Former Rolling Stone contributing editor Evan Wright says Sean Penn‘s recent interview with Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán is symptomatic of a magazine in “decline,” and that it felt to him like Penn was “doing the ‘Tropic Thunder’ version of a Hunter S. Thompson story.” Wright is best known as the author of “Generation Kill,” which was based on a series of articles Wright penned for the magazine and for which he earned the National Magazine Award. He was active with the publication from 2000 to 2005, and remained on the masthead for years following. TheWrap reached out to him to talk.