New Releases by Hunter S Thompson

A collection of essays by Hunter Thompson that chart the high and low moments of his thirty-year career as a journalist

Kemp, un joven periodista trotamundos, bebedor de ron y álter ego del autor, abandona Greenwich Village, en los años cincuenta, con destino a Puerto Rico, donde consigue un trabajo como periodista en el San Juan Daily News. Allí trabaja una variopinta fauna de personajes: misántropos, desengañados, fracasados, ambiciosos dispuestos a rehacer el mundo, todos ellos parias en busca de una existencia mejor en el trópico. Pero la paradisíaca tríada de ron, sexo y sol se convierte en prolongadas borracheras, peleas sin fin y fiestas desmelenadas de una sexualidad salvaje. Y mientras lucha contra la irrisoria libertad del aburrimiento, Kemp asiste a la lenta agonía de una isla corroída por el dinero, las ambiciones de Estados Unidos y el hipócrita compromiso de los periodistas. Esta primera novela del creador del llamado «periodismo gonzo», que brilló con todo su esplendor en Miedo y asco en Las Vegas, es la crónica mordiente de una desilusión. «Hilarante, absolutamente real y trágica... Qué fascinante e interesante hubiese sido que, en 1959, a los 22 años, Hunter S. Thompson se hubiese largado por ejemplo a Puerto Rico, se hubiera bebido su peso en ron diariamente, hubiera follado toda la noche y se hubiera sentado bajo una sombrilla a escribir una novela. Bueno, pues lo hizo. La novela permanecía enterrada y olvidada en el húmedo sótano de su fortificado rancho de Colorado, hasta que un amigo la desenterró. Se llama El diario del ron y la espera ha valido la pena... Se trata de una verdadera joya, una novela ágil y bien construida, que deja al lector inquieto y sonriente» (Scotland on Sunday). «Salvaje, agudo, visceral, cínico y sarcástico... Un libro muy divertido que hará que, en comparación, tu vida parezca sumamente aburrida» (Scene).

Capturing the essence of Hunter S. Thompson’s “Gonzo” style, short story Mescalito details his dark and miserably comic first mescaline drug trip. First published in Songs of the Doomed, Mescalito suggests the nascent ideas and energy of Thompson’s seminal work on the ‘60s experience, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. "We live in a jungle of pending disasters," the author warns. Alone in a hotel room in Los Angeles in February, 1969, Thompsons’ alter-ego Duke sustains a fever-pitched bout of paranoia so dark and depraved, it would make most mortals run fast―and far―from this kind of suicidal experimentation.

"Spanning the years between 1968 and 1976, these never-before-published letters show Thompson building his legend."--Jacket.

The 50th-anniversary edition of the classic, savagely comic account of a trip to Las Vegas that came to represent what happened to America in the 1960s—and a founding document of “gonzo journalism”—featuring the original artwork by Ralph Steadman and a new introduction by Caity Weaver First published in Rolling Stone magazine in 1971, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is told through Hunter S. Thompson’s story of an assignment he undertook with his attorney to visit Las Vegas and “check it out.” The book stands as the final word on the highs and lows of that decade, one of the defining works of our time, and a stylistic and journalistic tour de force. As Christopher Lehmann-Haupt wrote in The New York Times, it has “a kind of mad, corrosive prose poetry that picks up where Norman Mailer’s An American Dream left off and explores what Tom Wolfe left out.” This 50th-anniversary Modern Library edition features Ralph Steadman’s original drawings, a new introduction by New York Times writer Caity Weaver, and three companion pieces selected by Thompson: “Jacket Copy for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” “Strange Rumblings in Aztlan,” and “The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved.”

Here, for the first time, is the private and most intimate correspondence of one of America''s most influential and incisive journalists--Hunter S. Thompson. In letters to a Who''s Who of luminaries from Norman Mailer to Charles Kuralt, Tom Wolfe to Lyndon Johnson, William Styron to Joan Baez--not to mention his mother, the NRA, and a chain of newspaper editors--Thompson vividly catches the tenor of the times in 1960s America and channels it all through his own razor-sharp perspective. Passionate in their admiration, merciless in their scorn, and never anything less than fascinating, the dispatches of The Proud Highway offer an unprecedented and penetrating gaze into the evolution of the most outrageous raconteur/provocateur ever to assault a typewriter.

A collection of Thompson''s early writings, which focus on the political and social turbulence of mid-20th-century America