Oh Hunter S. Thompson, how I wish you were still alive and could be my friend. Do you think this cover letter would fly today? I kind of want to work in a setting where this no-bullshit culture is present. What would that be, do you think?
Caroline
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
HST's cover letter for a newspaper job
In October 1958, a pre-fame Hunter S. Thompson applied for a job at the Vancouver Sun. The Ottawa Citizen recently published the quintessentially-Hunter cover letter, which also appeared in The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967 (The Fear and Loathing Letters, Vol. 1).
Oh Hunter S. Thompson, how I wish you were still alive and could be my friend. Do you think this cover letter would fly today? I kind of want to work in a setting where this no-bullshit culture is present. What would that be, do you think?
Caroline
Oh Hunter S. Thompson, how I wish you were still alive and could be my friend. Do you think this cover letter would fly today? I kind of want to work in a setting where this no-bullshit culture is present. What would that be, do you think?
Caroline
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