for those of you looking for some samples of brautigan’s work, check out google books. there is a very limited selection of readings available.

the combo book of trout fishing in america, the pill vs the springhill mine disaster & in watermelon sugar.

another 3 book combo confederategeneral from big sur, dreaming of babylon & the hawkline monster

fyi, there’s some new works from some of the folks on the mailing list on the by fans page.

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.