1. explore-blog:

    Gay Talese’s outline for the 1966 classic Frank Sinatra Has a Cold, one of the best long-form magazine pieces ever penned, written on a shirt board. 

    (↬ The Paris Review)

    Still not sure what a shirt board is…

  2. Novelist. Journalist. Brooklynite.  Happy 90th, Norman. 

    Novelist. Journalist. Brooklynite. 

    Happy 90th, Norman. 

  3. The Edge…there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

    —Hunter S. Thompson

  4. explore-blog: Hunter S. Thompson’s daily routine, a fine addition to other famous writers’ routines. (↬ Reddit)

    explore-blog:

    Hunter S. Thompson’s daily routine, a fine addition to other famous writers’ routines.

    (↬ Reddit)

  6. Artist Ralph Steadman on his relationship with Hunter S. Thompson: like “chalk and cheese.” 

    Artist Ralph Steadman on his relationship with Hunter S. Thompson: like “chalk and cheese.” 

  7. Inside Hunter S. Thompson’s FBI file. 

    Inside Hunter S. Thompson’s FBI file. 

  8. A video tour of Gay Talese’s writing bunker. 

  9. I realized I was on to something: maybe we can have some fun with this journalism.

    — Hunter S. Thompson in The Paris Review. 

  10. Forty years after Hunter S. Thompson loathed the campaign trail, the Miami New Times presents the ‘Gonzo Guide to the Republican National Convention.’

    Forty years after Hunter S. Thompson loathed the campaign trail, the Miami New Times presents the ‘Gonzo Guide to the Republican National Convention.’