/lit/ - Literature

>>7467244
https://www.popuparchive.com/collections/938/items/39745

That's the full interview. I always find it interesting listening to the way authors speak in conversation. Reading and listening to Hunter, i've always found him to be extremely humble underneath all of the fame, drugs and portrayal of character.

MH: When you were starting out, when you were eighteen and you started writing these letters in The Proud Highway, did you think your work would ever be considered classic?

HST: I never sat down and thought about it and stared at it. Obviously, if you read The Proud Highway, I was thinking somewhere along those lines. I never lobbied the Modern Library to include more living writers. I've always assumed it was for dead writers. But what I did assume at that time, early on and, shit, every year forever after that, was that I would be dead very soon. The fact that I'm not dead is sort of puzzling to me. It's sort of an awkward thing to deal with.