of Swine, and Songs of the Doomed he dissected the 60s, 70s, and 80s with violence, wit, anger, and occasional compassion. Collected together for the first time, The Gonzo Papers Anthology is an indispensable compendium of decadence, depravity, and a remarkably skewed common sense. 'Hunter Thompson elicits the same kind of admiration one would feel for a streaker at Queen Victoria's funeral' William F. Buckley 'No other reporter reveals how much we have to fear and loathe, yet does it so hilariously' Nelson Algren
Als Collector´s Edition in einer limitierten Auflage von 1000 Exemplaren erscheint bei TASCHEN ein Nachdruck des vergriffenen Buches von Hunter S. Thompson. The Curse of Lono ist ein legendäres Kult-Buch, das als eine Art Doku-Fiction (von Thompson „Gonzo-Journalismus“ genannt) von Thompsons Trips nach Honolulu berichtet. Der Titel enthält wie im Original Zeichnungen von Ralph Steadman und wird nur als englische Originalversion erhältlich sein.