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Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson

Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson

Hunter S. Thompson

Seth Mnookin / 2000 From Brill's Content, December 2000/Januan- 2001, pp. 116-19, 169-70. Reprinted with the permission of Seth Mnookin. Thirty years ago, Hunter S. Thompson, like H. L. Mencken before him, forced America to look at ...
Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American ...

Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American ...

Hunter S. Thompson

We are on the brink. Yes. I have an idea.' When Hunter S. Thompson has an idea, you just have to listen – and he shares many of his unique ideas in this collection of journalism, social commentary, short fiction and autobiography.
Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga

Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga

Hunter S. Thompson

Gonzo journalist and literary roustabout Hunter S. Thompson flies with the angels—Hell’s Angels, that is—in this short work of nonfiction. “California, Labor Day weekend . . . early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw ...
Stories I Tell Myself: Growing Up with Hunter S. Thompson

Stories I Tell Myself: Growing Up with Hunter S. Thompson

Juan F. Thompson

Now Juan Thompson tells the story of his father and of their getting to know each other during their forty-one fraught years together.
Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series

Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series

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SEE Thompson, Clara A. Thompson, B. SEE Thompson, Patricia L. Thompson, Billy. SEE Thompson, W. L. Thompson, Bobby. IN GOD WE TRUST. Thompson, Bruce. I WASH MY HANDS OF THIS WHOLE MESS. Thompson, Buddy.
The Curse of Lono

The Curse of Lono

Hunter S. Thompson

This curious book, considered an oddity among Hunter's oeuvre, has been long out of print, prompting collectors to search high and low for an original copy.
Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an ...

Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an ...

Hunter S. Thompson

Brazen, incisive, and outrageous as ever, this second volume of Thompson’s private correspondence is the highly anticipated follow-up to The Proud Highway.
Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child ...

Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child ...

Hunter S. Thompson

Call it the evolution of an outlaw. Here are the formative experiences that comprise Thompson’s legendary trajectory alongside the weird and the ugly.
E.P. Thompson and the Making of the New Left: Essays and ...

E.P. Thompson and the Making of the New Left: Essays and ...

E. P. P. Thompson

Sheila Rowbotham, Dreams and Memories (London: Virago, 1983), 342. Recording, Dorothy Thompson at E. P. Thompson Memorial, New York, December 12, 1993. In Cal Winslow's possession. Thompson quoted in Merrill, Visions of History ...
Better Than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie

Better Than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie

Hunter S. Thompson

This is the saga of what happens to campaign junkies behind the scenes of a victorious American presidential campaign.
To Exercise Our Talents: The Democratization of Writing in ...

To Exercise Our Talents: The Democratization of Writing in ...

Christopher Hilliard

Thompson to Arthur Ball, 9 June 1940, 22 Dec. 1931 (reporting successes); Thompson to Anna Ball, n.d. and 3 July [1944?]; Thompson to Arthur Ball, 25 Dec . 1945 (Humble Smith and Burdett); Thompson to Anna Ball, 7 Jan. 1941; Thompson ...
The Rum Diary: Film Tie-in Edition

The Rum Diary: Film Tie-in Edition

Hunter S. Thompson

The sultry classic of a journalist's sordid life in Puerto Rico, now a major motion picture starring Johnny Depp
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the ...

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the ...

Hunter S. Thompson

It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken.
Death Becomes Them: Unearthing the Suicides of the ...

Death Becomes Them: Unearthing the Suicides of the ...

Alix Strauss

Hunter S. Thompson shot himself while talking to his wife on the phone. These are the lonely personal nightmares behind celebrity suicides—the deaths and their causes are as diverse as the victims themselves.
The John Hunter Perpetual Diary

The John Hunter Perpetual Diary

John Hunter

A naval officer, naturalist and draughtsman, John Hunter was born in Scotland.
Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark ...

Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark ...

