Hunter Thompson new book - Margaret A. Harrell

Sibiu, Romania, was, with Luxembourg, the "cultural capital of Europe" for 2007. It's awaiting confirmation that the city center is on the World Heritage list of UNESCO. Today I received an e-mail from a professor there, who is my publisher, with a link to a new, beautiful website that shows pictures of streets and other sights there. Here it is. Just click the link above for more photos. While I lived in Belgium, I wandered these streets for weeks each year.

Quail Ridge Books

Quail Ridge Books and Music is the Indie bookstore in Raleigh, NC. New to their shelves is Keep This Quiet! If you happen to be wandering around that shopping mall - for instance, at Whole Foods - go in and take a look. They have a large selection of books and a stream of author events. They are also very likely to be supporting local authors. Do not believe the website info that they have to order the book. I can guarantee you they have it in stock - as of right now - just waiting for customers...

Ron Whitehead’s Review

Ron Whitehead sent me a "short review" of Keep This Quiet! Every word, I would like to frame. For whoever is interested, I posted it in the Keep This Quiet website! here. There are many ways many paths open to us. But truth is actually a pathless land - Ron Whitehead

Pop Culture History – Merry Pranksters

As some of you know, a long time ago, during the publicity tour of Hell's Angels, I crossed paths - for a moment - with satirist Paul Krassner, the then founding editor of the notorious counterculture publication, The Realist. When he sent me an outrageous letter, naturally I kept it and it proved a piece of luck for my memoir. Before reproducing it in Keep This Quiet! I tracked him down and he granted me the right, free of charge, to reprint the letter - in part illustrating the philosophy tha...

Hint re iPad Images

Hint: If you buy Keep This Quiet! for i-Pad, some of the 27 illustrations will be in color. All of the HST signature drawings will. I recommend buying the iPad version in iPad, not a Kindle app, because the Keep This Quiet! designer transferred the 27 images individually into the iPad file, resized to fit the iPad page. This took several hours. I don't think an app can do this mechanically, as before the designer made the adjustments, the illustrations sometimes broke in the middle of the page....

Marvelous Review

I can't help reproducing such a review newly on Amazon. It seems - from this one and another, in the Portland Book Review (which will come out in December) - that an audience is defining itself beyond the one originally defined by me. Bravo and thanksgiving. This one involves artists and people struggling with the intricacies of their relationships. By the way, Keep This Quiet just went live on i-Pad. It was already live in Kindle and Nook. I cannot see it in the i-Pad display and would love ...

Jim Silberman and e-books

I talked to Jim Silberman (my boss and Hunter's editor at Random House) recently, and he said he liked using the Kindle for reading. He owns one, and so does his wife. This leads to the news that Keep This Quiet! is now in the chain of books waiting to be published on Kindle and the i-Pad. Getting them put into mobi-pocket and e-pub was a long process, as any book with photos has a more difficult road. Keep This Quiet! has 27 illustrations. By tomorrow it should be for sale on both readers. May...

Nov. 21 – NPR Interview

Hi, I hope I get the word out about the new date (the 21st) to everyone who plans to tune in to the NPR interview on Keep This Quiet! Jim Engster is doing the interview and anyone can ask questions here: Call The Jim Engster show at (225) 297-5633. Tweet Jim @WRKF #JimEngster. Jim phoned me today and asked to switch the date. His site says: Jim Engster is the president of the Louisiana Radio Network, which provides news coverage to 80 affiliate stations. Engster also holds the positi...

“Live” Is a Glorious Word

Today I opened the B & N preorder page, and there it was: Ahead of Schedule - LIVE!! The price has gone up a few cents, to a 28% discount - still under $13.00. But the big news is that Keep This Quiet! is available there for immediate delivery, three days ahead of the announced pub date of the 15th. I had visions of the very opposite happening because the book had popped up for preorder before there was even an Ingram account set up. Now the "magic" is continuing to work. And I thank everyo...

Photo

Nick Storm, the filmmaker who is doing a documentary on the Louisville Beat poet Ron Whitehead, took some time off, before the Gonzo Fest, to read Keep This Quiet. And set up a lovely image with his filmmaking gifts. How about this? Then to top that off, he reviewed it three different places - on B & N, on Amazon, and on Good Reads. I'm experiencing firsthand how people love Hunter. Many of them feel something for him in a profound way, as a writer and also as what he modeled and dared. Cli...