Keep This Quiet! & Hunter Thompson Hell's Angels Letters

Gonzo Fest 2023 – New Photos

FEATURING: "The Hell's Angels Letters & The Origins of Gonzo" Panel with Margaret Ann Harrell | Louisville, KY | North Carolina Writers' Network (ncwriters.org) Event Artwork: Grant Goodwine

AUDIO of The Hell’s Angels Letters on the way – Trailer Link Here

I went down to Louisville, KY, one of my favorite places, for six days to haunt the sound studio of Bill Hardesty, who took the photo of me at the Brown Hotel above. An expert photographer but an even more expert at sound engineering. Ron Whitehead sat at my side almost the whole time and read two poems by me and the end-of-the-book essays. Otherwise, I read every word of the book myself, a massive undertaking. A huge thanks to Ron, who set everything up. And to Bill for being fearless and gene...

Videos (by Jef Crab), Poem (Ron Whitehead), Review (Chris van de Velde): Space Encounters III

Above, Ron Whitehead, Beat Lifetime Poet Laureate, recites his poem "Discovering the Heart of the World, a Story," his spontaneous Introduction that came to him as he read the first pages of Space Encounters III. Full title: Inserting Consciousness into Collision(s) - rev. edition - A True Fantasy Adventure by the Earth through the Quantum-Entangled World. This is a soul journey in and through and beyond space and time. All of Margaret A. Harrell’s books are connected, linked. They are her ...

Tim Denevi, William McKeen, Ron Whitehead, Peter Richardson, et al. at Gonzofest in July

To celebrate Hunter S. Thompson's birthday this year, a stellar lineup for a panel on The Hell's Angels Letters gathered at Louisville. KY, July 13. Here are some photos from past Gonzofests I attended. Gonzofest 2023 was held at the High Horse Bar July 14-15, 2023 from noon until late into the night - A large bar and music venue. And lots of music there was. See the brand-new TV interview on the GF by founder Ron Whitehead here. Attendees flocking from all over the country, snapped up ...

Now LIVE: My fascinating chat with Robert Sharpe, BITEradio show “Bringing Inspiration to Earth” April 18

Now LIVE: Just click here. My interview by Robert Sharpe on BITEradio show "Bringing Inspiration to Earth" April 18, 3 p.m. - where I was his guest for an hour. The host was marvelous, keeping things lively. Robert Sharpe has very thoughtful, interesting, wide-ranging topics. And he was ready to find them in Keep This Quiet Too! - vol. II of the KTQ! series. BookLife, the indie arm of Publishers Weekly, has its verdict on the book: With an eye for surprising detail, Harrell conjures a charg...

Gonzofest – The Hell’s Angels Letters – buy it personally signed

For the Gonzo aficionado, A Favorite - The Hell's Angels Letters, Order HERE If you would like it personally signed, contact me. I will take orders to deliver personally to the Gonzofest in July 2013! It's a marvelous gift or for your personal collection. Read reviews and a book description on BookLife here. Below are some reactions to The Hell's Angels Letters followed by photos related to the book and me. Cover: Grant Goodwine. For collectors, there is a limited edition of 120 (at $1...

New in 2022 – Poetry and Nonfiction

Beyond Particle Pinata Poems new books by Margaret Harrell (so far) in 2022 - a "galloping" year - are listed below: New Poems - Patching Me Together - Cover Design: Grant Goodwine Following the critical success of Particle Pinata Poems, Harrell's new release doesn't disappoint. It more than delivers. "Margaret Ann Harrell stands in direct lineage with the poet prophets of old while simultaneously being a modern cutting edge experimental poet. She steps off the edge and into the unknown. In ...

HARDCOVER Keep THIS Quiet Too! – finally

Keep THIS Quiet Too! is one of my favorite books by me. Readers often tell me how much they like it. Yet it's not nearly so well known as Keep This Quiet! The human story in it is complex, about four writers' lives as they intermix with each other. Three very intelligent, fabulous males in all their complexity, spread across a continent and a globe, that I, in my "hub" in Morocco or leaving once a year for a month in the United States kept exciting ties with. Just landed on New York City ...

Allen Joseph Miner

Al has just transitioned. If you want to be truly inspired, go to the Lama Sing Library of Consciousness and listen to the In Memorial video. Al doesn't just hope he'll survive. He has proof in having left the Earth 10,000-plus times as Lama Sing came into his body to give the readings over 45 years - in the trance-channel manner of Edgar Cayce. His wife, Susan Miner, is pulling back the curtain on aspects of his teaching and life that she observed at his side these last decades. To do this, ...

