By Ron Whitehead GonzoFest Louisville co-founder and Chief Poetics The first time Jack Nicholson called he was furious, pissed off, screaming. It was August 1995 and my grandmother, Louverine Render, had died. Right after the funeral my family and I headed out, in a rented car, for a 5,000-mile-out-West road […]
by Cody S. Decker I just got home from The Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame induction, where the Grand Poobah of Gonzo became one of the newest members. A lot is going through my head right now. Which means it’s time for me to kick start this old Smith Corona […]
by Johann Galloway What’s your typical day like out here?” I asked. “Well… you do a lot of walking and a lot of reading.” I wondered how folks like him ended up in such dire circumstances. Are they all drug addicts, alcoholics, degenerate gamblers or violent anti-socials who deserve their […]
by Rob Azevedo Dear Willy, Jenny told me you called the other night. You sounded beaten, like someone had taken a rivet gun to your insides. And before she had the chance to tell me you got laid off from your rugging job, I knew life had you licking the curb. There was […]
By: Darrin Kerr We are the Great Nation Born of independence Become the oppressor The land of opportunity The opportunity to shiver in the streets while hungry The opportunity to walk in space, but not in our inner cities The opportunity to work hard and remain poor We are laws without […]
by Ron Whitehead visited Springfield flew to Louisville drove Bardstown Road to St. Catharine College then on to The Starving Artist Cafe Welcome to Springfield, Kentucky wandered Main street side streets lost for hours small suitcase weighed down with heavy words The Emancipation Proclamation The Gettysburg Address Abraham Lincoln’s words […]
by Anthony Nowicke – originally appeared on Louisville.com May 8, 2014 Hunter S. Thompson was a talent all his own, a breed of genius rarely seen. Tom Wolfe, the godfather of New Journalism, compared Thompson to none other than Mark Twain, calling Thompson “the century’s greatest comic writer.” Thompson grew […]
by Mark Linnhoefer A foul stench in professional journalism… …is slowly creeping up the nose of anyone in the field that has followed the events of the past few days. The horrors of Paris are still haunting the media landscape, the wounds are still fresh, and the question the seems […]
By: Donnie Casto II “The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.” – H.L. Mencken The blood of innocent lives has been shed in France. Paris, it seems, has suffered their equal to our very own ‘Boston Massacre’, an event in which the […]
By: Jeroen Melis 08.01.2015 The day after, people are claiming to be Charlie right now. They have never written, drawn or said any word of sense before. Social media users proclaim ‘Je suis Charlie’ (‘I am Charlie‘) after terror attack kills 12 at Charlie Hebdo magazine office in Paris. Inside […]
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