Booklist

Hunter S. Thompson (rev of Great Shark Hunt); 10/79

Boston Phoenix

Matza, Michael The Royal 'I'. Hunter S. Thompson: Slouching toward the '80s (Shark Hunt rev); 8/21/79

Buffalo New Times

Goffin, Gene Paranoia & Wild Turkey Hunter Thompson in Buffalo; 3/3/74

CBC Radio, Basic Black Interview with Robert Draper, 8/17/91

Columbia Journalism Review

Booth, Wayne C. Loathing and Ignorance on the Campaign Trail; 11,12/73, p. 7

"It is true that he claims to 'record the reality of an incredibly volatile presidential campaign while it was happening,' but his reality is openly - one might say deliberately - biased."

"The thesis of Loathing is that Hunter Thompson is interesting - or perhaps, to give him the benefit of the doubt, that McGovern could have won if he had followed Thompson's natural, sincere, unfailing populist instincts."

"The style derives what liveliness it has mainly from a slashing contempt for every institution and almost every person - except of course those few who have kept themselves pure."

"No doubt a great deal of what he reports occurred, but his journalistic art, with all its boasting about honesty, is incapable of convincing us about it."

Cosmopolitan

Clapperton, Jane Cosmo Reads the New Books (Shark Hunt); 9/79, p. 28

Entertainment Tonight

7:25 EST, 8/31/92 (HST, Greider, O'Rourke and Wenner interview Clinton for Rolling Stone magazine)

Eugene

Donovan, Faith How Can You Rely On A Journalist Who... (rev of Shark Hunt); 11/79

Genesis

DeHaven, Tom (book reviews, Shark Hunt); 3/80, p. 21

Journal of American Studies

Zavarzadeh, Mas'ud The Apocalyptic Fact and the Eclipse of Fiction in Recent American Prose Narratives; 4/75, p. 69

Journal of Popular Culture

Fishwick, Marshall Popular Culture and the New Journalism; Summer/75, p. 99

Hough, George A. 3rd How "New"?; p. 114

"And it is, to some extent, the eye of someone come fresh to the scene, not jaded by journalistic tradition or the sterile approach to reporting that has become so common in the newspaper. Hunter Thompson is a good example of this fresh reportorial vision."

Culbert, David H TV/N.J.; p. 168

Jacobson, Kent The Freaking New Journalism; p. 183

Landreth, Elizabeth There Shall Be No Night: Las Vegas; p. 197

Green, James Gonzo; Summer/75, p. 204

"If there is an experimental, radical or lunatic branch to respond to the experimental, radical and lunatic fringes of society, certainly Hunter Thompson's GONZO journalism must move to the head of the class...some would have it move to the corner with the trash."

Weirather, Larry Tom Wolfe's Snake River Canyon Jump; p. 211

Van Dellen, Robert J. We've Been Had by the New Journalism: A Put Down; p. 219

English, John W What Professionals Say; p. 232

"Hunter Thompson, though, had been doing New Journalism with his Hell's Angels book long before a movement was recognized, and only retroactively got credit for it." - Roger Rapoport

Library Journal

Greene, Ravonne Songs of the Doomed (audio review); 6/15/91, p. 125

London Magazine

Raban, Jonathan The New Mongrel; June,July/73, p. 96

"It's taken me a month to get through it, and Thompson's slickly unpleasant sentences still stick in the gullet." - on Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

"No hood or cop could be as unbuttoned, as obscene and sensitive and open, as Hunter, motherfucking his way over the typewriter keys like an attentive secretary to his own subconscious."

Los Angeles

(Shark Hunt rev) In the Bookstores; 9/79

Shindler, Merrill Film Review (Where the Buffalo Roam); 6/80, p. 225

(publication unknown)

Fensch, Thomas Mixed Bag of Gonzoism (rev of Shark Hunt); 1979, p. 12

MediaWeek

Garcia, Shelly Western market monitor; 1/28/91, p. 27

More: A Journalism Review

Lukas, J. Anthony The Prince of Gonzo; 11/72, p. 4

Gonzo Goes to War; 7/75, p. 22

Drosnin, Michael 7-8/76, p. 18

Mother Jones

Klein, Joe The New! Old! New!! Journalism!!! (rev of Shark Hunt); 12/79, p. 62

National Review

Vigilante, Richard Lost Generation (Swine rev); 9/16/88, p. 52

"The book is obsessively political. Thompson has always had strong prejudices, but these days that's all he has."