“Bold and searching” – BookLife “Gets” and Loves “Particle Pinata Poems”

IN PREMIUM COLOR: BookLife writes: Harrell’s bold and searching collection takes readers on an odyssey of inquiry, with the first and foremost question being 'How to establish that / Yes, I am / One with God and God is / One with You.' But rather than provide an answer, Harrell’s poems seek to use the question as a gateway into a thought-space where the act of seeking knowledge results in spiritual transcendence. In a note, Harrell describes her spirituality as a conscious, living thing shaped ...

A Palimpsest of Thanks

—Behind The Hell’s Angels Letters 11, 12, 13 Palimpsest Time with his old face Death with his skull face God with his No Face Under my own face —Milton Klonsky What did William Blake have to do with The Hell's Angels Letters book? More than you might think. In my mind his artwork was the artbook I didn't work on in 1971 or so. This was the artbook I did. It all went back to that. But let's take the story slowly. 1994. It was an unlikely event ...

FINAL YOUTUBE LINKS – July 16-18 – The Hell’s Angels Letters LAUNCH & FESTIVAL

The hard cover of The Hell's Angels Letters: Hunter S. Thompson, Margaret Harrell and the Making of an American Classic now joins the high-end paperback and e-book, ready to order at Norfolk Press. Below are the updated, final (corrected) public links to all the Launch events July 16-18. The San Francisco Launch turned into a FESTIVAL. Margaret A. Harrell Interview by David Streitfeld Panel with Peter Richardson, William McKeen, Dr. Rory Patrick Feehan and David Streitfeld The State ...

My Escape! Nicole Flemming – Afghanistan inside look

On Amazon , this incredible book will take you inside what it's like to be a female child in the rural areas of this country. And what awaits the females there as Western troops leave, with most of us not really aware what that means. Read Nicole's uplifting account. She lived it. Horrifically but inspiringly, she opts to come out on the positive side. I had the honor to edit it, so I know every word, every shock, every choice to be happy regardless, is accurate. A bru...

AMFM Magazine Interview: “The ‘Hell’s Angels’ Letters”

INTERVIEW AMFM Magazine: The Voice of the Artist Margaret, the new book is published, THE HELL’S ANGELS LETTERS: HUNTER S. THOMPSON, MARGARET HARRELL AND THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN CLASSIC. Grant Goodwine, a protégé of Ralph Steadman, did the cover artwork. Could you tell us about this? How did the whole project come about? Margaret Harrell: It was a series of coincidences—or unlikely events—from start to finish, beginning with the existence of the letters themselve...

Editing Services

Get the same quality editing as Hunter S. Thompson in Hell’s Angels. Hunter often said [Margaret] was the best editor he ever worked with and they were close friends—William McKeen, author of Outlaw Journalist I have been an editor for decades. I get very absorbed in it. Each work is personal and receives my undivided attention. In my days at Random House I copyedited or was assistant editor on some New York Times best sellers; some were reviewed on the front cover of the Times Sunday book r...

Hear, hear: I was not in The Proud Highway – plus how copy editing/line editing worked then: the insider scoop

I’m glad to have the occasion to make these corrections now, while I’m alive. Earlier, I was correcting cemented errors in Hunter’s history. But now I realize there's an opening for a brand-new 0ne. I suppose it's logical. That's why I want to get ahead of it, before it sweeps the Gonzo world, as other rumors have. The correction is that, contrary to logic, I am NOT in The Proud Highway, Hunter's first book of letters. That's right. It's not me. Not in the Bal-Random combo, as Hunt...

Photos – Highlights – The Hell’s Angels Letters FESTIVAL – A Christmas Bonanza Gift

Above: Grant Goodwine - Hunter on the Coast Highway One of many images at the Canessa Gallery exhibit - one of the best. The festival took us back to where it all began, the letters Hunter wrote FROM a tiny apartment in San Francisco in 1966 and after have returned to their original home in coffeetable book form. Join us as we celebrate. Also, this is the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. And the book that started it all, Hell's Angels, had it fift...

I “Make Authors” – one reviewer says – Find the Magic in Your Book

For ten months now I've been on the recommended list of editors for Self-Publishing School (SPS), a highly successful teaching program for writing and marketing, which has clients worldwide. This has introduced me to a large number of editing clients worldwide I would never otherwise have met, and we have had many happy adventures together. Finally, I decided to collect some of the book titles and also some author comments: Man Cave of Health: A Why-To Book about Men's Health: Through the Eye...

