Today’s spotlight feature on OF is about a favorite writer of mine: Richard Brautigan - Jan 30, 1935 - 1984, suicide…
Brautigan was a literary jester, a fellow traveller of the Beats for a while, and then he struck out for unknown territories, staking a claim as one of the first truly post-modern American novelists - one cut from a different cloth than the intellectual postmodernism of Pynchon and Barth. Or as he might have described himself:
βHe created his own Kool Aid reality and was able to illuminate himself by it.β β Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America
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