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In March 2023, Hunter aficionado Morgan Navarro, who had been influenced in many ways by the great man’s writing and thinking, went to America with his assistant, reporter and off-the-wall radio producer Jack Souvant—”a crazy guy who’s capable of anything”—following Hunter’s trail from Kentucky to the fashionable resort of Aspen with the aim of meeting people who had been close to him (including his widow Anita, Bill Murray, Ralph Steadman, Gilliam, and Depp) and painting a picture of modern America, with all its hang-ups, angst, madness and laughter.
As Thompson’s close friend Ron Whitehead would tell Navarro: “Your book is not a journey to the heart of a nightmare, like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; it’s a journey from the heart to the heart.”
