Warren Hinckle Would Have Written a Better Headline for This

Warren Hinckle wrote like an angry angel when he felt like it, which was often, but that was not what made him the hero of freewheeling journalists. Writers and editors emulated his spirit, studying his many gifts and tricks, from hyperbolic irony to self-plagiarism — both of which I am employing here. Warren was a wonder of eccentricity, and his recent posthumous books, “Who Killed Hunter S. Thompson?” and the anthology of his writing, “Ransoming Pagan Babies,” show off the reach of his genius.