My name is Martin Flynn. Alongside four decades spent exploring Thompson’s work, I have spent years formally studying psychotherapy, counselling, spirituality and philosophy. My academic background includes a BA in Psychotherapy and Counselling Studies, a Higher Diploma in Psychotherapy Studies and an MA in Applied Spirituality.

So I now find myself bringing two long-standing interests together: Hunter S. Thompson and the human condition.

I still care about the books, the history, the journalism and getting the details right.

But HSTBooks is becoming more than an archive.

It is also a place to explore what Thompson’s writing might tell us about fear, identity, conformity, power, courage, meaning and survival , without pretending that every part of the Gonzo legend deserves imitation.

You do not even have to read Hunter Thompson to get something from this!

That can be my problem.

If something here eventually makes you want to pick up one of his books, brilliant.

But the larger ambition is simpler.

After forty years of reading the work, the letters, the madness and the contradictions, I want to ask what all of it might actually be useful for.

Because buried beneath the drugs, guns, politics, legend and magnificent prose is a persistent question:

How do you stay yourself when life is kicking the shit out of you?

That seems worth exploring.

Welcome to HSTBooks.

Consider it the Thompsonian approach to the human condition.

— Martin Flynn