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.
This year’s edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival was attended by a range of celebrated authors from Paul Lynch and Georgi Gospodinov to Perumal Murugan, Shyam Selvadurai and Kai Bird. This ability to gather some of the finest minds from around the world under one roof remains the festival’s unique selling proposition
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