Chat with Michael Ratner, Director of ‘Gonzo @ the Derby’
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In 1970, Hunter S. Thompson, a native of Louisville, went to the Kentucky Derby to cover the race for Scanlan’s Monthly, an edgy, short-lived publication. In the process of this writing assignment, Thompson created a revolutionary style of writing: gonzo journalism. What Thompson birthed was creative and daring, a strange combination of autobiography, criticism, humor, stream-of-consciousness and investigative writing.