Joe Hagan, in Sticky Fingers, his excellent biography of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone magazine, calls the collaboration between Wenner and his star writer Hunter S Thompson ‘cosmically preordained.’ Wenner explains, ‘We sparked as we saw each other as kindred spirits.’ And yet, sometimes the adoration between writers and editors can be one-sided, as Cheever realises, much to his dismay.
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