New Releases by Hunter S. Thompson

"Pourquoi avoir parcouru une telle distance jusqu’à ce qu’on appelait jadis “les Îles Sandwich” et s’être fadé le spectacle débile de huit mille riches qui se torturent dans les rues d’Honolulu et appellent ça du sport ?" Décembre 1980. Hunter S. Thompson est envoyé par un magazine couvrir le marathon d’Honolulu aux côtés de son comparse, le dessinateur Ralph Steadman. À Hawaï, Thompson découvre que la majorité des rebelles des deux décennies précédentes se sont mis au "jogging", dernier avatar du rêve américain, et que la course à pied l’intéresse nettement moins que la pêche au gros. Au fil de mésaventures extravagantes et inattendues, sur fond d’alcool et de substances illicites, le reportage tourne au fiasco – et le récit du fiasco sera mémorable...

Hunter S. Thompson was so outside the box, a new word was invented just to define him: Gonzo. He was a journalist who mocked all the rules, a hell-bent fellow who loved to stomp on his own accelerator, the writer every other writer tried to imitate. In these brutally candid and very funny interviews that range across his fabled career, Thompson reveals himself as mad for politics, which he thought was both the source of the country’s despair and, just maybe, the answer to it. At a moment when politics is once again roiling America, we need Thompson’s guts and wild wisdom more than ever.

Pubblicato nel 1971 sulla mitica rivista musicale “Rolling Stones”, Paura e disgusto a Las Vegas è il libro cult di un’intera generazione. Racconta di un viaggio compiuto nel 1971 da un giornalista sportivo accompagnato dal suo avvocato, a bordo di una vistosa Chevrolet rossa decappottabile. La meta è Las Vegas, la capitale del gioco d’azzardo e del più sfavillante e perverso conformismo americano, dove si tiene la Mint 400, una famosa e sgangherata corsa di moto e Dune-Buggy. Lo scopo dichiarato è quello di “scovare il Sogno Americano”. Fin dall’inizio il viaggio si rivela allucinante, irriverente, esilarante e disperato. I due eroi, sotto l’effetto di un miscuglio di droghe che non teme confronti, assistono a una trasformazione totale della realtà, che assume le più imprevedibili sfaccettature: da quelle psichedeliche, colorate, fantastiche del sogno, a quelle grottesche e tragiche dell’incubo e della disperazione. Romanzo di grande potenza narrativa, scritto con uno stile lucido e incalzante, sorretto da dialoghi strepitosi, disegna un magistrale quadro dell’America di quegli anni, l’America degli sconfitti, persi in un baratro che le droghe e i miti andati in frantumi non hanno potuto colmare. Il romanzo è accompagnato da una gustosa Piccola Enciclopedia Psichedelica, tra i cui autori spiccano nomi prestigiosi e inattesi come Alessandro Baricco, Gino Castaldo, enrico ghezzi, Fernanda Pivano e molti altri.

Enhanced by new biographical material, a visual biography collects the gonzo journalist''s photography and archives, featuring many photographs taken by Thompson himself, accompanied by writings and memorabilia.

An anthology of the best motorcycle literature from top authors including Hunter S. Thompson, Thomas McGuane, Robert Pirsig, Roald Dahl, Alberto Granado, and T. E. Lawrence Sons of Thunder is a high-octane anthology that brings together the best in motorcycle writing. This unique collection includes seminal pieces from Hunter S. Thompson and Robert Pirsig. Melissa Holbrook Pierson and Thomas McGuane offer probing reflections on the relationship between rider and machine. Roald Dahl waxes poetic on the second-hand Ariel 500cc he bought as a sixteen-year-old. There are classic dispatches from the road including T. E. Lawrence''s travels on his Brough Superior, Alberto Granado''s storied rides with Che Guevara, and Theresa Wallach''s overland journey with Florence Blenkiron from London to Cape Town. This anthology also offers hidden gems, such as Mike Carter''s midlife meditation "Uneasy Rider" and Jim Perrin''s "Travels with a Harley." Facing more than just the elements of the road, these riders simultaneously take physical and emotional journeys, surrendering to the mental release a bike brings. Danger lurks around every bend, but above all is the rider''s desire for speed, the constant craving to go faster and further than one has ever gone before. At times literary and lyrical, at others tactile and thrilling, Sons of Thunder takes to the road with an all-star roster of writers who delve into the pleasures and perils of motorcycles and celebrate the emotional bond between rider and machine.

