Twenty years ago this summer, the ashes of Louisville’s most revered writer were fired out of a cannon at his Woody Creek, Colorado, home. Hunter S. Thompson had shot himself the preceding ...

Hunter S. Thompson would have turned 88 years old today. Let that sink in. Eighty-eight. It’s hard to picture the “Good ...

Hunter S. Thompson grew up on Ransdell Avenue in the Highlands neighborhood. An incident in Cherokee Park sent him in a different direction, one that would influence his life.

A tightly wound bundle of everything and its opposite—an anti-authoritarian who ran for sheriff of Aspen, a peace-loving gun nut, an iconoclast who relished winners as much as any football coach—the ...

Here & Now's Scott Tong speaks with Joe Iconis, playwright and composer, and Eric William Morris, star, of “The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S Thompson Musical.” This segment aired on June 19 ...

Still inhabited by Thompson’s widow, Anita, the home was in many ways exactly as the idiosyncratic author left it when he took his own life there in February 2005 at age 67. Stacks of books ...

But composer Joe Iconis and book writer Gregory S. Moss attempt a cradle-to-grave account of Thompson’s life and career in 2 hours and 40 ... The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical ...

Iconis’s propulsive score is peppered with protest anthems, beat-poet swagger and a recurring rock ’n’ roll hymn to outsiders and misfits. “All hail Hunter S. Thompson,” the ensemble chants.

Hunter S. Thompson, center, is seen during an appearance in Memorial Coliseum at the University of Kentucky in 1980. By Stewart Bowman, The Courier-Journal.

What can one say about Hunter S. Thompson, the infamous “Gonzo” journalist who wrote about the Hell’s Angels, The Kentucky Derby, who wrote prolifically in Rolling Stone Magazine and who ...