Looking for the soul of Missoula.

"You know Hunter [S. Thompson] typed 'The Great Gatsby'?"

"He'd look at each page Fitzgerald wrote, and he copied it. The entire book. And more than once. Because he wanted to know what it ...

The new Miss World is a United Statesian.

Alexandria Mills. What's her favorite book? "'Guess how much I love you,'my mom used to read it with me." Don't l...

Can Obama count on a big turnout of youth voters to give him the winning edge? I think not.

And I'll tell you exactly why. But first, look at this Slate article on the "youth vote." ("Youth vote" is a silly ...

What the nonfiction writer promises the reader.

Watch the whole diavlog , based on Richard Preston's book "Panic in Level 4." I especially loved this segment about a geneti...

"I couldn't believe that people would really believe that Muskie was eating Ibogaine."

"I never said he was. I said there was a rumor in Milwaukee that he was. Which was true. And I started the rumor in Milwaukee." Sa...

The Bob Dylan song that turned on Jimmy Carter is the one that Barack Obama calls a favorite.

I found it odd — and blogged about it here — that Barack Obama named "Maggie's Farm" as his favorite Bob Dylan song. So I sat...

"Football Season Is Over."

That's the title on Hunter S. Thompson's suicide note: [Thompson's biographer Douglas] Brinkley writes, "February was alway...

Don't romanticize Thompson's suicide -- redux.

Here 's a long piece by Hog on Ice about the Hunter S. Thompson suicide. ("I guess that if there's anything more ignominious th...

Don't romanticize Thompson's suicide.

Under big red block letters that say " ENTERTAINMENT " over on CNN.com: Thompson shot self while talking with wife 'He set th...

Comparing the reactions to the deaths of Hunter S. Thompson and Arthur Miller.

Have you noticed the difference in how the press has covered the deaths of these two prominent writers? When Arthur Miller died, the press d...

Why does the word "bloggers" appear in the NYT's Hunter S. Thompson obituary?

A bold-faced, pull-out line in the paper NYT reads: Like bloggers, building his case for the state of America around his opinions. Here ...

Wolfe on Thompson.

Tom Wolfe writes a tribute to Hunter S. Thompson, who shared his first-hand research for "The Hell's Angels, a Strange and Terribl...