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Otherppl with Brad Listi

811. David S. Wills

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8554 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2023

⏱️ 136 minutes

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Summary

David S. Wills is the author of High White Notes: The Rise and Fall of Gonzo Journalism, available from Beatdom Books. Wills is the founder and editor of Beatdom literary journal. His other books include Scientologist! William S. Burroughs and the Weird Cult, and World Citizen: Allen Ginsberg as Traveller. He lives in Kampot, Cambodia.  *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Launched in 2011. Books. Literature. Writing. Publishing. Authors. Screenwriters. Etc. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch @otherppl Instagram  YouTube TikTok Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.6

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0:32.6

Hello, everyone. How are you? Welcome to the show. This is the Other People podcast. I'm Brad Listy, and I'm in Los Angeles. It's good to be with you. Thank you for listening wherever you happen to be.

0:50.3

Today on the program, my guest is David S. Wills, author of a new biography of Hunter S. Thompson,

0:59.1

entitled High White Notes, The Rise and Fall of Gonzo Journalism.

1:06.5

And that was the final piece in the Gonzo puzzle, was immediacy.

1:10.7

Kind of like live tweeting today, I guess, the sort of unedited,

1:15.4

or supposedly unedited reportage,

1:18.1

that seeks to kind of bring the reader right into the event that's being described

1:24.0

in a way that would otherwise not be possible.

1:27.6

And so the article was a huge success.

1:32.5

After he'd written it, Hunter Thompson felt terrible.

1:36.5

This is a massive failure.

1:38.4

I've squandered all my talent.

1:40.1

I've had all these big breaks and I've lost it all.

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