Hunter S. Thompson

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NONFICTION

Released: Oct. 25, 2011

FEAR AND LOATHING AT ROLLING STONE: THE ESSENTIAL WRITINGS OF HUNTER S. THOMPSON

by Hunter S. Thompson, edited by Jann S. Wenner

"Much of this work is available in earlier collections such as The Great Shark Hunt, but that doesn't make this any less essential—a fine gathering by one of the best writers of our time."

The late master of gonzo journalism and dispenser of drug-addled opinion returns with this collection of his pieces for Rolling Stone magazine. Read full book review >

NONFICTION

Released: Aug. 11, 2004

HEY RUBE: BLOOD SPORT, THE BUSH DOCTRINE, AND THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL OF DUMBNESS: MODERN HISTORY FROM THE SPORTS DESK

by Hunter S. Thompson

"A treat for Thompson's many fans, though guaranteed not to earn him many admirers among the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld believers."

War and football have this in common, quoth the ascended master of gonzo journalism: "They are both profoundly violent and cruel and utterly unforgiving, and they both require public brutality by people wearing elaborate uniforms." Read full book review >

NONFICTION

Released: Jan. 21, 2003

KINGDOM OF FEAR: LOATHSOME SECRETS OF A STAR-CROSSED CHILD IN THE FINAL DAYS OF THE AMERICAN CENTURY

by Hunter S. Thompson

""I warped a few things," says Thompson of his writing. When you're a radioactive force field of one, what do you expect? Candent prose that still screws and buckles all it touches."

One of "the last unrepentant public dope fiends" (Fear and Loathing in America, 2000, etc.) is still armed and dangerous after these many years, whether fingering typewriter or pistol. Read full book review >

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NONFICTION

Released: Dec. 13, 2000

FEAR AND LOATHING IN AMERICA: THE BRUTAL ODYSSEY OF AN OUTLAW JOURNALIST, 1968-1976

by Hunter S. Thompson, edited by Douglas Brinkley

"A biting self-portrait of a comic genius, a man whose greatest creation of all was himself."

A mad symphony that plays harmoniously on the discordant strings of Thompson's wild life. Read full book review >

FICTION

Released: Oct. 14, 1998

THE RUM DIARY

by Hunter S. Thompson

"Thompson fans won—t be disappointed, of course, but most everyone else would be better off going to Henry Miller for that sort of thing."

The original Gonzo journalist (Proud Highway, 1997, etc.) spent a sober afternoon going through his archives to find this unpublished novel (his only fiction), written at the start of his career. Read full book review >

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NONFICTION

Released: June 1, 1997

THE FEAR AND LOATHING LETTERS: VOL. I, THE PROUD HIGHWAY

by Hunter S. Thompson

"Although this collection is too much of a good thing, one can't help looking forward to subsequent volumes: Thompson is just so damned entertaining."

Fear and loathing, aphorism and malediction, mischief and indigence, fill this galvanically gonzo collection of Thompson's early letters. Read full book review >

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