In a long letter dated “Nov ? 1961” from Louisville published in “Proud Highway” (though incorrectly identified as sent to Eleanor McGarr), Thompson writes in small part, “Through the empty house floats the voice of Joanie Baez, an eerie sound to my restless ears…I get the Fear w...
He follows it up with a 15 March letter from Rio, in part, "right now i need a break from the spics and I need it bad. Maybe Copenhagen…I am living in a world of cracks, breaks, fizzles, lies, treachery, & overall thirdrateness. My desire to get out is at the point of ...