Hunter Thompson Chat With Magnus Toren

Magnus Toren, who runs the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur, chatted with me about Hunter Thompson on his podcast. It was a great pleasure to visit with Magnus again--almost as good as our trip to Big Sur, which occurred right before the pandemic started in earnest.

Among other things, we talked about Thompson's time in Big Sur, which was brief but eventful. It was also very formative. At the time, Thompson thought of himself as a novelist-in-progress, and I argue that Henry Miller's model of authorship was very attractive to him.

The goal now is to schedule an event at the library. We'll see if we can pull that off in these fraught times.>