here’s one of my favourite quotes about brautigan. this is from bruce cook of the national observer and located on the back cover of the hawkline monster: a gothic western.
no writer you can think of is quite like him today, nor was any writer anytime – unless you can imagine the kind of things mark twain might have written had he wandered into a field of ripe cannabis with a pack of zig zag papers in his pocket. that’s about as close as i can come to brautigan, a kind of cracker-barrel surrealist whose humor is essentially nineteenth-century western american.