Outlaw Journalist
10 best books like Outlaw Journalist (William McKeen): John Steinbeck, Writer, E. M. Forster: A Life, Fear and Loathing: The Strange and Terrible Saga of Hunter S. Thompson, The Joke's Over: Ralph Steadman on Hunter S. Thompson, The Gonzo Way: A Celebration of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, The Kitchen Readings: Untold Stories of Hunter S. Thompson, Hunter: The Strange and Savage Life of Hunter S. Thompson, Gonzo, When The Going Gets Weird: The Twisted Life And Times Of Hunter S. Thompson: A Very Unauthorized Biography, Freak Kingdom: Hunter S. Thompson's Manic Ten-Year Crusade Against American Fascism
Winner of the 1940 Pulitzer Prize for The Grapes of Wrath (1939) and recipient of the Nobel Prize in 1962, John Steinbeck (1902-1968) was one of America's most important and influential writers. Jackson J. Benson's definitive biography explores every aspect of the author's life-his campaigns for...
| Author | P.N. Furbank |
| ISBN | 0156286513 |
I’ve owned this two-in-one volume for years and finally opened it after Jasmine's wonderful essay-review of Maurice had me thinking of Forster’s probable loneliness. Reading this made me feel better about that aspect of his life: yes, there was much (mostly physical) loneliness in his life,...
| Author | Paul Perry |
| ISBN | 1560256052 |
Fear and Loathing creates a sharp and savvy profile of one of the most provocative voices and distinctive personalities of our time. To Hunter S. Thompson, being a Gonzo journalist means doing whatever it takes to get to the truth; everything from dropping acid with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters...
| Author | Ralph Steadman |
| ISBN | 0151012822 |
In the spring of 1970, artist Ralph Steadman went to America in search of work and found more than he bargained for. At the Kentucky Derby he met a former
associate of the Hell’s Angels, one Hunter S. Thompson. Their working relationship resulted in the now-legendary Gonzo Journalism. The...
| Author | Anita Thompson |
| ISBN | 1555916228 |
Anita Thompson. The Gonzo Way. [Golden]: Fulcrum, [2007]. First edition, first printing. Twelvemo. 112 pages.
Anita Thompson pays tribute to her late husband as a writer and as a citizen, through her own words and those of who knew him best. With elegant prose and entertaining anecdotes,...
Warning!*
This book contains the following:
Unsafe use of powerful firearms in combination with explosives
Cultivation of illegal crops
Impressionable minors being exposed to illicit activities
Piloting of automobiles under impaired conditions
Transporting...
| Author | E. Jean Carroll |
| ISBN | 0452271290 |
This just might be the book that sends me back to watching reruns of the Three Stooges during my spare time. I'll admit that I wasn't particularly interested in Hunter S. Thompson. But hey, there was a neat photo of a man with a gun on the cover so I took the plunge.
Now I had never heard of the author,...
| Author | Hunter S. Thompson |
| ISBN | 0978607600 |
This is more of an art book, with maybe a 25-page bio of the Doctor written by Ben Corbett. But the next 220-some pages are nothing but pure joy in the form of old photos from Thompson. It's great to see candid snapshots of his famed trip to Vegas, pictures of all of the anti-drug pamphlets he got at the narcotics...
| Author | Peter O. Whitmer |
| ISBN | 0967738407 |
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| Author | Timothy Denevi |
| ISBN | 1541767942 |
The story of Hunter S. Thompson's crusade against Richard Nixon and the threat of fascism in America--and the devastating price he paid for it
Hunter S. Thompson is often misremembered as a wise-cracking, drug-addled cartoon character. This book reclaims him for what he truly was: a fearless...
| Author | Will Bingley |
| ISBN | 1906838119 |
Over the course of Hunter S. Thompson's extraordinary life he was publicly branded a bum, a vandal, a thief, a liar, an addict, a freak and a psychopath. Only some of which are true. Even in the 20th century crowded with celebrity, his legacy remains a brilliantly vital force.
The great American...
| Author | Naomi Epel |
| ISBN | 0679741410 |
Naomi Epel holds dream workshops and presents a talk radio show, where she interviews writers. Combining the two passions led to this collection of interviews with well-recognized names like Amy Tan, Clive Barker, and Stephen King.
The first three authors interviewed, Isabelle Allende, Maya...
The Secret Miracle: The Novelist's Handbook
| Author | Daniel Alarcón |
| ISBN | 0805087141 |
The world's best contemporary writers—from Michael Chabon and Claire Messud to Jonathan Lethem and Amy Tan—engage in a wide-ranging, insightful, and oft- surprising roundtable discussion on the art of writing fiction
Drawing back the curtain on the mysterious process of writing...
The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo
| Author | Oscar Zeta Acosta |
| ISBN | 0679722130 |
Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta was famous as a Robin Hood Chicano layer and notorious as the real-life model for Hunter S. Thompson's "Dr. Gonzo," a fat, pugnacious attorney with a gargantuan appetite for food, drugs, and life on the edge.
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