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Gonzo Fest 2023 – New Photos
FEATURING: “The Hell’s Angels Letters & The Origins of Gonzo” Panel with Margaret Ann Harrell | Louisville, KY | North Carolina Writers’ Network (ncwriters.org) Event Artwork: Grant Goodwine Read More »On beliefnet.com – How Hunter S. Thompson, Milton Klonsky and Jan Mensaert taught me the power of fearlessness
On Beliefnet.com – Writer Margaret Harrell on how “outlaw authors” Hunter S. Thompson, Milton Klonsky and Jan Mensaert taught her the power of fearlessness Click to read the marvelous interview conducted by John Kennedy. I thoroughly enjoyed myself. He sets the interview up this way: Never for a moment quail before your antagonists. Your fearlessness will be to […]Read More »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 […]Read More »Tim Denevi, William McKeen, Ron Whitehead, Peter Richardson, 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 gathered at Louisville. KY, July 13. Here are some photos from past Gonzofests I attended. Gonzofest 2023 was held at the High Horse Bar July 14-15, 2023 from noon until late into the night – A […]Read More »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 […]Read More »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 […]Read More »“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 […]Read More »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 […]Read More »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 […]Read More »Allen Joseph Miner
Al has just transitioned. If you want to be truly inspired, go to the Lama Sing Library of Consciousness and listen to the In Memorial video. Al doesn’t just hope he’ll survive. He has proof in having left the Earth 10,000-plus times as Lama Sing came into his body to give the readings over 45 […]Read More »“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 […]Read More »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 […]Read More »