LAUNCH Details – July 16-18 – The Hells Angels LIMITED EDITION – San Francisco and streaming

Canessa Gallery - click to see the beautiful interior Limited Edition of 125 The Hell's Angels Letters: Hunter S. Thomson, Margaret Harrell and the Making of an American Classic The month of July in the Canessa Gallery, San Francisco MAIN EVENTS—Pacific Coast Time: Friday evening, July 16—7 p.m. A 20-minute Zoom talk by Tim Denevi discussing Hunter's development and growth as a writer during the time he wrote the Hell's Angels article and the book. Followed by 15–30 minutes of L...

Hunter Thompson at Canessa Gallery San Francisco July 2021

Canessa Gallery which recently celebrated its 50th birthday, is hosting the Launch of the hard cover deluxe edition of The Hell's Angels Letters: Hunter S. Thompson, Margaret Harrell and the Making of an American Classic all during the month of July! Coming soon! If you are in San Francisco, drop by and see the exhibit. The live events I will participate in, and Ron Whitehead and Grant Goodwine will occur during the week of July 15 - 19, with a grand crescendo, I expect, on July 18, Hunter's ...

The Silver Woman of Fire

Elizabeth Upton has mastered the art of simplicity and peace. She inspires us, in a sentence, to stop and reflect, slow down, take a deep breath, be Present. In this book, Elizabeth Upton has written a collection of insights that are simple and profound. They lead the reader to stop and ponder, sit and reflect. “Being Real,” “Life Needs Fixing,” and “Bored to Death,” among other chapters, tell us “It is always time to Gather Your Nerve and Live.” She says: “Listen and pause to the life of you...

Evolving into Your Luminous Body

Classes Join me in 2023 for a LuminEssence "Awakening Your Light Body" course in person or on Zoom. I help you, through the marvelous energies available in the light body and the luminous body, bring your Earth life into alignment with your soul's potential for your life. And if you want a trial in advance, I offer a free "Preparatory Awakening Your Light Body" class for 1 and a half hours. BRAND NEW: If you have had AYLB, I am teaching a very special course, Da Ben and Duane Packe...

Legacy Writing – Carolina Book & Writer Conference – Feb. 13

Join Margaret with Alice Osborn and Larry Perkins at the Writing Your Legacy panel at the Fifth Annual Carolina Book & Writer Conference virtually on Zoom February 13 at 10:30 a.m. Get a HUGE DISCOUNT by using the code Margaret21. What is your legacy? How do you determine it? How do you write it? When should you start? Join Margaret, Alice and Larry for top-notch presentations and Q & A on this. And also check out the other panels, available this conference on the same ticket. Be sure...

Las Vegas Book Festival – Hunter Thompson panel

Watch this panel at 10 p.m. - 11:15 p.m. October 23rd Las Vegas time or watch it later online at the Las Vegas Book Festival. It's very lively and fun, with panelists - besides me - Juan F. Thompson, Tim Denevi, and Rory Patrick Feehan. And tell me what you think! An honor to participate.

International Prize New York City

Faces in Sun Blast, a Film (not digital) photograph of a cloud scene, has been selected for the International Prize "New York City" October 21 - 24, 2020. Looking at the cloud photograph, which I took in Belgium in the late 1990s, when I took several rolls of these sky images every day, then sorted out which ones to later have professionally scanned, I see painting-like scenes in patches. Isolated areas where a "painter" set up an easel and made a work of art. Only, it happened in the clouds....

Wash Post Review of “The ‘Hell’s Angels’ Letters”

The eminent reviewer for the Washington Post Michael Dirda has just given a Big Head's Up to The Hell's Angels Letters: Hunter S. Thompson, Margaret Harrell and the Making of an American Classic in his October 8, 2020, write-up about it inside a piece called "Can't get enough Game of Thrones or Star Wars? New editions on cult favorites are here to satisfy. It reads: Among late 20th-century American writers, none can rival Norman Mailer and Hunter S. Thompson in sheer force of personality, bo...

‘The Hell’s Angels Letters’ – the Gonzo Today review

In case you missed it, there's a Gonzo Today review of The Hell's Angels Letters Letters by Kyle K. Mann, Editor-in-Chief. It opens like this: This is a big book, literally and figuratively. The short version: The Hell’s Angels Letters is a must-have text for any Hunter S. Thompson fan. Lavishly documented and illustrated with the actual correspondence that led to the publication of his breakthrough literary effort, ‘Hell’s Angels,’ this coffee-table book literally shows how HST boot-strappe...

