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Tim Denevi, William McKeen, Ron Whitehead, 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 will gather at Louisville. KY, July 13. Here are some photos from past Gonzofests I attended. Some of these photo credits are from the marvelous Jinn Bug. The graphic is by Mary Fields, who works in social media and publicity. Tickets are going fast, I hear. To read more about this Tenth/Last Gonzofest, go here. And here. TO BUY TICKETS, GO HERE.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Al has just transitioned. If you want to be truly inspired, go here 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, she will have a weekly newsletter, th...

To keep my inspiration and sense of connection to Source, I am most drawn to knowledge from something larger than my current state; inspiration from my awareness, which speaks in spurts, whispers unknowns, speculates in large, outrageous ways as it gives me insights, brings potential to my attention. Surfaces. Fortunately, I discovered there was more of myself. After exhaustively covering much of my life, I had not peered closely enough into the 1990s, that grand period when my life was prett...

I have just finished an interview with Victoria Lynn Weston on her podcast program, Ayrial Talk Time, where I share my experiences with Hunter S. Thompson, founder of “gonzo journalism,” along with highlights from my memoir book series: Keep This Quiet! Here is the interview: I thoroughly enjoyed being interviewed by this gifted person. Young and energetic too. Her second interview with me - on Keep This Quiet! IV: More Initiations was just posted July 18. Click to listen. Her brand-new ...

Excerpt from the Author's Note The third in the series, Keep This Quiet! Initiations continues my memoir. As well as being a memoir, this book is indebted to Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung (born in 1875) and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Wolfgang Pauli (born in 1900 in Vienna), who dreamed together of uniting physics with psychology. I attended the C. G. Jung Institute in Küsnacht, Switzerland, a suburb of Zurich, 1984‒87. ...

Here's a glimpse of the classic Hunter car, the Red Shark, gleaming in front of his ranch. This photo was taken by me at Owl Farm in 1991. That story ends Keep THIS Quiet Too! It's told again, with added details, at the beginning of Keep This Quiet! IV: Ancient Secrets Revealed. Of course, there's much more to read, as this was a dramatic visit.

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 ...

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

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

HARDCOVER Keep THIS Quiet Too! – finally

Hunter-Gatherers Podcast

Allen Joseph Miner

On How I Came to Write the Revised Edition of KTQ! IV: Ancient Secrets Revealed

Podcast – Interview on Keep This Quiet! and HST

Excerpt from Keep This Quiet! III – Jung-Pauli

The Red Shark and Owl Farm

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