June 1998

NEW JOURNALISM IN-DEPTH
The Seven-Ton Typewriter: Chronicles of Rage
For five decades, Hunter S. Thompson has thrown himself into the darkest nooks and crannies of the American experience and emerged with tales to tell.
By Peter O. Whitmer
Plus: Interviews with artist Ralph Steadman and Tony Grisoni, co-screenwriter of the film Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

New Journalism: Fact or Fiction?
Three writers who changed journalism
By Amy Nickell & Tanya Stanciu

Trumpeting Truman
A conversation with George Plimpton about Truman Capote
By Amy Nickell & Tanya Stanciu

NEW ARTIST
The Unexpected Salami
Novelist Laurie Gwen Shapiro
By Amy Nickell

BOOK
To Make a Long Summer Short
The 15 best short stories of all time
By Bobby Maddex

LET IT BLEED
Hallucinated Alphabets
By David Dalton

ISSUES
Tricky Dick and the Pink Lady
By Richard Abowitz

ART
The Multi-Dimensional World of George Segal
By Jayson Whitehead

IDEAS
The Road Not Taken
A look back at M. Scott Peck's enduring best seller
By Bobby Maddex

MUSIC
Grunge Revisited
Birth, death and rebirth in the Great Northwest
By Bret Booth

FILM
To Be Like Tony
How my life would've been different had Paramount re-released Saturday Night Fever.
By Bobby Maddex

REVIEWS
Jason Priestley, Scott Weiland, The Bad Daughter, American posters and more.