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2 unusual facts about Scanlan's Monthly


Scanlan's Monthly

Scanlan's is best-remembered for featuring several articles by Hunter S. Thompson, and especially for what is considered the first instance of gonzo journalism, Thompson's "The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved".

The issue was finally printed in Quebec and in a German translation in Stuttgart (Guerilla-Krieg in USA, Deutsche Verlagsanstalt 1971).


Akercocke

The band was soon completed by the addition of second guitarist Paul Scanlan (ex-Creaming Jesus) and bassist Peter Theobalds.

Alfred Gilpin Jones

She wrote for the Toronto Week, and contributed a serial, "A Hazard of Hearts," to Frank Leslie's Monthly.

Elizabeth Drew Stoddard

Many of her own works were originally published between 1859 and 1890 in such magazines as The Aldine, Harper's Monthly, Harper's Bazaar, and The Atlantic Monthly.

Henry Sandham

In 1877, he began doing illustrations for Scribner’s Monthly, with his first piece accompanying an article by William George Beers.

Jodie McMullen

She starred in "Requiem" with Jason Connery; and more recently has worked as a freelance writer, writing for the Listings Magazine, View London, International Woman's Monthly and several other online and print magazines.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

When they returned to the United States in 1869, the two men collaborated with Charles Scribner to publish Scribner's Monthly.

Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

In Scribner's Monthly of August 1871, she published an account of the new French political leadership that came to power following the war.

Scribner's Monthly

Charles Scribner I, Andrew Armstrong, Arthur Peabody, Edward Seymour, Josiah Gilbert Holland, and Roswell Smith established "Scribner & Co." on July 19, 1870 to start on the publication of Scribner's Monthly.

Teresa Scanlan

Scanlan was home-schooled until her junior year of high school, before attending Gering High School part-time for half of her junior year.

The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved

In 1970, Bill Cardoso (editor of The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine), wrote Thompson praising the "Kentucky Derby" piece in Scanlan's Monthly as a breakthrough: "This is it, this is pure Gonzo. If this is a start, keep rolling."


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