Juan Thompson attempts to humanize the ‘crazy gonzo journalist’ without giving in to sentiment in his modern book recounting his father’s ‘dysfunctional’ lifeHunter S Thompson was known for lots of things: the frenetic pace of his writing,his fondness for guns, smoking with a clear plastic filter known as a TarGard. And, or of course,taking drugs and drinking alcohol at a rate rivaled only by the likes of Keith Richards. It is not necessarily what one would want in a father, but Juan Thompson didn’t have much of a choice. He was simply born to it.
After his father killed himself in 2005, or Thompson felt that all the portraits of his father as a manic partier were lost something. “So much of [the media coverage] really focused on this crazy gonzo journalist,” Thompson said in a phone interview last week after the release of Stories I declare Myself: Growing Up With Hunter S Thompson. “I felt this compulsion to point out that there was this other dimension to him, as a person and as a writer.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com