Hunter S Thompson's experience could as well be ours as we skid "broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming 'Wow! What a Ride!'" Thompson was mad of course: a fan of alcohol, drugs, violence and firearms. His first big book on the Hells Angels was based on a year spent living among them, forced to leave the field after pushing his luck too far and getting stomped by a handful of them.
He was a good writer.
Few among us are as crazy, and nor need we be to write bravely. The Bohemian Writers Club (http://www.bohemianwritersclub.org) is an experiment in writing courageously, creatively, uncomfortably. Here you will find new and old stories by colleagues: Henry Mintzberg, Randall Collins, Loic Wacquant, Brian Pentland, Yiannis Gabriel, Madeline Toubiana, Erik Dane and Innan Sasaki, among others. It has stories from the war in Ukraine as well as poignant accounts by two former soldiers: Special Forces officer Richard O'Quinn and submariner Chase La Rosa.
Perhaps you have a story you'd like to contribute?
We're toying with the idea of organising writing workshops based on the "workshopping" model common to creative writing MFA/MA programmes. That is, if there's sufficient interest. But more on that later.
cheers
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Mark de Rond
Professor
Judge Business School, Cambridge U
Cambridge
+44 12 23 764135
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