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January 31, 2024
Men of Letters: Charlie Rose, Hunter Thompson.
Never write a letter, never throw one away.
--Attributed to the late private investigator and consultant Thomas Corbally, two medieval priests, and three U.S. mayors.
For reasons which go back to 1974, I miss Hunter Thompson. This son of Louisville put some of his best and funniest stuff in personal letters--and he wrote volumes and volumes of them. Over 20,000. I've read some off and on for years; my favorites (and the funniest) are his with boss Jann Wenner, Rolling Stone magazine's founder and editor, in the 1970s and 1980s. Others are published in Thompson's books over the years. See this clip from a Charlie Rose interview, undated, but his Rose's with Thompson, likely about 1997. HST talks about letter-writing here.
Posted by JD Hull at January 31, 2024 11:59 PM
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