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The Rum Diary Back-Story Episode 10
In the final episode of The Rum Diary Back-Story Hunter makes a rare appearance reading the book’s Prologue – “San Juan, Winter of 1958.”...

Wayne Ewing
Oct 24, 20111 min read
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The Rum Diary Back-Story Episode 9
Hunter worked the telephone incessantly during the last ten years of his life, and his telcons with Johnny Depp keep The Rum Diary alive...

Wayne Ewing
Oct 23, 20111 min read
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The Rum Diary Back-Story Episode 8 “The Fax”
Hunter Thompson’s FAX to Holly Sorensen of January, 2001 is still infamous in Hollywood. Every writer and author’s frustration with the...

Wayne Ewing
Oct 21, 20112 min read
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The Rum Diary Back-Story Episode 7
Last Friday I found Holly Sorensen working in a bungalow at CBS Studio Center just over the hill from Hollywood. Although still...

Wayne Ewing
Oct 19, 20112 min read
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The Rum Diary Back-Story Episode Three
“I want FOOD! Rum is not enough alone. I shall entitle my story ‘Rum is Not Enough.’ Or ‘ Not by Rum Alone.’ My stamps, envelopes,...

Wayne Ewing
Oct 9, 20112 min read
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The Rum Diary Back-Story: Episode Two
This Episode opens with Hunter and historian Doug Brinkley exploring the “War Room” in the basement of Owl Farm where Doug found the...

Wayne Ewing
Oct 4, 20112 min read
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