Totallygonzo.org Website Review

hunter s. thompson and go*zo journalism – news, forum, archive, audio, video & more. a collection of over 180 letters by hunter s. thompson recently went up for auction in los angeles but failed to meet the reserve of nate d. sanders auctions posted a detailed breakdown of the entire collection which can be read below. i’ve posted these here mainly as a form of record, given that this is the only public information available on these remarkable letters. i’ll be posting a further update regarding the importance of this collection in due course.. extraordinary archive of over 180 letters by hunter s. thompson during the pivotal period of thompson’s life during the 1960s, with nearly. every sentence bursting with visceral, incisive, creative and confessional observations in thompson’s quintessential go*zo. journalistic style. archive includes thompson’s famous letter written the day of jfk’s as*as*ination (the complete letter, which. was only partially published in “proud highway”), and other extremely controversial letters, such as brutal and unpublished. details of his time at the slates hot springs in big sur, where he patrolled the grounds, including the baths, when he served as its. caretaker. many letters deal with writing “the rum diary”, his time with (and beating by) the hell’s angels and the book about them. that made him famous, and trying to get published in the early 1960s when he was a struggling author. all but two of the letters are. written to thompson’s childhood friend, paul semonin, with one letter written to another friend, and a telegram written to the author. tom wolfe. many letters are signed with thompson’s initials “hst” with others signed in type (and circled by thompson), and. numerous others concluding with funny epithets such as “mister magnum”, “boomer”, “dr. bloor” and “whitey”. letters. total 182 plus three drawings; of these, 49 are autograph letters signed, 126 are typed letters signed (with many of these containing.