Wonderland Book Club YOUTUBE video – August 28 – Hell’s Angels Letters

Above is Dr. Rory Patrick Feehan at the Gonzofest 2019 exhibit at the Louisville Speed Museum. Rory spoke at the August 28 Wonderland Book Club meet. It was a blast, the panelists and audience agreed. You can see it here on YouTube. Wonderland book club, founded in 2008 by poet, musician, writing coach, and editor Alice Osborn, held a Zoom discussion of Hunter Thompson and the new book, The Hell's Angels Letters: Hunter S. Thompson, Margaret Harrell and the Making of an American Classic Au...

Jim Silberman, Editor, Obit in the New York Times

Jim was beloved by many. The New York Times obituary reminds us of his stellar career: James Silberman, a revered book editor whose meticulousness, intuition and patience helped propel the publishing careers of a distinguished roster of authors, including James Baldwin, Marilyn French, Hunter S. Thompson and Alvin Toffler, died on July 26 at his home in Manhattan. He was 93 In his office the photo brings him to life. How many times I walked into that office, how many authors did, to find this ...

“Beatdom”Review in – THE “HELL’S ANGELS” LETTERS

THE HELL’S ANGELS LETTERS: HUNTER S. THOMPSON, MARGARET HARRELL AND THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN CLASSIC – Margaret Harrell 9 x 12 PB ∙ 298 Pgs ∙ $60.00 ∙ ISBN 978-1-60052-167-6 IN COLOR Collaborator: Ron Whitehead Book available to Order HERE Beatdom review by the serious critic and publisher David Wills Finding the truth amidst the Gonzo madness of Hunter Thompson’s life story is not easy. He was an incorrigible self-mythologiser and the books about him tend to incorporate many of h...

Once upon a Time a Dancer – “The ‘Hell’s Angels’ Letters”

The collage was made by Geoffrey Smith in Belgium in 2000 or 2001. We sat there in his apartment as he started building my first website (he was a friend and an Oracle expert). So I laid out photos and he said, Ah. Have to use this. It was a Fred Astaire of Park Avenue, New York, photo of me with my legs wrapped around my professional male partner's waist. He was holding on to me only by his thumbs! And I was like the masthead of a ship. It was for a competition. I had characteristically kept t...

NEW Luminous Body and Self-Exciting Classes

I am currently teaching "Evolving into Your Luminous Body." Prerequisite: Awakening Your Light Body. This is SIX courses, though you can take just one or two or three. I am also extremelhy honored to have joined the Seed Group of the DaBen & Orin work. Here are some things DaBen and Duane Packer say about the Luminous Body level of work, which is a spectacular leap in consciousness. Join this class (online or in person) if they only have the prerequisite. Check with me if interested. Duan...

William McKeen’s Special Contribution to My New Book, “Hunter Thompson’s Hell’s Angels”

William McKeen, head of the Journalism Department at Boston University, is a Special Contributor to my new book, Hunter S. Thompson's Hell's Angels: Writers & Editor, Romance & Trouble in collaboration with Ron Whitehead. He has been so helpful to me and as well is the author of a marvelous reference work, Outlaw Journalist: The Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson, and many other top-notch works. Every page will hold your interest. You can read his contribution to The Hell's Angels Le...

Norman S. Don & Psychic Olof Jonsson – RIP

Norman S. Don, a neuroscientist and parapsychologist, is in Keep This Quiet! IV. He has just passed away July 10, 2020. Now and then researchers contact me to learn how to reach him. They are actively, currently, undertaking projects about Olof Jonsson. Read on to learn some of the information Norm revealed to me for this site. The video above, which he gave me to post, shows psychic Olof Jonsson attempting to teach card-guessing feats to Norm Don at his brain-function lab in Chicago - on...

Hunter-Gatherers Podcast

The Hunter-Gatherers podcasts tell stories by friends of Hunter Thompson, memories from across the spectrum, across time. Find mine here. Or look for these podcasts on Spotify and other places where you go for your favorite podcasts. Even I, who have followed the books on Hunter, was surprised by a lot of the contributors. They tell their stories in a relaxed well, with superb interviewing. Just fun to listen to. Check them out.

