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Hunter S. Thompson and the Four Secrets to Gonzo Journalism's Success
3 monthes ago | By The New Republic
Fifty years after the publication of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson's celebrity remains a durable fact. Yet there was nothing inevitable about his notoriety or the style that gave rise to it. Gonzo journalism-Thompson's unique blend of hyperbolic commentary, satire, invective, hallucination, and media critique-developed unevenly, haphazardly, almost by accident. That body of work, and the rock-star celebrity it created, almost didn't happen. In 1965, Thompson was a freelancer begging for assignments when The Nation commissioned an article on the Hell's Angels motorcycle...
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