Here 's a long piece by Hog on Ice about the Hunter S. Thompson suicide. ("I guess that if there's anything more ignominious than scrambling your own brain because you wasted your life and you can't write any mor…
Under big red block letters that say " ENTERTAINMENT " over on CNN.com: Thompson shot self while talking with wife 'He set the receiver down and he did it' ...She said her husband had asked her to come home fro…
Have you noticed the difference in how the press has covered the deaths of these two prominent writers? When Arthur Miller died, the press did what was necessary to mark the passing of the man who was generally recognized as a ma…
A bold-faced, pull-out line in the paper NYT reads: Like bloggers, building his case for the state of America around his opinions. Here 's the whole context: [T]his early work presaged some of the fundamental changes that hav…
Tom Wolfe writes a tribute to Hunter S. Thompson, who shared his first-hand research for "The Hell's Angels, a Strange and Terrible Sage" with Wolfe, giving him what he needed to write "The Electric Kool-Aid A…