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A decade after Hunter S. Thompson's death, his books--including Hell's Angels, The Curse of Lono, The Great Shark Hunt, and Rum Diary--continue to sell thousands of copies each year, and previously unpublished manuscripts of his still surface for publication. While Thompson never claimed to be a great writer, he did invent a new literary style--'gonzo'--that has been widely influential on both literature and journalism. Though Thompson and his work engendered a significant--even rabid--following, relatively little analysis has been published about his writing. In Hunter S. Thompson: Fear, Loathing, and the Birth of Gonzo, Kevin T. McEneaney examines the intellectual background of this American original, providing biographical details and placing Thompson within a larger social and historical context. A significant portion of this book is devoted to the creation, reception, and legacy of his most important works, particularly Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. In addition to discussing influences on Thompson's work--including Homer, Nietzsche, Spengler, Melville, Twain, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Kerouac, and others--as well as the writers Thompson influenced, McEneaney also explains the literary origins of gonzo. With new biographical information about Thompson and an examination of his writing techniques, this book provides readers with a better understanding of the journalist and novelist. A look beyond the larger-than-life public persona, Hunter S. Thompson: Fear, Loathing, and the Birth of Gonzo will be of great interest to fans of Thompson's work as well as to those wanting to know more about gonzo journalism and literature.
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Fear and loathing worldwide : gonzo journalism beyond Hunter S. Thompson
\"The label \"Gonzo journalism\" is challenged, questioned, and ultimately expanded by this wide-ranging, multinational collection\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Fear and Loathing Worldwide
For more than 40 years, the radically subjective style of participatory journalism known as Gonzo has been inextricably associated with the American writer Hunter S. Thompson. Around the world, however, other journalists approach unconventional material in risky ways, placing themselves in the middle of off-beat stories, and relate those accounts in the supercharged rhetoric of Gonzo. In some cases, Thompson's influence is apparent, even explicit; in others, writers have crafted their journalistic provocations independently, only later to have that work labelled ,Gonzo.- In either case, Gonzo journalism has clearly become an international phenomenon. In Fear and Loathing Worldwide, scholars from fourteen countries discuss writers from Europe, the Americas, Africa and Australia, whose work bears unmistakable traces of the mutant Gonzo gene. In each chapter, ,Gonzo- emerges as a powerful but unstable signifier, read and practiced with different accents and emphases in the various national, cultural, political, and journalistic contexts in which it has erupted. Whether immersed in the Dutch crack scene, exploring the Polish version of Route 66, following the trail of the 2014 South African General Election, or committing unspeakable acts on the bus to Turku, the writers described in this volume are driven by the same fearless disdain for convention and profound commitment to rattling received opinion with which the ,outlaw journalist- Thompson scorched his way into the American consciousness in the 1960s, '70s, and beyond.
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Ancient Gonzo Wisdom
A collection of outrageous and brilliant interviews with the author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, selected and edited by his widow, Anita Thompson.
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End of the Road: Joan Didion, Hunter S. Thompson, and True Crime in the Auto-Apocalyptic West
KEYWORDS: Joan Didion, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Charles Manson, automobility In this essay I consider the true crime and automotive contexts of major work by Joan Didion and Hunter S. Thompson. I examine the specific role played by automobility in the commission and narrative rendition of era-defining or (as these writers might frame it) world-ending true crime, especially their reaction to the apocalyptic indications of the Manson Family murders. Despite their starkly differentiated literary personas, both Didion and Thompson used themes of speed and travel to distance themselves from Manson, and yet both ultimately exploited such \"little fellas\" (both the impoverished and socially marginalized Charles Manson and elsewhere the Hells Angels) to enrich their own literary fame.
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The Gonzo Way
Anita Thompson explores the legacy of her late husband and his unique approach to writing, politics, and life.
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