New Releases by Hunter S. Thompson

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.

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.

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.

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 sultry classic of a journalist''s sordid life in Puerto Rico, now a major motion picture starring Johnny Depp

From the king of “Gonzo” journalism and bestselling author who brought you Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas comes another astonishing volume of letters by Hunter S. Thompson, featuring a new introduction from award-winning author and staff writer at The New Yorker Jon Lee Anderson. Brazen, incisive, and outrageous as ever, this second volume of Thompson’s private correspondence is the highly anticipated follow-up to The Proud Highway. When that first book of letters appeared in 1997, Time pronounced it "deliriously entertaining"; Rolling Stone called it "brilliant beyond description"; and The New York Times celebrated its "wicked humor and bracing political conviction." Spanning the years between 1968 and 1976, these never-before-published letters show Thompson building his legend: running for sheriff in Aspen, Colorado; creating the seminal road book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; twisting political reporting to new heights for Rolling Stone; and making sense of it all in the landmark Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ''72. To read Thompson''s dispatches from these years—addressed to the author''s friends, enemies, editors, and creditors, and such notables as Jimmy Carter, Tom Wolfe, and Kurt Vonnegut—is to read a raw, revolutionary eyewitness account of one of the most exciting and pivotal eras in American history.

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.

A compilation of articles in which journalist Hunter S. Thompson reflects on politics, sex, and sports in the modern world.

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.

Le 21 février 2005, Hunter S. Thompson se tirait une balle dans la tête. Une mort en accord avec la vie qu''il avait choisie - et un point final mis à l''œuvre la plus délirante et la plus féroce de la littérature américaine. Inventeur du journalisme " gonzo ", un style de reportage unique dont le reporter est à la fois auteur et héros, Thompson était reconnu depuis peu comme un écrivain de grande classe. Gonzo Highway, recueil de lettres et de papiers divers, livre la quintessence de son univers : explosif et comique, sur fond d''autodérision et de saine colère. " J''ai l''impression que les gens préfèrent mes lettres à mes articles ", écrivait Thompson. Une chose est sûre : il s''y montre à son meilleur, cancre surdoué et hyperactif, trublion politique et voyageur lucide, portant haut sa haine et sa fascination du rêve américain - qu''il prolonge en s''acharnant à le détruire.

The first volume of the Gonzo papers shows the brilliant, ranting observations and cultural commentary of Thompson at his best.