Defining Gonzo Rhetoric through Literary History
Introduction Gonzo rhetoric, or roughly defined through literary history as the blending of nonfiction with fiction, is the bastard child
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Go Gonzo Journal
Fake news with a spin of Truth
Education
Gonzo Lectures
Hell’s Angels an Objective Condemnation of the Press
Hunter S. Thompson’s Hell’s Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga (1966) is, by far, the most objective journalism Thompson was ever responsible
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In Cold Blood a Not-So-Cold-Blooded Account of Murderers
The nonfiction novel came into its own in 1965, when both Truman Capote and Hunter S. Thompson undertook the task
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Naked Lunch the Most Difficult Thing I’ve Ever Read
I read the abridged version of Moby Dick in fifth grade. I read the unabridged version in sixth grade. I read
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Big Sur Proustian Words on Poe-ish Amounts of Liquor
I can see why Hunter S. Thompson referred to Kerouac’s Big Sur as a “shitty, shitty book,” but I think the second
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Truthful Reporting through Subjective Journalism
Journalism is a profession that is in constant change. So much that scholars, and even journalists themselves, often disagree on
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Comedic Errors of The Tempest
If embracing our own errors is so difficult, you can only imagine how difficult it is for us to embrace
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Comedic Errors of A Midsummer Night’s Dream
I have mentioned the “mechanicals” of A Midsummer Night’s Dream throughout these blogs, and there’s good reason. Their performance of
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Tragic Errors of King Lear
Unlike Hamlet, King Lear is the perfect example of a decisive leader but much more tragic. Hamlet loses everyone around
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Tragic Errors of Hamlet
James Joyce’s Ulysses describes mistakes as “portals to discovery,” but very few of us, especially Americans, would describe mistakes in
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To Err is Shakespeare
William Shakespeare wanted us to make mistakes. He knew, both first-hand and through his writing, that error was the foundation
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