From Hunter S. Thompson's "Songs of the Doomed -- More Notes on the Death of the American Dream": "It has been raining a lot recently. Quick thunderstorms and flash floods . . . lightning at night and ...

One night in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1970, Ralph Steadman felt seasick and took a pill handed to him by Hunter S. Thompson. That was his first mistake. It was psilocybin because, of course, it was.

Hunter S. Thompson first made his mark as a gonzo journalist with a fearless deep dive into the outlaw world of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang. His 1966 book Hell’s Angels: The Strange and Terrible ...