Welcome! This is something of a homepage for everything related to one of my primary scholarly projects: a comprehensive annotated variorum of Hunter S. Thompson’s 1971 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream. If you’re one of the many people whose generosity, support, wisdom, insight, and occasional life-preserver-tossing has helped me get to this point. Thank you.
Below you can find the link to the catalog of my private archive of supporting materials, original documents, and Thompson ephemera; a copy of the annotated variorum of Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; and a small gallery of items and photos gathered over the course of my study.
ARCHIVE COLLECTION
Here you can view the catalog of my personal collection of primary & secondary texts, original documents, books, magazines, newspapers, artwork, audio recordings, transcripts, films, and various ephemera that support my Thompson scholarship and the annotated variorum of Vegas in particular. The catalog is updated when new entries are added. Questions? Don’t hesitate to drop me a line below.
ARCHIVE LINK: [in progress!]
ANNOTATED VARIORUM OF FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS
The centerpiece of my scholarly project, the variorum traces differences across three versions of the text: the July 1972 Random House book, the November 1971 installments in Rolling Stone, and a fair-copy typescript of the first 6,000 words dated 20 April 1971 – the earliest version of any portion of Vegas currently known to scholarship. The variorum is accompanied by approximately five hundred annotations that draw on academic, private, and nontraditional archives to cross-reference virtually all of the events, quotes, and allusions that pepper the text.
Please note that, for security reasons (mainly Google bots hoovering up everything online, access to the variorum requires a password. If you don’t have it, please drop me a line.
GALLERY
Here you can find photos of selected materials from the personal archive I’ve compiled over the course of my doctoral study. Some of the items most important to my work (and, therefore, the most interesting) are still covered by copyright and thus do not appear here. Many more, however, are not: documents, photographs, and a few curiosities & ephemera relating to Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and my own scholarly work. Watch this space for a full listing of items in my archive, as well as a gallery of photos from San Francisco, Las Vegas, and the Mint 400 taken in 2021, fifty years after the original publication of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Questions? Comments? Drop me a line!
You can reach me via the form below, or you can send a message directly to John.Brick@Marquette.edu. I’ll be delighted to hear from you
Dr. John F. Brick 