NEW Interviews with Margaret

"Chatting with Betsy" has a delightful brand-new interview with me, "Journeying Through Life's Synchronicities," #ChattingwithBetsy. The previous interview we did bounced all the way to a listener in Vienna, where it sparked the plan to found a Gonzofest Europe - whose first event then started percolating in Dublin, Ireland, tentatively for September 2024. But it was a tall lift to find a venue still available on that short notice. We have a tremendous lineup of talent ready to jump in a plan...
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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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“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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Rory Feehan films my intro at the GF panel on journalism

Below in the photo, the Irish scholar Dr. Rory Patrick Feehan, with a PhD in Hunter Thompson studies, assists in leading a packed-house tour of the exhibit "Gonzo! The Illustrated Guide to Hunter S. Thomson" at the Speed Museum After Hours event Friday night, July 19, with curator Erika Holmquist-Wall in the Loft Gallery. Rory filmed the above video of my intro talk July 20 at the Gonzo Fest panel on changes in journalism since Nixon. To my right is Ryland Barton, the Capitol bureau chief...
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Meeting Hunter – YouTube

Here is a YouTube clip from the Gonzo Fest Louisville 2014, compliments of filmmaker Nick Storm. After a tantalizing trailer, Nick has just put up for sale his film of selected portions of the entire Gonzo Fest 2014. Meanwhile, here are my memories of excerpted from my hour and a half presentation at Carmichael's Bookstore. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26Avx8Sk4dw
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