Two weeks before his suicide in Bolinas, Calif., in 1984, Richard Brautigan was visiting friends in San Francisco. One of his stops was at City Lights Bookstore, where poet and proprietor Lawrence ...

Richard Brautigan was born in 1935 to a waitress and raised in ... Brautigan spent his nights hunched over his typewriter, sending off poems and stories to be rejected by The Atlantic, The New Yorker, ...

John F. Barber, faculty member in the WSU Vancouver creative media and digital culture program, will speak about the renowned Washington-born author Richard Brautigan at a poetry night hosted by ...

When Richard Brautigan died in 1984, control of his literary estate fell to his daughter, Ianthe Brautigan Swensen. A writer and instructor at Sonoma State University (she’s the baby who appears ...

Many attempts have been made to define Richard Brautigan’s work – Beat, scat, Zen Buddhist, magical-realist, hippie, cult, outsider, naive, pacific, lunatic. Nowhere is his work’s resistance ...

Jubilee Hitchhiker: The Life and Times of Richard Brautigan By William Hjortsberg (Counterpoint, 852 pages, $42.50) The 1960s certainly produced writers, though they were writers of the moment ...

You could say poet and novelist Richard Brautigan was in the right place at the right time when San Francisco became the epicenter of hippiedom in 1967. He became intimately identified with the ...

The writer was welded to his portable Royal typewriter and seldom ... of aspiring writers beguiled by Brautigan’s prose. Clever and brief, Richard Brautigan’s fragmented works are a pastiche ...

Richard Brautigan achieved rock star status before his banishment to the literary wilderness led him to shoot himself in the head. Jarvis Cocker explains his infatuation. Show more When Jarvis ...