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Richard Gary Brautigan (January 30, 1935 – c. September 16, 1984) was an American novelist, poet, and short story writer. A prolific writer, he wrote throughout his life and published ten novels, two collections of short stories, and four books of poetry. Brautigan's work has been published both in the United States and internationally ...
Richard Brautigan (1935-84) was one of the most iconic US writers of the 1960s and 70s. A child of the Depression who rose to prominence in the thriving San Francisco literary scene, he was commanding huge advances from the large publishing houses by the late 1960s. But this ascent was matched by an equal and emphatic descent into alcoholism ...
Sep 16, 2021 · Today marks the 37th anniversary of the death of Richard Brautigan, imaginative poet, novelist, and short story writer, best known for his novel Trout Fishing in America. Despite his fame and to his embarrassment, Brautigan was never treated with the same seriousness as some of his peers; he couldn’t shake off his association with hippiedom […]
There’s an occasional music in the lines, a peek into prime Brautigan, but the book falls flat. It deserves to be a literary footnote. The Galilee Hitch-Hiker is the better precedent to understand Brautigan’s breakthrough work. A hand-sewn chapbook of poems published in 1958, the title verse begins in classic Brautigan style: Baudelaire was
Oct 3, 2023 · October 3, 2023. Splabman. What a joy it has been to meet a Richard Brautigan scholar John Tanner in Brussels, hear him present his work on Brautigan at our 2017 Cascadia Poetry Festival and then interview him on his book about a road trip he took on the US west coast in the spirit of the Beats. The book is How To Make an America and John ...
Apr 10, 2019 · If art mimics life, then the Brautigan Library — named after Northwest literary icon Richard Brautigan — feels like a graveyard haunted by the ghosts of books never published, but whose ...
An Unfortunate Woman: A Journey is Richard Brautigan 's eleventh and final published novel. Written in 1982, it was first published (posthumously) in 1994 in a French translation, Cahier d'un Retour de Troie ["Diary of a Return from Troy"]. The first edition in English did not appear until 2000, when it was produced by St. Martin's Press .
