Chris Sollars is the artist behind the sculpture/multi-media installation. He has a page with lots of pix & info on his site.

The artist represents 7 of Richard’s books:

Revenge of the Lawn (I love the green plastic lawn chair!)
Rommel Drives on Deep into Egypt
A Confederate General from Big Sur
In Watermelon Sugar
The Pill vs The Springhill Mine Disaster
The Abortion
Trout Fishing in America

I love the simplicity of each book’s installation.

Waterfall (for Richard Brautigan) - courtesy of the artist

The artist, evan la londe, credits living in upstate New York, growing up in the woods and Brautigan’s ‘Knock on Wood (Part Two)’ from Trout Fishing in America as the inspiration for this piece.  Of that story, Evan says:

The story is filled with a magic that I love; it’s phenomenological and metaphorical all at once.

There was a temporary installation of this piece last October in Prettyboy Reservoir, outside of Parkton MD.   Now it has moved to Baltimore to an art gallery called School33.  Details of the venue: school33

Evan is currently working on a video of the installation.   He’s got some cool pix showing the build on Flickr.

In Progress - courtesy of the artist

Following Richard Brautigan is a coming of age story and a road trip and a tale of love and so much more.  You can pre-order it at Amazon (link below. )

There’s also a visual trip (video) of Corey reading the first chapter(s).   I think he sounds a bit like Richard.

from wbur.org NPR – aired Feb 6 – listen here

Married in 1957, separated in ‘62 and divorced in ‘70, she looks back at their time together.

Now working as a substitute teacher in Hawaii, this interview gives a little insight into Richard & his writing, what it was like in the 1960s in San Francisco as well as her relationship with Richard.

The San Diego Union Tribune has a nice review: It might be time to go ‘Trout Fishing’ again by Robert Pincus.

You can buy the book on amazon by clicking the cover below:

To catch up… here’s an article published in a local paper before the event.

One of the folks on our mailing list has been kind enough to supply images & the commentary below about the event:

Do you remember the cold Friday evening of December 4th, 2009? Well, I sure do, that was the historical night when about 50 people gathered in Vancouver WA to celebrate a great (and even local!!!) wordsmith – Richard Brautigan.

Dr. John Barber and some of his students put on the event, complete with archival video footage of Richard many had never seen before playing on a giant screen, plenty of history on his books and life, and also a portion where humans read Brautigan’s wonderful words from the past from old fashioned books (remember those things?), scraps of paper and yes: handheld electronic devices. Hey, this is the future after all – all watched over by machines of loving grace indeed!
 
Many great poems, stories and lines were shared by the class members, some of us simply audience members/fans of Brautigan, and even Dr. John Barber himself read some verses: an actual friend and acquaintance of Richard’s: what a great host for an evening of Brautigan celebration.

People took turns at the mic reading their favorites, I even read two of his poems, a man in the crowd got up to read, in its entirety, the Kool-Aid Wino chapter to us from Trout Fishing in America… ahhh… 
 
While the event was in progress, they were feeding footage up onto a tower outside on the campus, so that all of the snowmen and snowwomen of Vancouver WA could see the the great poetry tower mentioned in Richard’s 1967 poem Rainy Day Gary Snyder Poetry Night. Yes, dear reader, it was all pretty magical.
 
The archival video portion featured lovely music made by one of the students, artsy visuals with Brautigan’s words incorporated and many other great images. Very well done!
 
Hopefully there will be more footage from the event online someday for all to enjoy, I have gleaned that it will someday be posted, but patience in needed.

I took a few quick photos and rough videos - though they are far from professional, they might just give you a quick simple idea of the spark in the auditorium that night.
 
I had a blast. My son, who was only a few weeks old at the time, slept in the comfort of his mother’s arms while great words and memories hummed all around him.
 
7odd, who’s on the mailing list & was lucky enough to attend XXI Century Brautiganism

7odd’s pix & video

Click here to view the embedded video.

Here’s another video of the event (found on youtube!):

Thanks 7odd for your contributions!!!!

Update: Here’s a link to another story about the event from the local newspaper

during the show jarvis says richard brautigan is one of his favourite writers.

and then reads ‘what are you going to do with 390 photographs of christmas trees?’ (it’s about 42 minutes into the show. fyi, it sounds like they keep the archive for 7 days only)

he asked people to send in their pix of abandoned trees but i think something is wrong with the gallery on the BBC site. there’s only 5 pix online & the page is loading weird for me. (at about 55 minutes into the show is when he talks about the pix). You can send him your pix at jarvis.6music@bbc.co.uk

you can read ”what are you going to do with 390 photographs of christmas trees?” here