Beyond Hall 8: Hunter S. Thompson Was Good with a Gun

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Hunter S. Thompson Was Good with a Gun

US talk show host Conan O'Brien spent some quality time with Hunter S. Thompson as the late author was promoting his book Kingdom of Fear back in February 2003. If you've never seen Hunter in action, making "art" by blowing away his own books with a machine gun, take a look and (please) be amused.

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Rebecca Morrison is editor of New Books in German, a London-based bi-annual magazine promoting some of the best of German literature and news from the publishing scene.

Siobhan O'Leary is the former Associate Director of the publishing consulting firm Market Partners International and, more recently, worked in the foreign rights department of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House. She has relocated to Berlin, where she is working as a literary agent, translator, and freelance writer. She has contributed to Publishing Trends, Publishers Weekly, BookPage, and the Staten Island Advance, and was a participant in the 2008 Frankfurt Book Fair fellowship program.

Ed Nawotka is a widely published book critic and authority on the publishing industry. A long time editor and writer for Publishers Weekly, he is a columnist at Bloomberg News and contributes to numerous national magazines and newspapers. You can find an archive of his work at http://www.edwardn.com/.

Roger Tagholm is the former Deputy Editor of UK trade weekly Publishing News. He has been writing about the industry for 20 years and is the author of two books, Walking Literary London (New Holland) and Poems NOT on the Underground (Windrush Press). He is now a freelance writer, journalist and photographer, contributing to a wide variety of publications and websites, including the UK Bookseller magazine.

Andrew Wilkins is director of Australian independent publishing house Wilkins Farago. Until May 2008 he was publisher of Australia's book industry magazine, Bookseller+Publisher, and has been a regular visitor to the Frankfurt Book Fair, and other book fairs, over the past decade. During his 20 years in the book trade, he has been a bookseller, publisher, editor, sales and marketing manager, typesetter, rights manager, author and publicist. In February 2008, he chaired the inaugural Professional Publishing in Asia conference in New Delhi, India. He travels regularly throughout the Asia-Pacific region.

Hannah Johnson is project manager of the German Book Office New York.

Thomas Minkus is the Vice President of Marketing & Sales at the Frankfurt Book Fair

Riky Stock is the director of the German Book Office New York.

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Hunter S. Thompson Was Good with a Gun

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