Hunter S. Thompson shot and killed himself at his home in Woody Creek on Sunday. He always did love guns, so in some ways I suppose his route out is not a big surprise. Whatever the cause, the world is short one brilliant writer this morning and that is a shame. He was 67.
Here’s a nice write up from the San Francisco Chronicle, a newspaper Thompson regularly contributed to.
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I write poetry, short fiction, journalism, literary and cultural criticism, ad copy and hypertext. I'm also the muckraker behind AdPulp, an advertising industry blog, and I keep tabs on the music scene at Leftover Cheese. A native Nebraskan, I now live in Bluffton, SC, between Hilton Head Island and Savannah.
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