Back of my mind there was a writer at Rolling Stone. Foreign Affairs Desk before PJ O’Rourke. Maybe several peeps before PJ.
Same gonzo journalism. The writer was I think Oz. Used to have a paperback of the columns, decades back. One piece particularly recall was about Papua New Guinea. Started with a Kennedy(?) or a Rockefeller (more likely) being eaten by headhunters or something.
I occasionally try to find that collection of pieces but am rather limited by not being able to recall the blokes name.
Anyone got any idea?
Update – I wrote to Rolling Stone asking them. The editor’s inbox is full….
Super, well done to Robert.
Okker Chic, Michael Thomas, that’s the one.
probably not him (because he was a brit) but i came across a paperback of Bruce Chatwin’s travel writing once.and recall it originated from his journalism. It was bloody good.
Definitely not Chatwin, you’re right. Very gonzo in style was this bloke.
Michael Rockefeller was eaten by the cannibals. And the story appeared in a book Savage Harvest written by Carl Hoffman.
Google Keywords for search: – Papua New Guinea – Cannibals – Rockefeller. Time for search: a second or so.
So Tim: LTGDH..
Same background story, yes. But there’s no way that a bloke born in 1960, publishing in 2014, was something I read circa 1982.
Hoffman was born in 1960. Unlikely to have worked for Rolling Stone before he was say, 15.
His book’s bibliography might yield a clue as might Paul Toohey’s “Rocky goes West” on the same subject. Toohey is Oz but born ’63.
Was it this book:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24020275-okker-chic
If you go to Wikipedia.and.look up gonzo journalism, there are a few names, and a load of links that might help.