Anthony Burgess, author of A Clockwork Orange, asks his editor (Hunter S. Thompson) if he could submit a novella instead of a “thinkpiece” to Rolling Stone. Hunter S. Thompson brutally tears him apart.
tag yourself I’m “you lazy cocksucker”
im the lame, half-mad bullshit he’s trying to sneak over on them
i’m the nonexistent International Gibberish Desk
I’m ‘50,000 word novella about the condition humaine, etc”