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Keep THIS Quiet Too! – “HST Books” Review

Marty Flynn is in with a review and it's very very gratifying that he sums the book up under "risktaking": In this book Margaret goes an extra few steps to open her heart and lay bare. Having read the first volume the line was baited. Her words were jangling on the hook. I couldn’t help but bite and from the first few pages she reeled me in. Before long I’m immersed in her world. It looked to me like a world filled with constant risk. The risk being getting hurt, not physically but…. Hurt in lo...
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Sibiu, Romania, Photos – Home of Saeculum Univ. Press

Saeculum University Press published the Keep This Quiet! books and many of my Love in Transition books before that. These photos are from Sibiu, Romania, where I used to spend time each year, pulling together my books. A wonderful place to write. The top photo comes from the Sibiu website. Here's another photo of the town, which was a Cultural Capital of Europe, with Luxembourg, in 2007. Look at all the atmosphere in this 900-year-old town of a little over 100,000 people. Of course, the Belgian ...
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On “Hell’s Angels”

This is a review of Hell's Angels I came across by Christopher Allen, on the website Notes from Underground. He just read it for the first time. Wonderfully written review: The book is amazing. It's objective, biased, horrifying and profound. At times you feel like you're reading a nature book on some brutish animal and at other times you feel like you're peeking into the soul of all mankind. There is never a dull moment and at times you feel scared for the author. At other times you feel jealo...
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“Ancient” Photo – NYC

--Digging way back into the past: The above photo is from the time I met Hunter S. Thompson.  Hunter gave me the Keep This Quiet! cover photo of himself while Hell's Angels was being copy edited, or just after. He handwrote his age, 25, with a few words, on the back. Below, jumping over many years, is a review of Volume I: KEEP THIS QUIET! a memoir: My Relationship with Hunter S. Thompson, Milton Klonsky, and Jan Mensaert by Margaret A. Harrell is a masterpiece! I never expected to say ...
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Time Magazine on U.S. Satire

Following up, the third link that Paul Krassner sent me is right here. It's part of the U.S. magazines' look-back at types of satire that used to exist in the U.S. - The Realist (founded by Paul Krassner) being notable. A sneak peak: It wasn’t just a matter of readers being unfamiliar with the title of a foreign-language newspaper. Rather, the whole idea of Charlie Hebdo is foreign to American readers, because no real equivalent exists. Topical, political humor is popular in the U.S., but in re...
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Midwest Book Review – Biography

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The Midwest Book Review - Biography - has a new review of Keep This Quiet! III: Initiations. Actually, it's the very first press review. The new stuff is in the second paragraph. Highly gratifying that they like the books!! Synopsis: 'Keep This Quiet! III – Initiations' begins in the C. G. Jung Institute Zurich, where Margaret was enrolled in 1984. She is headed for a big initiation there, which she narrates for us – showing how initiations are life-transforming. Notably, she also dives into th...
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Midwest Book Review – Biography Shelf

May 2014 Keep This Quiet! III: Initiations Margaret A. Hall Seculum University Press 5048 Amber Clay Lane, Raleigh, NC 27612 9780983704560, $17.95, 324pp, www.amazon.com Synopsis: Keep This Quiet! III - Initiations begins in the C. G. Jung Institute Zurich, where Margaret was enrolled in 1984. She is headed for a big initiation there, which she narrates for us - showing how initiations are life-transforming. Notably, she also dives into the debate between physicist Wolfgang Pauli and psy...
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Panel I’ll Be in at Quail Ridge Books

How to Write and Publish Your Memoir workshop with Stacey Cochran Saturday, Oct 12 6:30pm Quail Ridge Books & Music Raleigh, NC   Raleigh "Write to Publish" organizer Stacey Cochran will lead a panel discussion with authors Margaret A. Harrell and Lilith Giardini on how to write and publish your memoir. This event is free to attend, and newcomers are welcome. Ms. Harrell's memoir Keep This Quiet! My Relationship with Hunter S. Thompson, Milton Klonsky, and Jan Mensaert chronic...
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Mindquest Book Review

This comes from The Mindquest Review of Books: Subject: The author's highly intimate memoir includes her business and close relationship with Hunter S. Thompson, the father of Gonzo journalism and author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. The literary memoir includes a spiritual initiation at the Jung Zurich Institute. New insights about poet Milton Klonsky, and later husband poet Jan Mensaert included. Noteworthy: The understandable defining of intuitive transformation, when Harrell was a...
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