11 Jan 2016
Hunter Thompson to Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess, Hunter S. Thompson, Invective, Rolling Stone
Anthony Burgess, author of Clockwork Orange, resident in 1973 in Rome, was overdue in supplying “a thinkpiece” commissioned by Rolling Stone, and wrote his editor (Hunter S. Thompson) offering to submit a 50,000-word novella he’d just finished on the condition humaine instead. Thompson replied thusly:
