Gonzo Resources

Below is a list of Gonzo resources, including articles, essays, dissertations, and so on. It is obviously incomplete because I could’ve found at least 100 semi-decent ones to include, but this is a useful starting point.

• Hunter S. Thompson bibliography - a very long list of articles and books by and about HST

• Eric C. Shoaf Collection – a guide to an essential HST collection at USSC

• HST’s South American reports – someone has kindly gathered all of Thompson’s reporting for The National Observer and put it into an easily readable/downloadable format

• “The Marginalization of Oscar Zeta Acosta” – a look at the contributions Acosta made to the creation of Gonzo

• “Fear and Loathing in Glen Elen” – an article about HST’s time in Glen Elen, California, where he lived at a very important time in his life

• Freak Power at Poster House – a pdf document with some useful info about HST’s Freak Power campaign

• “The Origins of Raoul Duke” – an explanation for HST’s favourite pseudonym

• “Nothing is Sacred” – some thoughts on HST by Jonah Raskin

• “Unlikely Allies” – on the decades-long friendship between HST and Allen Ginsberg

• HST talking about the Hell’s Angels with Studs Terkel – an amazing audio recording

• “Decadence and Depravity in Louisville, Kentucky” – a history of HST’s groundbreaking Kentucky Derby article

• “Hunter S. Thompson and the Invention of Gonzo Journalism” – a PhD thesis by Mark Vitullo

• “An inside look at how sports shaped Hunter S. Thompson’s ‘gonzo’ journalism” – Bill Shea looks at sports and HST

• “The genesis of the Hunter Figure” – Rory Feehan’s dissertation on HST

• “The Art of Journalism No.1” – HST in his own words at The Paris Review

• “Gonzo Ecology” – a green reading of HST’s work

• Two short essays on HST by William McKeen

• “Hunter S. Thompson and the American Carnivalesque” – another dissertation

• “Debunking Hunter Thompson’s Daily Routine” – a simple rebuttal to the nonsense account of HST’s daily routine that repeatedly goes viral

• “Gonzo Socialism” – on HST’s personal politics

• “Hunter Thompson and the Beats” – exploring the connection between HST and the Beat Generation

• “Behind the Dedications” – an interesting concept: an explanation of dedications in HST’s various books

• “Gonzo Personas” – a look at HST and his good friend, John Clancy

• “Gonzo Frontiersman” – HST at Big Sur

• HST and Orwell – an essay on how George Orwell inspired Gonzo journalism

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