Gonzo Fest 2019 was a lavish extravaganza. It just finished, February 20, in coordination with a Year of Hunter S. Thompson in Louisville that included a Frazier Museum exhibit and a Speed Museum exhibit, followed by a day at the Free Public Library, with panels and music. Photos from those events will follow. Meanwhile, here are two photos by Jeffrey Parrish and there is a post of GF 2019 by me photos at the bottom of this page.
Whimsical: With Rory Feehan
On a panel about Changes in Journalism from Nixon to the present, NPR Capitol journalism to my right
Gonzo Fest 2018 – April 14 in the Louisville Free Public Library.
Here are a few photos, compliments of Deborah Brownstein:
Margaret Harrell – Gonzo Fest
Tim Denevi and Margaret Harrell – Gonzo Fest
Gonzo fest 2018
In 2017 I was fortunate enough to be Skyped into a GF panel, consisting of hip, learned Ron Whitehead, poet and HST friend; Hunter’s son Juan; William McKeen, head of journalism studies at Boston University; myself; and Rory Feehan, Irish author of a brand-new PhD dissertation on “the Hunter Figure.” What a group. What a skilled moderator, Michael Lindenberger (Dallas Morning News). What a blast. A highly insightful back-and-forth. Michael asked me what it was like to work with Hunter on Hell’s Angels. You can read exactly how Hunter felt about it in his own words in long extracts from his letters to me in Keep This Quiet! As for the Gonzo Fest 2018 location: “The LFPL is the largest library system in Kentucky, comprised of 18 branch locations serving more than 3 million visitors per year.”
Literary Panel Louisville – Gonzo Fest 2017
Below are photos from Gonzo Fest Louisville, April 2016. Juan Thompson presented his new book, Stories I Tell Myself. Watch for more news to come!
Juan Thompson teaches me to shoot at the firing range
An Unexpected Moment
The Brown Lobby – Louisville 2016
Ron Whitehead and Jinn Bug
Me with Juan Thompson, Deb Fuller, and Laila Nabulsi at the Gonzo Fest Louisville 2016
Doug Brinkley and Deb Fuller at Gonzo Fest 2016
Molly from LA.
Laila Nabulsi’s fabulous assistant at the Gonzo shooting range
– perfectly safe
Margaret and Laila Nabulsi, producer of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Me at Carmichael’s -Carmichael’s Bookstore
A GonzoFest Featured Reading
Margaret Harrell, Eduardo Ritter, James Mohan This is a late-arriving souvenir of the Gonzo Fest, sent in by Edouardo Ritter.
Frank Messina Reading at GonzoFest 2014, “one of the most widely recognized young poets living in America today.”(Playboy)
Ron Whitehead, outlaw poet, at the Gonzo Fest 2014
Bradley James Weber at the Gonzo Fest 2014. Behind the camera is Nick Storm of Storm Generation Films. Nick was the official photographer of the Gonzo Fest. Bradley James Weber won the literary contest of the festival for the first chapters of a book in progress, Fear and Loathing of the Undead.