Die legendären Gonzo-Reportagen erstmals auf Deutsch Mit seinen Gonzo Papers wurde Hunter S. Thompson zu einem der bedeutendsten Schriftsteller Amerikas. Dieser einmalige Band versammelt jetzt erstmals die besten Reportagen und Artikel aus vier Jahrzehnten schonungslosem Journalismus. Ein absolutes Muss für alle Thompson-Fans! Mit dem Tod von Hunter S. Thompson verlor die Welt nicht nur ihren wohl unbestechlichsten, schonungslosesten und scharfzüngigsten Reporter, sondern auch einen Schriftsteller, der zu den ganz Großen der amerikanischen Literatur gezählt werden muss. Wie niemand vor ihm ging er mit den Verfehlungen, der Doppelmoral und der bigotten Heuchelei der westlichen Gesellschaft ins Gericht. Dieser Band vereint die besten Reportagen des genialen Erfinders des Gonzo-Journalismus aus vier Jahrzehnten unermüdlichen Kampfes gegen ein korruptes, verlogenes System. Von vorderster Front aus berichtet Thompson über die Missstände, denen er auf seinen unzähligen Reisen begegnet. Drogen, Politik, Armut – seine Nachrichten vom Rande des Abgrunds sind aufrüttelnd, erschütternd, aber auch hellsichtig, ätzend komisch und der Beweis für Thompsons großes schriftstellerisches Können.

"Hunter S. Thompson is to drug-addled, stream-of-consciousness, psycho-political black humor what Forrest Gump is to idiot savants." --The Philadelphia Inquirer Since his 1972 trailblazing opus, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, Hunter S. Thompson has reported the election story in his truly inimitable, just-short-of-libel style. In Better than Sex, Thompson hits the dusty trail again--without leaving home--yet manages to deliver a mind-bending view of the 1992 presidential campaign--in all of its horror, sacrifice, lust, and dubious glory. Complete with faxes sent to and received by candidate Clinton''s top aides, and 100 percent pure gonzo screeds on Richard Nixon, George Bush, and Oliver North, here is the most true-blue campaign tell-all ever penned by man or beast. "[Thompson] delivers yet another of his trademark cocktail mixes of unbelievable tales and dark observations about the sausage grind that is the U.S. presidential sweepstakes. Packed with egocentric anecdotes, musings and reprints of memos, faxes and scrawled handwritten notes (Memorable." --Los Angeles Daily News "What endears Hunter Thompson to anyone who reads him is that he will say what others are afraid to (.[He] is a master at the unlikely but invariably telling line that sums up a political figure (.In a year when all politics is--to much of the public--a tendentious and pompous bore, it is time to read Hunter Thompson." --Richmond Times-Dispatch "While Tom Wolfe mastered the technique of being a fly on the wall, Thompson mastered the art of being a fly in the ointment. He made himself a part of every story, made no apologies for it and thus produced far more honest reporting than any crusading member of the Fourth Estate (. Thompson isn''t afraid to take the hard medicine, nor is he bashful about dishing it out (.He is still king of beasts, and his apocalyptic prophecies seldom miss their target." --Tulsa World "This is a very, very funny book. No one can ever match Thompson in the vitriol department, and virtually nobody escapes his wrath." --The Flint Journal

Endlich! Hunter S. Thompsons legendäres Meisterwerk jetzt in deutscher Sprache Hunter S. Thompson erhält den Auftrag, über den Honolulu-Marathon zu berichten: für ihn in erster Linie ein bezahlter Urlaub. Doch wie immer bei Thompson entwickelt sich die Reise zu einem durchgeknallten Trip, in den neben dem Marathon-Wahnsinn auch Surfer, Orkane, ein Riesen-Marlin und natürlich der hawaiianische Gott Lono irgendwie verwickelt sind. Der König des Gonzo-Journalismus beweist einmal mehr seine Meisterschaft: ein halluzinogenes Vergnügen.

The 50th anniversary edition of “the best account yet published of what it feels like to be out there in the middle of the American political process” (The New York Times Book Review) featuring a new foreword from Johnny Knoxville. A half-century after its original publication, Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 remains a cornerstone of American political journalism and one of the bestselling campaign books of all time. Thompson’s searing account of the battle for the 1972 presidency—from the Democratic primaries to the eventual showdown between George McGovern and Richard Nixon—is infused with the characteristic wit, intensity, and emotional engagement that made Thompson “the flamboyant apostle and avatar of gonzo journalism” (The New York Times). Hilarious, terrifying, insightful, and compulsively readable, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 is an epic political adventure that captures the feel of the American democratic process better than any other book ever written—and that is just as relevant to the many ills and issues roiling the nation today. As Johnny Knoxville writes in his foreword to this 50th anniversary edition: “Hunter predicted it all.”

