Anita Thompson Talks Hunter S. Thompson's Writing Process

Atelier Zweig Fine Books on Instagram: "How Hunter S. Thompson learned to write? by retyping the masters. Entire books, word for word. He is said to have typed out F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ several times. The Hemingway of his choosing was ‘A Farewell to Arms’, along with short stories by Faulkner. Biographer Kevin T. McEneaney described it as “an unusual method for learning prose rhythm”. Thompson’s voice would become unmistakably his own, feral, excessive, impossible to mistake f