Come Join Uncle Sam’s Band
by James D. Irwin It’s about ten past four on a Sunday afternoon. I feel like I’ve been beaten up;...
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Hunter S. Thompson & the Beats
Note: This essay was hugely expanded in 2020. The new version is found here. Hunter S. Thompson was no Beatnik. For one thing, he was too late. By the time he was knocking out Gonzo journalism, Kerouac had died, the hippies had...
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by David S. Wills Hunter never really liked Jack Kerouac’s On the Road — he thought the writing was kind of sloppy and romantic and oversentimental but he told me he thought Kerouac was a genius for two things: discovering...
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