“Hunter Thompson wrote suicide notes all his life.”
Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 7, Among The Angels, p. 97
“Hunter Thompson wrote suicide notes all his life.”
Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 7, Among The Angels, p. 97
Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 6, Stranger In A Strange Land, p. 89
Context: To create a balance of power and pedigree in the house, Hunter sent five bucks off to an ad he'd seen in the back pages of a magazine and received his mail-order doctor-of-divinity degree. He began referring to himself as Dr. Thompson and punctuated remarks with his afterword: "I am, after all, a doctor." Friends picked up on the joke, and he was "the Good Doctor" for the rest of his life.
“To the generation of young political reporters, Hunter was Mount Rushmore, a living god on earth.”
Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 14, Casualties Of War, p. 244
“Life as Hunter Thompson's mother was no weenie roast.”
Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 1, Getting Away With It, p. 1
Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 7, Among The Angels, p. 111
Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 8, American Dream, p. 115
Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 2, Square Peg, Round Hole, p. 23
“Some of the locals began to think that maybe Hunter was getting out of control.”
Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 16, The Genetic Miracle, p. 299
“Hunter couldn't stop working. McCumber remembered Hunter working nine days without sleep.”
Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 16, The Genetic Miracle, p. 302
In fact, getting the story became the story. His writing could be classified as metajournalism, journalism about the process of journalism.
Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 5, Observer, p. 73