Home » Uncategorized » Hunter Thompson’s Dismissive Missive

Hunter Thompson’s Dismissive Missive

22 June 2012

May or may not be safe for work.  Language advisory.

Hunter Thompson’s “rejection letter” to his biographer, William McKeen.

Writers are a placid lot, are we not?

Link to image Flavorwire

guest post by Barbara Morgenroth

Uncategorized

13 Comments to “Hunter Thompson’s Dismissive Missive”

  1. EmmeganJune 22, 2012 at 11:14 am

    These days, when you read about an author (like M.R. Mathias, for example) having a meltdown on the Internet, the meltdown doesn’t often include threats to gouge somebody’s eye out.

  2. Marie LoughinJune 22, 2012 at 11:36 am

    I bet that was fun to write. Though i wouldn’t advise it these days, unless you feed it to a shredder before the ink is dry.

  3. Lexi RevellianJune 22, 2012 at 11:59 am

    That’s not very nice…

  4. MiraJune 22, 2012 at 12:01 pm

    Lol.

    And they say e-mail is forever. :)

  5. AliceJune 22, 2012 at 12:12 pm

    Never quite got the fascination with him. He was a nasty, destructive person who wrote about nasty, destructive people.

  6. Dan DeWittJune 22, 2012 at 1:02 pm

    Wait, was that written by Hunter S. Thompson or Mother Theresa?

  7. Lisa AdlerJune 22, 2012 at 2:12 pm

    OH! Court case coming. This smells of money.

  8. Richard HerleyJune 22, 2012 at 2:41 pm

    Needs an edit. “You” #3 should be “you’d”, “yours” refers to “eyepatch”, and he should lose the hyphen after “dimly”, but otherwise it seems OK to me, unless he’s referring to himself as “bushy-haired”, which must have been a bit of wishful thinking :-)

  9. Patrice FitzgeraldJune 22, 2012 at 4:37 pm

    That’s a great site and has lots of other fun rejection letters.

  10. LJJune 22, 2012 at 5:11 pm

    Hunter’s a real sweetheart compared to Bernard Black:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jj9Ke_SL8I

Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.