I am thrilled to report that the The Hell's Angels Letters: Hunter S. Thompson, Margaret Harrell and the Making of an American Classic can be purchased again on the Norfolk Press website - in all editions, including the high-end softcover and the limited-edition hard cover, which won't last forever. Below is a review by Leland Locke I like:
5.0 out of 5 stars An Absolute Treasure - A Revelation
Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2023
For anyone interested in reading abo...
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The Hunter Gatherers Interview with Margaret Harrell at the Gonzofest!
This is truly a remarkable interview. It could not help but be with these world-class interviewers of the Hunter Gatherers podcasts: Christopher Tidmore and Curtis Robinson.
She was Hunter S. Thompson's first book editor, helping craft the Hells Angels book. She was also a friend and, as readers of her book Keep This Quiet! know, "special friend." Some even say she was a muse at the most critical time of his career... she certainly pulls no punches during a live interview from Louisville.
When...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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“Disremembering and Then Remembering My Life” – Memoir video
The Carolina Book and Writer Conference has a video clip up now of my memoir presentation "Disremembering and Then Remembering Your Life" at their recent conference.
Human memory awakens and extinguishes at will.
This quote offers a good launching pad for why memoir wiriting is so educational and also so transformative. You can start writing a memoir and stop for a year, blocked by what you will have to reveal. Or you can stop as at a wall because you think you have forgotten. Well, of course,...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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“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 ...
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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 ...
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