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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.

BookLife Review, the indie arm of Publishers Weekly, has made its verdict on Keep This Quiet Too! With an eye for surprising detail, Harrell conjures a charged and vivid milieu, even as the story she tells is often painful . . . A journey with grand destinations throughout the globe and within the author’s consciousness. - BookLife Review Volume 2 of the Keep This Quiet! series, Keep THIS Quiet Too! "Charged, vivid, painful, grand," I'll take it. We look for quotable, stand-out phrases and...

For the Gonzo aficionado, A Christmas Favorite - The Hell's Angels Letters, Order HERE If you would like it personally signed, contact me. It's easy and will be a marvelous Christmas touch. Below are some reactions to The Hell's Angels Letters followed by photos related to the book and me. Cover: Grant Goodwine. For collectors, looking far into the future, there is a limited edition of 120 (at $120). For the high-end coffee table edition ($60, 297 pages, many in color), you can't go wrong, ...

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 ...

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,...

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 ...

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 ...

—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 ...

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 ...

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...

Margaret A. Harrell

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

BookLife – “eye for surprising detail . . . charged and vivid milieu”

Christmas Brainstorm – The Hell’s Angels Letters – buy it personally signed

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

“Disremembering and Then Remembering My Life” – Memoir video

HARDCOVER Keep THIS Quiet Too! – finally

A Palimpsest of Thanks

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

My Escape! Nicole Flemming – Afghanistan inside look