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May 29, 2005
Over Hunter Thompson's Dead Body
Good piece on Hunter S. Thompson and his influence on American culture.
The method he was to use to cover the crazy-quilt of subcultures exploding into the consciousness of mainstream American news was gonzo journalism. Gonzo journalism, the crazed admixture of fact and fabrication for which Thompson will always be remembered, is a literary response to modernity as surely as James Joyce’s dense word collages or William S. Burrough’s crazed cut-ups and grew out of his frustration with capturing challenging times. Most call the above-mentioned piece in Scanlan’s Monthly on the Kentucky Derby in June of ’70 the...
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Posted on May 29, 2005 07:24 AM by kentuc451.
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