{"id":289,"date":"2010-07-16T16:05:32","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T21:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.argonaut360.com\/?p=289"},"modified":"2010-07-16T16:05:32","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T21:05:32","slug":"the-birth-of-gonzo-other-tales-of-journalistic-mayhem-in-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.argonaut360.com\/?p=289","title":{"rendered":"The Birth of Gonzo & Other Tales of Journalistic Mayhem in San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"

An interview with Warren Hinckle by Sean Stewart<\/p>\n

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On one of our last days in town my wife and I met up with the legendary publisher and award winning journalist Warren Hinckle at the Double Play Bar & Grill in the Mission district of San Francisco.<\/p>\n

I was there to share my collection of\u00a0Ramparts\u00a0and\u00a0Scanlan\u2019s\u00a0to see if there was anything he wanted to scan for his book, the perennially delayed\u00a0Who Killed Hunter S. Thompson: The story of the birth of Gonzo.<\/p>\n

As he thumbed through the magazines and showed us proofs of the book we talked about his friendship with Hunter; the roots of Gonzo journalism and the culture that spawned it; his tenure at the groundbreaking radical slick,\u00a0Ramparts magazine, in the \u201860s; working with Hunter at his short-lived, but highly influential, muckraking monthly\u00a0Scanlan\u2019s; the Kennedy assassination; San Francisco\u2019s favorite merchants of porn, The O\u2019Farrell brothers; and much more.<\/p>\n

Because there is nothing that would indicate that the\u00a0Who Killed Hunter S. Thompson\u00a0book will be released anytime soon, I figured I’d put this out in honor of Hunter’s birthday (July 18).<\/p>\n

I hope you enjoy it.<\/p>\n

Peace<\/p>\n

-Sean<\/p>\n

Click Here to read the interview<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It sounds to me, and even just looking at some of the proofs here, that it will stand out. People who are fans of Hunter, these are the questions, the things we\u2019re interested in.
\nNobody\u2019s done this stuff. Well, I mean, there\u2019s this book about Ramparts now, and I did a memoir thing way back [If You Have a Lemon, Make Lemonade: An Essential Memoir of a Lunatic Decade], but all the artwork that\u2019s in there, even up through S. Clay [Wilson], that stuff, when you see it all together you go, \u201cJesus, what is this stuff?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argonaut360.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argonaut360.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argonaut360.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argonaut360.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argonaut360.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.argonaut360.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argonaut360.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argonaut360.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argonaut360.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}