Margaret Harrell

Gonzo Fest 2014 photo

A late-arriving memory from the Gonzo Fest 2014. Courtesy of Eduardo Ritter yesterday. I like the photo and what it brings up. The one-year anniversary is almost here. How wonderful it was to discover Louisville and make new friends. See others for the first time! Everyone should attend at least one Gonzo Fest. James Mohan, who is also in the photo, lives in Boston and is an old friend from way back when we worked together in Yellowstone Park at Old Faithful in the soda shop a couple of summers....
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The KTQ! IV Cave in Romania

The image is of the Sinca Veche cave in Romania (near Fagaras)—featured in IV. It has long been considered rather mysterious and sacred. My relationship to it is recounted in Keep This Quiet! IV. It began one day when a man came into my publisher's office. He was carrying a manuscript he wanted to get published. It was about the cave. Quite soon we were all three on a trip to see it firsthand. KTQ! IV is almost out. Watch for it in Amazon preorders. It's published again by Saeculum University...
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Parapsychology at the Rhine Center

What do you know? I just checked in to the Rhine Center website to look at some of their current research and what popped up but a familiar photo It's an old shot of J. B. Rhine and me. Rhine, a major pioneer in laboratory parapsychology, posed for this photo with me as if he were testing me in an early form of PK (psychokinesis) experimentation, in which falling dice in a cage came to rest at specific numbers with mental influence over how they landed. At least, that was the idea. Rhine ...
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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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Rain Taxi Review – a 5-gun salute from me

I am uncorking champagne in astonishment. Rain Taxi Review of Books asked me  months and months ago for a copy of Keep This Quiet! and then silence. Months passed, issues came out. And suddenly today they e-mailed me that a review had come out. With some trepidation I clicked the link, though I know they only review books they like. And there it was!! My jaw dropped. After summing up to perfection what the book is about, it concluded: "Three men, embodiments of three different dimensions of t...
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Rory Feehan’s Review

I am still basking in the joy of Rory Feehan's review on his blog Totally Gonzo. When I saw Hunter - the first day we met - at the What's My Line panel show, he was (now that I think of it) probaby the mystery guest. The mystery guest was famous. The others had an occupation the panel had to guess. I liked the show as entertainment, but when it came Hunter's turn and the panel had to guess who the "real" Hunter S. Thompson was, and then he stood up (a scene that is beautiful now on YouTube),...
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Gonzo Journalism

Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism. Asked to give someone advice on what to do with his life, Hunter replied: "To presume to point a man to the right and ultimate goal - to point with a trembling finger in the RIGHT direction - is something only a fool would take upon himself." But since an answer was requested: "As I said, to put our faith in tangible goals would seem to be, at best, unwise. So we do not strive to be firemen, we d...
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Keep This Quiet! LIVE

Keep This Quiet! has just gone live. I found that out to my surprise this morning. Doing my usual rounds of checking up on it, what did I see but "in stock." B & N still has it at a 32% discount, with immediate shipping. Amazon doesn't yet have the correct information but it will by the middle of next week, or earlier. Then it will update its display to reflect correct shipping date and discounts. In the meantime, B & N has the floor all to itself. I was worried that it would turn ou...
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HSTbooks.org

I discovered the blogger who runs www.HSTbooks.org - and he's in Ireland. When I wrote to him, he posted a blog on my upcoming book Keep This Quiet: My Relationship with Hunter S. Thompson, Milton Klonsky, and Jan Mensaert. You can access it on his site. A very beautiful plug and impression. Luck is around a lot of corners if we just check them out!    
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