Conocido básicamente por ser inventor del periodismo «gonzo», una forma trepidante, iconoclasta y personal de describir la realidad, Thompson rompió los moldes tradicionales de la crónica periodística y la ficción fundiendo ambas en un discurso literario. Pero hubo también un Thompson íntimo y personal que todos los días, de madrugada, escribía cartas a amigos y desconocidos para detallarles lo que ocurría a su alrededor y sobre todo lo que sucedía en su turbulenta cabeza. Su correspondencia es un monumento literario y entre sus páginas se encuentran los pasajes más amenos, divertidos, brutales, sinceros y conmovedores que escribió. La presente antología presta atención sobre todo a la gestación del Thompson novelista y periodista gonzo, y a sus relaciones con personajes destacados de la vida literaria y política norteamericana. Se ha procurado en todo momento que haya un sentido de la continuidad entre las cartas, de modo que el lector pueda leerlas como una autobiografía. «Una radiografía del cerebro de un escritor aparentemente loco y decididamente revolucionario» (The Times). «Humor perverso y una fe política tonificante» (The New York Times). «Brillante y por encima de toda descripción» (Rolling Stone).

Raoul Duke en Dr. Gonzo reizen in hun Chevrolet cabrio - de Grote Rode Haai - gevuld met ''twee zakken weed, vijfenzeventig mescalinetabletten, vijf vellen krachtige blotters, een zoutvaatje halfvol cocaïne en een veelkleurig arsenaal uppers en downers, gillers, lachers... plus nog 1 liter tequila, 1 liter rum, een krat Budweiser, 0,5 liter pure ether en vierentwintig ampullen amylnitriet'' naar Las Vegas, alwaar zij in opdracht van een chic New Yorks sportblad geacht worden verslag te doen van de legendarische Mint 400, een motorrace dwars door de Nevada-woestijn.

Rolling Stone''s editors compile highlights of Hunter''s illustrious career—articles he published for them in his 35-plus years as a contributor.

The irreverent writer''s long lost novel, written before his nonfiction became popular, chronicles a journalist''s enthusiastic, drunken foray through 1950s San Juan.

Sports, politics, and sex collide in Hunter S. Thompson’s wildly popular ESPN.com columns. From the author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and father of “Gonzo” journalism comes Hey Rube. Insightful, incendiary, outrageously brilliant, such was the man who galvanized American journalism with his radical ideas and gonzo tactics. For over half a century, Hunter S. Thompson devastated his readers with his acerbic wit and uncanny grasp of politics and history. His reign as "The Unabomber of contemporary letters" (Time) is more legendary than ever with Hey Rube. Fear, greed, and action abound in this hilarious, thought-provoking compilation as Thompson doles out searing indictments and uproarious rants while providing commentary on politics, sex, and sports—at times all in the same column. With an enlightening foreword by ESPN executive editor John Walsh, critics'' favorites, and never-before-published columns, Hey Rube follows Thompson through the beginning of the new century, revealing his queasiness over the 2000 election ("rigged and fixed from the start"); his take on professional sports (to improve Major League Baseball "eliminate the pitcher"); and his myriad controversial opinions and brutally honest observations on issues plaguing America―including the Bush administration and the inequities within the American judicial system. Hey Rube gives us a lasting look at the gonzo journalist in his most organic form―unbridled, astute, and irreverent.

The first volume of the bestselling Gonzo Papers "Well... yes, and here we go again" Dr Hunter S. Thompson Indeed we do. Here, in one chunky volume, is the best of gonzo. From Private Thompson in trouble with the air force, to the devastating portrait of the ageing Muhammad Ali. Taking in the Kentucky Derby, Freak Power in the Rockies, Nixon in ''68, McGovern in ''72, Fear and Loathing at the Watergate, Jimmy Carter and the Great Leap of Faith - and much more. An indispensable compendium of decadence, depravity and horse-sense.

