Articles by Hunter S. Thompson's

Natural born swiller

Hunter S. Thompson’s Wild Turkey intake is legendary: and ‘wild’ is definitely the word

In 1970, the now defunct Scanlon’s Monthly sent a young journalist named Hunter S. Thompson to his hometown of Louisville to do a piece on America’s premier horse race, the Kentucky Derby. Thompson wasn’t the icon he is today. Although he had published his first book on the Hell’s Angels in 1966, he...

Whisky Literature from Issue 31 published on 9/6/2003