About Me

Having had my own spiritual initiations, beginning in 1985 at the Jung Institute in Zurich, which are recounted in the latest volume in the Keep This Quiet! series: Initiations, I like working with people to integrate the shift and jolts that often accompany awakening to your deeper identity. Another thing I like is to mentor people wanting to maximize their potential. I additionally offer services to “read” your energy by tracking its path—its divergences, obstacles, blocks, and potent...

“Awakening Gaia” Book Launch – Dr. Fred Grover Jr.

This is the second book by Dr. Fred Grover Jr. - just published. I was thrilled to edit it, as I did the first book. From the publisher: Fred takes you on a journey of planetary shamanism as he taps into higher-dimensional insights and flows with magical synchronicities to place Lemurian crystals and sacred geometric forms around the world. His ultimate goal is to counter the darkness in our world by reactivating, reconnecting and radiating ancient healing energies and grids of the Incas, Mayas...

Classes in the Luminous Body – opportunity to sign up

Travel into Realms of Light Receive DaBen's Individual Transmissions and Gifts of Light from Luminous Beings for Evolving into Your Luminous Body - orindaben.com NEW OFFERING. I have been offered the amazing possibility of teaching "Discovering Your Luminous Body" and began the first class in November. Afterwards, around February, dtb, I start a new class to again introduce the Luminous Body, a potential part of your energy field that lifts everything into m...

More Gonzo Fest 2019 Photos – at the Frazier

As my plane was hours late, I missed the Frazier Museum tour the first time round. The next day Rory Feehan returned there with me. With an Irish flare he devoured every detail of the exhibit, as did I. Two of these photos were taken by him. I particularly like the one of us together. As I'd sat in the kitchen right beside that stool many years before, I was glad it was so well reconstructed. A wonderful expe...

Rory Feehan films my intro at the GF panel on journalism

Below in the photo, the Irish scholar Dr. Rory Patrick Feehan, with a PhD in Hunter Thompson studies, assists in leading a packed-house tour of the exhibit "Gonzo! The Illustrated Guide to Hunter S. Thomson" at the Speed Museum After Hours event Friday night, July 19, with curator Erika Holmquist-Wall in the Loft Gallery. Rory filmed the above video of my intro talk July 20 at the Gonzo Fest panel on changes in journalism since Nixon. To my right is Ryland Barton, the Capitol bureau chief...

Photos from the July 2019 Gonzo Fest

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Al Satterwhite on the phone

I just had the delightful pleasure of talking for an hour with Al Satterwhite on the phone. He's a photographer whose work takes your breath away. Below are two of his YouTube compilations - fascinating: Hunter Thompson in Cozumel, Mexico, in 1974, photoshoot for Playboy. The South in the Sixties If you just want to feel good, browse through his work for the fine detail and slices of life. His work has so much the human touch, telling stories in facial expressions and the lens focus....

Exhibiting at the Oud Sint Jan’s Museum of Bruges – 12/2018

Above: Pablo Picasso, The Friendship Bouquet, at the Oud St. Jan's Museum of Bruges, which just exhibited Rider on Horse - an experimental cloud/sun photograph by me - November 26 through December 1, 2018. Bruges is the exquisite canal-lined city in Belgium that tourists love, just a half hour from Ghent, another old Flanders city, and I'm a dual national. Bruges is one of the loveliest cities in Europe, a little Venice. The event is the Flanders International Biennal of Contemporary Art...

Triangle Book & Writers Conference – 2-16-19

If you are writing a book or want to get writing and editing tips, come out to join us all day September 15. I will be on the panel for "Top 10 Editing Mistakes." What do you think they are? That's at NOON. Look for more on my editing background on my webpage here. And also enjoy the other panels. Half-price tickets available NOW. Use the code TWBC when you register on Eventbrite! Where McKimmon Center on the NC State Campus in Raleigh, NC. 1101 Gorman St., Raleigh, NC 27606. Registrati...

At Fall for the Books, George Mason U, October 11, 2018

Juan Thompson (Stories I Tell Myself) and Tim Denevi (Freak Kingdom) with me (Keep This Quiet! memoir series) at George Mason University for the "Fall for the Books" fest October 11. With us via Skype was Bill McKeen (Outlaw Journalist). For an hour and a half, we gave views on "Writing about Hunter S. Thompson." What a memorable blast - on-stage" and off. We had such fun hanging together and also sharing time, talking about our very different writing experiences - Juan being Hunte...

