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...look at the past, and just like a contemporary musician would pull musicians from the past, I look to see what could be expanded and developed. So I picked up with Richard Wright's haiku by learning Japanese a few years ago. Also, a late friend of mine, Richard Brautigan, who was a novelist, was becoming acquainted with Japanese culture. A few years before he died he told me he was going to Tokyo, so I feel that I should continue that journey. Also, a Chinese-American scholar, a friend of mine, Frank, Chin, pointed out the parallels between Chinese...
...hard to find, and nobody wrote it better, a couple of decades ago, than Tom Robbins. His rowdy novels Still Life with Woodpecker, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues and Another Roadside Attraction were cheerful, raunchy, anti-Establishment rambunctions. Their woozy aesthetic principle was that of Jack Kerouac and Richard Brautigan: Keep typing, Cowboy; brilliance may be just around the corner. And sometimes -- look what I found...
...Sporting Club to buy a ranch in Paradise Valley, Montana, where he moved with his wife, nee Betty Crockett (a direct descendant of Davy), and his son Thomas IV. The breathtaking scenery and anything-goes ambiance soon attracted a freewheeling constellation of characters that included fellow writer Richard Brautigan, actor Peter Fonda, painter Russell Chatham and director Sam Peckinpah. Before long, stories started coming out of the valley, ribald tales of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll that have become part of the local lore...
Casablanca workers Sunday night celebrated what waitress Margaret H. Brautigan termed "very much a victory...
...similar childhood calamities. At age 47, he is one of the most important writers in America today, published in both The New Yorker and in paperback--a rare, if dubious, achievement. Barthelme leads the so-called "comic irrealist" movement in modern fiction, which includes such lesser writers as Richard Brautigan and William Gass. But in his latest collection of short stories, Barthelme proves more adventurous than successful; stretched beyond its limits, his genre becomes tedious and inconsequential...