Ces deux premiers volumes des Gonzo Papers (sur 5 prévus) sont de nouvelles éditions des légendaires ouvrages parus il y a trente ans aux Humanoïdes Associés (collection " Speed 17 "), sous la houlette de Philippe Manœuvre et de Philippe Garnier, puis en 10-18 : La Grande Chasse au requin et Le Nouveau Testament Gonzo. Depuis longtemps introuvables, recherchés par les fans comme par les jeunes lecteurs qui découvrent aujourd''hui le personnage et l''œuvre uniques de Hunter S. Thompson, ils reparaissent enfin, dans des versions définitives, soigneusement revues et corrigées. On y (re)trouvera tous les textes qui ont fait la gloire de l''auteur. Ces articles et reportages déchaînés, qui autopsient " la Mort du Rêve Américain " et prennent acte de la faillite des idéaux de la jeunesse des années 1960 et 70. Sur la politique (campagne de réélection de Richard Nixon en 1972), le sport (rencontres avec Muhammad Ali ou... Jean-Claude Killy), les drogues (dont il usait et abusait en effectuant ses reportages), Hunter S. Thompson met à nu toutes les vérités que le journalisme conventionnel et bienséant occulte. Cela tient à la fois du jeu de massacre et du feu d''artifice, menés tambour battant par une écriture dont l''énergie, la liberté et le comique n''ont jamais été égalés. C''est ce qui explique que cinq ans après sa mort, par suicide, le " mythe Hunter Thompson " ne cesse de croître. Ainsi qu''en attestent les succès récents de l''adaptation au cinéma de Las Vegas Parano de Terry Gillian, avec Johnny Depp, ou de la biographie unanimement plébiscitée que lui a consacrée William McKeen : Hunter S. Thompson, Journaliste & Hors-la-loi (Tristram, février 2010).

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.

They have called him the Jean Genet of New Journalism: In this book we see him surrounded by and living with the Hells Angels, the motorcycle gang who leave terror in their wake. Thompson travelled with them for quite some time, and lived to tell the tale: Drunken blow outs, an abundance of drugs, horrific fights, harassment and paranoia of locals, and acid parties with Ken Keseys Merry Pranksters. The method that Hunter S. Thompson used to write has been described as Gonzo Journalism, in which the reporter is not an inert observer but an involved participant.

In 1971, the outlandish originator of gonzo journalism, Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005) commandeered the international literary limelight with his best-selling, comic masterpiece Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Following his 1966 debut Hell''s Angels, Thompson displayed an uncanny flair for inserting himself into the epicenter of major sociopolitical events of our generation. His audacious, satirical, ranting screeds on American culture have been widely read and admired. Whether in books, essays, or collections of his correspondence, his raging and incisive voice and writing style are unmistakable. Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson is the first compilation of selected personal interviews that traces the trajectory of his prolific and much-publicized career. These engaging exchanges reveal Thompson''s determination, self-indulgence, energy, outrageous wit, ire, and passions as he discusses his life and work. Beef Torrey is the editor of Conversations with Thomas McGuane and co-editor of the forthcoming Jim Harrison: A Comprehensive Bibliography. Kevin Simonson has been published in SPIN, Rolling Stone, Village Voice, and Hustler.

Una acción delirante: así como los caballeros de la Tabla Redonda se lanzaban en pos del Santo Grial envueltos en una armadura de poder sobrenatural, Thompson entró en Las Vegas pertrechado con un arsenal verdaderamente mágico de «nefandas sustancias químicas» en su búsqueda del Sueño Americano. Sus peligrosos enfrentamientos, dopado hasta las cejas, con los empleados de casinos, camareros, policías especializados en narcóticos y demás representantes de la Mayoría Silenciosa segregan un humor alucinado y un clima de terror muy infrecuentes. Porque ésta es la verdadera historia de un hombre que pasó una prolongada temporada en el infierno... y vivió para contarlo.

Features all of the zany, hallucinogenic wordplay and feral artwork for which the Hunter S. Thompson/Ralph Steadman duo became known and loved.

Every book tells a story . . . And the 70 titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth and quality that formed part of the original Penguin vision in 1935 and that continue to define our publishing today. Together, they tell one version of the unique story of Penguin Books. High priest of hedonism and godfather of gonzo journalism, Hunter S. Thompson was renowned for his counterculture masterpiece Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, which described his chemical-addled adventures in 1970s America. Taken from Thompson''s brilliantly entertaining autobiography, Kingdom of Fear - the last book published before his death earlier this year - these pieces provide a hilarious but now also painful insight into the life and the mind of a true literary outlaw.

Ein journalistischer Auftrag, bei dem Raoul Duke von seinem Anwalt Dr. Gonzo begleitet wird, führt zu einem unglaublichen Trip, der eine ganze Generation geprägt hat. Mit Johnny Depp und Benicio Del Toro von Terry Gilliam kongenial verfilmt, bleibt Hunter S. Thompsons schonungslose Beschreibung des Drogenkonsums und der radikalen Freiheitssuche der 60er bis heute unerreicht. Hunter S. Thompson wurde 1937 in Louisville, Kentucky, geboren. Er begann seine Laufbahn als Sportjournalist, bevor er Reporter für den Rolling Stone und als Begründer des Gonzo-Journalismus zu einer Ikone der Hippiebewegung wurde. Zu seinen grossen Büchern zählen neben Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas die journalistischen Romane Hells Angels, Königreich der Angst und Rum Diary. Thompson nahm sich am 20.02.2005 in seinem Wohnort Woody Creek, Colorado, das Leben.