Hunter Thompson and Jim Silberman

I start the Thompson book with his 17-page letter to Jim Silberman at Random House in January 1970. Thompson confessed he had no idea how to finish his second book, which was already two years overdue. When that book finally appeared in 1972, they called it Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. This week I learned that Silberman also edited Stewart Brand's The Last Whole Earth Catalog (1971), which won a National Book Award. Add this face to the gallery of Thompson's stellar editors.