Margaret at the McNally Jackson Bookstore (Brooklyn)

It's official. I joined George Mason MFA professor Tim Denevi and journalist Jonny Diamond (writer for Rolling Stone, etc.; editor in chief of The Literary Hub) at a McNally Jackson Bookstore event in Brooklyn in November. It's part of Denevi's book tour for Freak Kingdom: Hunter S. Thompson's Manic Ten-Year Crusade Against American Fascism, on sale October 30. Partnering with Little Brown, The Paris Review, Soho Press, The Melville House, Harper Perennial, the National Book Criti...

On Location – Gonzo Fest 2018

Author/professor Tim Denevi and I had a delightful time presenting at the Gonzo Fest 2018. The Leo Weekly, Louisville, set up the event in an itinerary: 12-1 p.m. Writing “Hell’s Angels”: Will the Real Hunter S. Thompson Please Stand Up Featuring: Timothy Denevi and Margaret Harrell 1:10-1:50 p.m. Book Signings: Margaret Harrell, Ron Whitehead and Juan Thompson 1:30-2:30 p.m. The Battle of Michigan Avenue: Chicago 1968, HST and Violence Against Journalists Panelists: Michael Lind...

Lifetime Achievement

Margaret Ann Harrell Presented with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award by Marquis Who's Who Photo credit: Jinn Bug RALEIGH, NC, March 29, 2018 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Marquis Who's Who, the world's premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to present Margaret Ann Harrell with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. An accomplished listee, Ms. Harrell celebrates many years' experience in her professional network, and has been noted for a...

Diana Henderson – “Volume of Wisdom”

Published for three days now, KTQ! IV, rev. ed., is still in the top 100 Kindle Mysticism books. It was the nr. 1 new issue in Spirituality/Personal Growth/Mysticism its very first day live. I can surely thank Diana Henderson for some of that. I am thrilled to have the review for Keep This Quiet! IV, revised edition, by the marvelous healer and spiritual teacher Diana Henderson below: As though it arrived with a full legion of angelic messengers and masters of Light, from the moment I tou...

A “grand Synthesizer” – Ron Rattner’s review

In the very latest review of Keep This Quiet! IV: Ancient Secrets Revealed, of which I am quite proud, Ron Rattner writes that Margaret has an "excellent ability to communicate and weave esoteric ideas about science, psychology, philosophy, and spirituality. Richard Unger’s channeled hand analysis description of her as a ‘grand synthesizer’ was apt and accurate.” Rattner, a longtime devotee of Dhyanyogi-ji, is the author of the forthcoming book From Litigation to Meditation: An ex-lawyer’s spir...

Italy – Art by Margaret Harrell

A section of the November/December 2017 issue of the magazine Art International Contemporary, published in Palermo, Italy, was called ‘’Il Genio dell’Art," or "The Genius of Art." "Sun Spotlight on Faces" was accepted into it. The publisher curators placed a selection of contemporary art such as mine after works by well-known artistic geniuses such as "Picasso, Dali. Pollock." That way, the magazine reaches the hands of "a public strictly made of collectors, gallerists, art merchant, museum and ...

Editing – Meister Ekhart – “Only the hand that Erases . . .”

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write. - Saul Bellow BUT: Only the hand that erases can write the true thing - Meister Johann Eckhart Which is it? The words of the famous thirteenth-century German mystic or the modern Nobel Prize for Literature winner? Both, of course. Editing - writing - involves juggling these two basic truths. Sometimes a text comes out finished; the trick is to believe in it and not fiddle around. Other times, most of the time...

Bell Sounding to Thoughts – and Hunter Thompson

The audible, nonphysical bell was a phenomenon that appeared in my apartment in Tienen, Belgium, just after the sudden death of my boyfriend, Willy Vanluyten. It stayed over two years. It sounded somewhat like the watch sound that signals the hour, though there was no such watch in the apartment. It was part of an initiation. More on this and other subtle experiences inside Keep This Quiet! III: Initiations (2014) and the revised, expanded, retitled brand-new edition of volume IV, Ancient Secret...

“A Gathering of Angels”- September 14

Diana Henderson has given me the great honor of inviting me to be part of a beautiful event at Dancing Moon. A Gathering of Angels Meetup Monthly Meetup She gives details below and also here. where you can join and sign up to attend. Or just drop in if seating is not at capacity. Diana writes: This meeting will introduce our audience to some of our local metaphysical and/or healing authors, who will share wisdom from their work to assist us in understanding ourselves, our journey, our w...

Short Podcasts on Editing – What It Is

Below are two very short podcast interviews on how I see editing services. The first interview goes into some of the recent history of editing practices - with anecdotes. The second is about my current editing services and trends in the fast-changing market. It touches on topics like the importance of having a book edited, including my own experience at being edited. Also, there are anecdotes. If you are writing a book or have a topic and want to begin, there's a good chance I can help. A...

Paul Krassner’s Second Letter

Diving into my garage boxes, I found a follow-up note from Paul Krassner that confirms what I remembered: he explains that in my absence (I was in Las Angeles with Hunter during a quick weekend visit) he sent me a letter but addressed it to the wrong person at Random House. So here is how I found out about that and - yes - I hurried down to the Obscene Letters area to rescue it and read it. True, such a section existed at Random House down in the basement. It made for amusing reading, and I kept...

Personalities in the Keep This Quiet! Memoir Series

Who is in the Keep This Quiet! series? and where does it take place?The posts below will introduce major people and places in Keep This Quiet! I-IV. Hunter Thompson, who figures pivotally in Keep This Quiet! I and to a lesser but significant degree in II, has his own assortment of posts elsewhere. Below, you will find other players in Keep This Quiet! I-II, from Belgian poète maudit Jan Mensaert to poet, intellectural, guru Milton Klonsky. Also, important players in Keep This Quiet! III, like ...

Now is the Time to Awaken Your Light Body

What are you waiting for? It will change your entire life. It did mine. And it kept changing it—as the years rolled on. The light body never failed to help me adapt and stretch to any situation. It also boosts your creativity, because it comes out of boundless energy. The light body is older and wiser than any of us. However, its energy, when properly focused, goes right into our everyday lives and energizes us on all levels. I learned this course the "hard way" - by foot, train, and taxi - a...

The Time I Almost Edited Norman Mailer

The End of Obscenity: The Trials of Lady Chatterley, Tropic of Cancer & Fanny Hill by the Lawyer Who Defended Them is dear to my heart. This now-classic received the George Polk Memorial Book of the Year Award in journalism. Random House considered it an important manuscript, and to edit it, I was "loaned out"—assigned to work at the law offices of the author, Harvard-educated Charles Rembar, all day every day for a couple of months. In the conference room, I sat at a big table with him ...

Media

I was very lucky to be in a number of podcast interviews, art exhibits, panels, YouTube events, beginning in 2014. Below are some of the 2016 - 2020 events and YouTube presentations:MUSIC TRAILERS – the Keep This Quiet! seriesMusic Trailers for the Keep This Quiet! series. These are short music pieces and drawings by Belgian poet Jan Mensaert, my onetime husband, that I particularly like and that set the tone of the Belgium/Morocco portions of the first two Keep This Quiet! volumes. The ...

“Using Dreams to Clear Clutter” – Interview with Margaret

Watch it here I have just watched "Using Dreams to Clear Clutter" - under Julie Coraccio's "Liked Podcasts" - and I really enjoyed it. Julie is a marvelous interviewer. And that ability shines through. Also, I loaded the answers with examples, as dreams are storytelling vehicles. Please do watch it. I guarantee you'll find some interesting tips on dreaming. Julie Coraccio introduces her popular podcast like this: Declutter Your Life We all have gifts and talents, but clutter, whether...

Hunter Thompson’s Legacy – YouTube

Here is another excerpt from the Gonzo Fest 2014 in Louisville, KY, where I had the good fortune to be an invited presenter: Just click the YouTube link. [embedyt] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK3f0jeta7k[/embedyt]

An Interview with HST Books about the Keep this Quiet! Book Series

I am very honored to see the beautiful display Martin Flynn created and the kind words of introduction. The Q&A adds insights that his questions brought out. He is a marvelous interviewer and every Hunter Thompson fan should know his site. I also like what he does with visuals. Always a splashy page. Much for the eye. A Margaret Harrell Q&A Margaret Harrell, in my opinion is a rarity in any world, let alone the HST world. Two of her 9 or 10 books include significant fodder for ...

Carl Jung and Wolfgang Pauli – Two Giants

In 1931, Pauli, a physics professor at a university in Zurich, consulted Jung about his psychological issues and alcohol use; his mother had committed suicide and his marriage, less than a year old, had broken up.On the work front, shortly after his divorce he announced (correctly) the possible existence of a new particle, the neutrino. Instead of analyzing Pauli's dreams himself, Jung sent Pauli to a student colleague, thinking it would be better if he did not conduct the sessions in person. He...

Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung: Initiations

Above, Pauli sits with Einstein. Now both men [Jung and Pauli] are dead. Physics has undergone great advances with its grand unified theories and its current development of superstring theory. Yet the central question remains: What is the nature of Pauli’s great dream? What is that speculum that lies between the worlds of mind and matter? Will it be possible to develop a new physics and a new psychology which are complementary to each other? - David Peat, “Divine Contenders” An excerpt from...

Rome Exhibit

Here's the announcement of the Rome exhibit in a small art gallery. Also, here's the gallery link. And below is the cloud giclee that will be on the wall. We're to use this for publicity. So to all my Rome friends, here's the location. Of course, I need to make some Rome friends. Maybe this photograph will do it for me.

Hunter Thompson and Paul Krassner

Hunter in NYC in the Sixties I met Hunter in NYC in 1967 and Paul Krassner, through Hunter, at the same time. We had dinner together and the two of them discussed a story for "The Realist," a very popular underground publication that Paul founded and edited. It was a crackling dinner, witty and fast-moving. The articles below have to do, mostly, with that time period, being mementoes or later write-ups. "Keep This Quiet!" tells the story of those days. A few of the articles below take the stor...

About the Series

The series title comes from the envelope above, which Hunter sent me (his copy editor for Hell's Angels) upon learning what I looked like. And how young I was. Keep This Quiet! comes replete with letters and other materials from Hunter - not available elsewhere - about the Hell's Angels period. It also corrects some widely touted anecdotes. I was not only Hunter's copyeditor/Assistant Editor on Hell's Angels but also a friend. What is KTQ! about??? Kirkus Reviews says Harrell’s memoir ...

Doug Brinkley Plugs Keep This Quiet!

Keep This Quiet! offers an illuminating look at Hunter S. Thompson in full throttle trying to make it as a Top Notch prose-stylist. Harrell fills in many important biographical gaps. . . . Read it. —Douglas Brinkley, editor of The Proud Highway and Fear and Loathing in America.

“Computer PK” Images

During the 1990s, the last ten years I lived in Belgium, I had the good fortune of making the unusual printouts I called computer PK." There are a couple of samples above and many more in Keep This Quiet! IV. the 1990s were a time I devoted, heart and soul, to exploring this parapsychological experience. This (to me) exciting phenomenon came about through some partly unconscious creative process where when I pushed the button to print, the printouts were often modified from the text on the scre...

Rory Feehan on Keep This Quiet!

“This is my life, I’m satisfied. So watch it, babe. Don’t try to keep me tied.” ---And I Like It –Jefferson Airplane song In the ever expanding list of biographies and memoirs about Hunter S. Thompson, this latest offering, Keep This Quiet! by Margaret A. Harrell, is quite simply a breath of fresh air. This is by no means intended as a slight against previous publications, the majority of which are solid and have contributed much to our understanding of Hunter S. Thompson – the man and th...

Gonzo Fest 2014 Trailer

This is the 2014 Gonzo Fest Trailer by Nick Storm (of Storm Generation Films). Finally released. The full DVD will be released in early April, previewed at the 2015 Gonzo Fest Louisville. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbWQFX5_NoE

HST at Woody Creek

The photos below are from 1991, at Owl Farm, where I visited Hunter for a week, not having seen him in twenty-one years physically. I had been living in Morocco and then Belgium. My boyfriend had just died and the apartment we had shared was spooky. I thought Hunter could handle the "weirdness," and I certainly needed a confidante. So I reached out by phone and pretty soon was at Owl Farm, his ranch in Colorado. This sets the stage as Keep This Quiet! IV, revised edition, opens: On January 6, 1...

Light Beings

Many of us know the word "light being." A shaman teacher I had, Joska Soos, used to paint them, as above, in "The Light Sound Buddha" - 2004. I wonder how many people can "see" the light beings I see in the two photographs by me to the left here. I would love to know what you see. The one immediately to the left was in Romania, in a "flying fleet." But I saw a much coarser look than in the light-streaming being at the bottom, in "Flying Being." Yet both had similar overall features. Howeve...

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

In response to a question about changes in publishing, I surfed the web and came across, by chance these quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson. How's this? There's a lot that's good about change. But one thing not to forget, Emerson had down pat: The greatest homage we can pay to truth is to use it. In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life - no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground - ...

Keep this Quiet! IV Ancient Secrets Revealed - revised edition

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