Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone - The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson

Zusatztext “At his best he has the kind of trenchant! mordant wit of H. L. Mencken and Mark Twain.” — Houston Chronicle Informationen zum Autor Hunter S. Thompson was born and raised in Louisville! Kentucky. His books include Hell´s Angels ! Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone ! Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ´72 ! The Rum Diary ! and Better than Sex . He died in February 2005. Klappentext This definitive! hand-picked selection of Thompson's finest pieces ever published in "Rolling Stone" showcases the evolution of a writer and a magazine. The result is a vital inside glimpse of the rollicking spectacle of a writer at his peak! delivering the work of his career to the editor of the magazine that became his literary home. 512 pp. 100!000 print. (Reference) Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone Introduction Paul Scanlon When I first met Hunter S. Thompson in 1971, I didn’t know what to expect. I was familiar with his work, of course, and had read the wonderful account of his campaign to become sheriff of Pitkin County (Aspen), Colorado, in the pages of Rolling Stone. He had been in Los Angeles working on a piece about the murder of newspaperman Ruben Salazar. There had been talk—very vague talk—about his writing something about Las Vegas. Then, one fine spring day, he appeared in Rolling Stone’s San Francisco office. For me, and the magazine, nothing would ever be quite the same. •   •   • If you were a progressively minded college student in the 1960s, certain books were required reading: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey, A Confederate General from Big Sur and Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby and The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe, and Hell’s Angels by Hunter S. Thompson. As an undergraduate majoring in journalism, I was drawn to the writing of Wolfe and a few others who were practicing what was not yet being called the “New Journalism.” It’s funny, but even at an überliberal school like San Francisco State, there was a schism—what was known in the day as a “generation gap”—between faculty and students over this new kind of writing. Our professors considered Wolfe and his ilk poseurs, inspiring some kind of journalistic vaudeville by applying fictional techniques to reporting. We thought our instructors intended to mold us into drones, destined to carve out careers at small-town dailies. I guess it was my junior year when I pulled a copy of The Nation from the student lounge magazine rack and had my first encounter with the writing of Hunter Thompson. It was the first of his two-part report on traveling with the Hells Angels. The outlaw motorcycle club’s Oakland chapter was a fixture in the Bay Area. Encountering a group of Angels was not uncommon, especially after they embraced LSD and began hanging out at dance-rock concerts in places like the Fillmore Auditorium and Winterland. Big Brother and the Holding Company became their “official” band. The rule of thumb was simple if you were nearby: keep your distance and try not to make eye contact. Even in their brief, acid-drenched benign phase, the Angels were downright scary, clearly capable of unpredictable violence. So it was a revelation to me that there was a writer who could figure out a way to win their trust and run with these characters. Hunter Thompson clearly had the smarts and the courage to do so. Or he was a hell of a salesman and a little bit crazy. Whatever. That early installment in The Nation convinced me he was the real deal. Later that day, I wondered aloud to my fellow campus newspaper staffers what our faculty advisers would make of him. ...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Hunter S. Thompson, Jann S. Wenner
• Mitarbeit: Jann Wenner (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Simon & Schuster USA
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.11.2011
• EAN: 9781439165959
• ISBN: 978-1-4391-6595-9
• Seiten: 572
• Abmessung: 163 mm x 243 mm x 38 mm
• Thema: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik