In the final episode of The Rum Diary Back-Story Hunter makes a rare appearance reading the book’s Prologue – “San Juan, Winter of 1958.”...

Hunter worked the telephone incessantly during the last ten years of his life, and his telcons with Johnny Depp keep The Rum Diary alive...

Hunter Thompson’s FAX to Holly Sorensen of January, 2001 is still infamous in Hollywood. Every writer and author’s frustration with the...

Last Friday I found Holly Sorensen working in a bungalow at CBS Studio Center just over the hill from Hollywood. Although still...

The Tiki Hut by the pool in Depp’s backyard seemed the perfect spot to fish for a Hollywood producer with money. Johnny and Hunter had...

In December 1999, Hunter and I went to Hollywood to pitch The Rum Diary with Johnny Depp to producers and studios who might put up the...

The call from Hunter woke me up at 1am. I had been expecting it, but had fallen asleep in my cabin on the Frying Pan River. We had...

“I want FOOD! Rum is not enough alone. I shall entitle my story ‘Rum is Not Enough.’ Or ‘ Not by Rum Alone.’ My stamps, envelopes,...

This Episode opens with Hunter and historian Doug Brinkley exploring the “War Room” in the basement of Owl Farm where Doug found the...

For forty years Hunter S. Thompson struggled to finish his first novel – The Rum Diary – and then he fought until he died to make it a...