Boom California have published an excellent essay by Peter Richardson on Hunter S. Thompson’s formative years in California and how his time there shaped his development of Gonzo Journalism. It is a well written and well researched article which comes as no surprise as Peter Richardson is the author of A Bomb In Every Issue: How the Short, Unruly Life of Ramparts Magazine Changed America and No Simple Highway: A Cultural History of the Grateful Dead both of which are highly recommended.

To read Richardson’s essay on Thompson, click the link under the image below to be taken to the Boom California website.

Boom California

A special issue of Literary Journalism Studies is out, dedicated in its entirety to the 40th Anniversary of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. For more details please visit the New Publications page.

Also, The Gonzo Reading Project is hosting a continuous reading of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas on Saturday, July 14th. in Aspen, Colorado. For more details please visit the Events page.