Our ten hour journey from Woody Creek to Vegas had been rough, but now, as our caravan pulled into the circular driveway of the Palms...

We were on the edge of the desert somewhere near Palisade when the drug began to lose its grip. I was following the 32 foot, white...

In the final episode of The Rum Diary Back-Story Hunter makes a rare appearance reading the book’s Prologue – “San Juan, Winter of 1958.”...

Hunter worked the telephone incessantly during the last ten years of his life, and his telcons with Johnny Depp keep The Rum Diary alive...

Hunter Thompson’s FAX to Holly Sorensen of January, 2001 is still infamous in Hollywood. Every writer and author’s frustration with the...

Last Friday I found Holly Sorensen working in a bungalow at CBS Studio Center just over the hill from Hollywood. Although still...

The Tiki Hut by the pool in Depp’s backyard seemed the perfect spot to fish for a Hollywood producer with money. Johnny and Hunter had...

In December 1999, Hunter and I went to Hollywood to pitch The Rum Diary with Johnny Depp to producers and studios who might put up the...

The call from Hunter woke me up at 1am. I had been expecting it, but had fallen asleep in my cabin on the Frying Pan River. We had...

“I want FOOD! Rum is not enough alone. I shall entitle my story ‘Rum is Not Enough.’ Or ‘ Not by Rum Alone.’ My stamps, envelopes,...

This Episode opens with Hunter and historian Doug Brinkley exploring the “War Room” in the basement of Owl Farm where Doug found the...

For forty years Hunter S. Thompson struggled to finish his first novel – The Rum Diary – and then he fought until he died to make it a...

The May, 1998 New York premiere of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was of course filled with both fear and loathing for Hunter. He feared...

Six months had passed since Hunter’s trip to Hollywood in the spring of 1997 to replace Alec Cox as the director of  Fear and Loathing in...

Hunter’s six days at the Chateau Marmont in March, 1997 developed into an odd routine. Mid-morning I would wake up in Marina del Rey on...

Hunter went to Hollywood many times and was first documented doing so in the 1978 BBC documentary Fear and Loathing on the Road to...