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"This amusing collection pulls from 30 years of conversations and reveals the gonzo journalist to be much more of a craftsman than he is often given credit for being. It would, in fact, make a great gift to any budding journalist."
"Crawdaddy!"
"What better way to explore any mind (and perhaps especially a mind, like Thompson's, as warped as it was brilliant) than to go straight to the source?...The interviews in this book capture the outlaw journalist at every glorious twist in the road...This book contains Thompson at his peak, with all the cryptic wit and irony that made him one of America's true literary greats. A must-read for any Thompson aficionado."A.V. Club, 7/16/09
"The best items in "Gonzo Wisdom" are among the straightest: a gratifyingly sober 1979 confab with "Washington Journalism Review", and the classic "Playboy" interview finished right after Nixon's resignation. Wild and funny though he was, Thompson was always serious about his writing.""New York Times" Paper Cuts book blog, 7/20/09
"The book is fun to rummage around in.""Creative Loafing" Daily Loaf blog, 7/14/09
"A substantial new volume...A solid and indispensible record of Hunter S. Thompson's public life as a writer.""Tucson Citizen", Shelf Life blog, 8/5/09
"Arranged in chronological order, the interviews provide remarkable insight into the thinking of this extraordinary man.""Library Journal", 9/1/09
"All of [the interviews] emphasize Thompson's flamboyant and exaggerated style. His fervent base of fans will want this book."PopMatters.com, 8/27/09
"Recently, "Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson", another book collecting Thompson's essential interviews was published, and with "Ancient Gonzo Wisdom" coming so close after that, you might think that there's a glut of the good doctor out there. Fortunately, there are only a couple of overlapping interviews between the two, and because Anita Thompson has done such an