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Thompson, James H.; See— Kulberg, Eric C.; Panton, William R.; Thompson, James H.; Tidwell, Stephen B.; and Gilmore, Robert P., 5,844,985, Cl. 379- 433.000. Thompson, Mervyn: See— Vong, Antonio Kuok Keong; Thompson, Mervyn; ...
Unwasted: My Lush Sobriety

Unwasted: My Lush Sobriety

Sacha Z Scoblic

The single glass of wine with dinner. . .the cold beer on a hot day. . .the champagne flute raised in a toast. . . what I'd drink if Hunter S. Thompson wanted to get wasted with me. . .these are my fantasies lately.
American National Biography: Supplement 2

American National Biography: Supplement 2

American Council of Learned Societies

1 Thierry, Camille Thompson, Clara Ann Thompson, Eloise Alberta Veronica Thompson, John Reuben Thompson, Priscilla Jane Ticknor, Francis Orray Timrod, Henry Tolson, Melvin Beaunorus Tompson, Benjamin Toomer, Jean Townsend, ...
Here at Last is Love: Selected Poems of Dunstan Thompson

Here at Last is Love: Selected Poems of Dunstan Thompson

Dunstan Thompson

Selected Poems of Dunstan Thompson Dunstan Thompson Gregory Wolfe. “The bubble reputation is unreliable. Nearing the end, both Melville and Crane believed themselves forgotten. After Auden came to the United States and renewed the ...
Contribution to Education

Contribution to Education

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They are by Carl Holliday and J. Thompson Brown, Jr. Both combine biography and criticism.142 and 143 The article on Timrod is a review of the Memorial Edition of the poems, which Charles Hunter Ross states is a beautiful but poorly ...
Only Skin Deep

Only Skin Deep

George Kimball

Only Skin Deep is a vicious and intolerable mockery of the whole filth industry. Hunter S. Thompson The only book I've ever read that had sticky pages. Joe Flaherty
The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time

The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time

Hunter S. Thompson

Brings together a selection of the legendary American journalist's articles on subjects ranging from the Super Bowl to Watergate, from Hemingway to Brando, and from sharks to drugs.
Fear And Loathing In America: The Brutal Odyssey of an ...

Fear And Loathing In America: The Brutal Odyssey of an ...

Hunter S. Thompson

Letters spanning the years between 1968 and 1976 highlight the author's biting wit, scary powers of observation, and encounters with such notables as Jimmy Carter, Tom Wolfe, and Kurt Vonnegut.
Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star

Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star

Tab Hunter

In Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star, Hunter speaks out for the first time about what it was like to be a movie star at the end of the big studio era, to be treated like a commodity, to be told what to do, how to behave, ...
Anatomy Of A Doll: The Fabric Sculptor's Handbook

Anatomy Of A Doll: The Fabric Sculptor's Handbook

Susanna Oroyan

Daddy's Home by Carla Thompson; 24" seated, cloth over sculpted face. Photo by Carla Thompson. Oberon's Prize by Carla Thompson; 22 " seated, cloth. Photo by Carla Thompson. Shella by Carla Thompson; 23", cloth. Photo by Carla ...
A Finn genealogy, 1750-1985: some ancestors and descendants ...

A Finn genealogy, 1750-1985: some ancestors and descendants ...

Patricia Finn Hunter

some ancestors and descendants of Colman Finn, 1823-1916, grandson of Richard Finn, 1750-1833 of Adair County, Kentucky Patricia Finn Hunter. Copyright Patricia Finn Hunter 1986 Order copies from: Patricia Finn Hunter 6732 Bonneville ...
The Cowboy Bible and Other Stories

The Cowboy Bible and Other Stories

Carlos Velázquez

The provocateur and cult sensation Carlos Velazquez has earned comparisons to Hunter S. Thompson, Charles Bukowski and William S. Burroughs, and has been called 'a grand storyteller' (Diario Jornada), 'an icon'(Frente) and 'one of the most ...
List of Officers and Members

List of Officers and Members

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THOMPSON, JOHN LINDLEY,M.Sc. THOMPSON, JOSEPH HENRY THOMPSON , SYDNEY THOMSON, ALEXANDER . THORNTON, JOHN MOLAREN, B.Sc. TILBURG, JOHANNES ADRIANUS VAN TIMMIS, ARTHUR CARLYLE . TIPPING  ...
British Autobiographies: An Annotated Bibliography of ...

British Autobiographies: An Annotated Bibliography of ...

William Matthews

524 HUNTER, Isabel Fraser King. Land of Regrets (1909) . Social life & travels of an English spinster in India; her low opinions of Hindus. India Office Library. 525 HUNTER, J. A. White Hunter (1939). Experiences of a professional big-game ...

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