"Generation of Swine is no more than a wish-fulfillment of a slightly deranged registered Democrat."

New Leader

Lekechman, Robert Swine (review); 11/28/88, p. 21

"Thompson is fun to read, less as a prophet than an irreverent commentator on our deplorable politics. No non-gonzo treats American politicians with the scorn and of course loathing that too many of them merit. I forgive the man his lapse into compassion for the Seven Dwarfs. None of us is perfect."

New Republic

Plummer, William Great Shark Hunt; 8/25/79, pp. 36-7

"During the reign of Richard Nixon, Thompson set out to be to journalism what Francois Villon once was to poetry."

New Statesman & Society

French, Sean Generation of Swine; 11/11/88, p. 33

Newsweek

DeFrank, T.M. Catcher in the Wry; 5/1/72, p. 65

"No other political writer captured George McGovern's sorrowful reaction to the news that Iowa Sen. Harold Hughes had endorsed the candidacy of Edmund Muskie quite as graphically as Thompson, in an on-scene report from the men's room of a hotel in Exeter." - DeFrank

"Guys write down what a candidate says and report it when they know damn well he's lying." - HST

Kroll, Jack Writing High (Where the Buffalo Roam); 5/12/80, p. 93

New West

Movie Review; 5/19/80, p. 38

Fearless Toasting in Movieland; 5/8/78, p. 6

Fullington, Greg Shark Hunter; 9/24/79, p. 88

New York

Southers, T. Curse of Lono; 11/7/83, p. 16:91-2

Books (excerpt from The Curse of Lono); 9/19/83, p. 92

Koenig, Rhoda Generation of Swine (review); 7/3-10/89, p. 144

"One does not, though, read Thompson for his prophetic skills but for his sober, unflinching anarchy, his confrontations with human and animal pit bulls and carrion birds."

McGill, Deborah The New Journalism Revisited; 12/80, p. 91

"Thompson is a windbag on the subject of Nixon and Republicanism, and half of his collected works is not writing but ranting. One wouldn't mind if the other half weren't so keen."

New Yorker

Angell, Roger Where the Buffalo Roam (rev); 5/12/80, p. 112

New York Review of Books

Plimpton, George Last Laugh; 8/4/77, p. 29

People

Curse of Lono (review); 12/5/83, p. 16

Novak, Ralph; Kaufman, Joanne Picks & Pans; New in Paperback (rev Swine); 9/18/89, p. 33

Sound Bites; Money Talks; 10/4/89, p. 99

Nelson, Sara Songs of the Doomed (review); 3/4/91, p. 27

Fink, Mitchell Fear & Loathing & Drinking on the Lecture Trail; 4/22/91, p. 37

Philadelphia Magazine

Mascaro, John Generation of Swine; 10/88, p. 79

Playboy

Books (rev of Great Shark Hunt); 9/79

Lupica, Mike Books: Shooting from the Lip; 6/88, p. 22

Publishers' Weekly

Crichton, Jennifer F&L Hawaii/rev; 7/1/83, p. 69

"Thompson's main story is usually where the main story, as commonly perceived, is not, and so the marathon is just a fraction of the book."

Book Review: The Great Shark Hunt; 3/21/79, p. 64

Saturday Night

McFarlane, David Songs of the Doomed (rev); 3/91, p. 62

Saturday Review

Kanon, Jonathan Madness & Filigree;4/21/73, p. 76

Texas Observer

Johnson, Reilly (rev); 8/8/80, p. 14-17

Time

Best Seller List, Nonfiction; 10/12/79, p. 104

USA Today

Kellman, Steve Swine (review); 11/88, p. 117:96

"Thompson's rant is informed by a powerful moral indignation, rage at the perversion of the American Dream."

Election '92...His Generation: (Greider, Wenner, O'Rourke and HST interview)

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