The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings
Boston/New York: Mariner/Houghton Mifflin, 1995.
122 pages; ISBN 0-395-97469-0; First printing 1 July 1995
Paperback, with printed wrappers. No hardback issue, other than limited edition (see "Other Editions").
Introduction by Keith Abbott.
Front cover photograph by Erik Weber of Brautigan.

The contents of this collection were given by Brautigan to Edna Webster over a period of time between 3 November 1955 and June 1956, when he left Eugene, Oregon, bound for San Francisco, California. On 3 November 1955, perhaps fearing his parent's efforts to force him into psychiatric care, and seeking safe keeping for his writing, Brautigan wrote and signed a short note granting Webster exclusive ownership of his writings.

On this third day of November, 1955, I, Richard Brautigan, give all of my writings to Edna Webster. They are now her property, and she may do what she wishes with them. If she has them published, all of the money derived from publication is hers.
           Richard Brautigan

Other manuscripts were written following Brautigan's release from the Oregon State Hospital, 19 February 1956, and were perhaps given to Webster for safe keeping when he left for San Francisco, California, in June.

Finally, some manuscripts in the original collection were rejected by various publishers and returned to Webster according to the address on the return envelope provided by Brautigan.

Webster was Brautigan's confidant and surrogate mother. Her son, Peter, was Brautigan's best friend. Her daughter, Linda, was Brautigan's first girlfriend. Several of the writings in this collection were dedicated to Linda and/or Edna.

Webster sold the materials in October 1992 to James Musser and Burton Weiss, both rare book dealers. Much of this material comprised The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings and several speciality publications. For example, the poem "Desire in A Bowl of Potatoes" was published as a mini-broadside in 2001, and a chapbook in 2005. The poem "Please" was published as a mini-broadside in 2003. Neither was included in The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings.

Following publication of The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings, many of the original manuscripts and other materials went to The Bancroft Library, at The University of California-Berkeley, where they became part of The Richard Brautigan Collection. Other pieces remained the property of Musser and Weiss.

Deanna (Webster) Hershiser, daughter of Peter Webster, published a short essay entitled "A Discovered Legacy," in which she recounts her grandmother, Edna Webster, showing her Brautigan's writings, and her father telling stories about Brautigan (Camroc Press Review 20 September 2009).

Hershiser's essay at the Camroc Press Review website

Hershiser's website

The original collection included handwritten notebooks filled with previously unpublished stories, poems, short novels, photographs, and personal items. Save for works written prior to 3 November 1955, most were written between Brautigan's release from the Oregon State Hospital, 19 February 1956 and June 1956 when he left Eugene, Oregon, bound for San Francisco, California. The notebooks were titled

• i love You (1955)
• There's Always Somebody Who Is Enchanted (1956)
• A Love Letter From State Insane Asylum (1956)
• Rock around the Clock (1956)
• Would You Like to Saddle Up a Couple of Goldfish and Swim to Alaska? (1956)
• I Watched the World Glide Effortlessly Bye (1956)
• Seven Rooms Each as Big as God
• Poems for Edna (spring 1956)

Dedicated "for Linda," this manuscript was begun on 22 November 1955 and finished five days later, on 27 November. It was a fair copy of how Brautigan visualized the published layout for this collection of poems for Linda Webster. Dedicated "for Linda," the manuscript consisted of seventy-six poems, each on a separate page. The poems were bracketed by the question, "What is love?" at the beginning and the statement "love never ends" at the conclusion. Also at the conclusion, Brautigan included the following statement regarding the nature and future of the book

this is Linda Webster's book
it is a symbol of my love for her.

i will not give this book to Linda
until i know that She loves me.

it the world is going to get this book,
Linda will have to give it to the world.

will i give this book to Linda?
will the world get this book?

only God knows.

richard brautigan
november 27th, 1955
eugene, oregon

The content included the following poems, none of which were included in The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings.

• a cookie
• i saw You for the first time
• my love is a glass of milk
• new
• i would walk back across hell to get Your hat
• spring
• flowers
• the things about You
• Your voice
• our
• love is an enchanted thing
• my soul
• to be there
• happy
• above the sky
• please let this be the poem of Your soul
• sunrises
• forever
• in the morning
• fire
• the things You want to hear
• question
• i will pick a star for You
• perhaps
• the four most beautiful women in the whole world
• i need You like a rose needs the sun
• all the time
• the soft warm of You up against me
• puppy
• for Linda
• eyes
• beside a river
• tickle
• a letter
• beyond even spring shower
• the poetry of Your hands
• bath
• pain
• white clothes
• or i will never have anything
• rainbow
• her
• God's home
• skin
• a coke
• it will always be dawn
• eastern oregon
• a piece of grass
• and kiss You
• cry
• a blue flower to put in Your brown hair
• a star
• God's love
• the dishes
• a billion poems
• nothing but purity
• forgive me
• beautiful Linda
• i pray for You
• worlds
• happy
• You went back into the house
• Your hand
• christmas tree
• in the dawn
• the forest of Your heart
• below the dam
• a flower
• kitten
• i want to put You back together again
• the highest mountain
• a kiss
• a wonderful dream
• i will jump a million miles into the sky
• why do i love You?

This manuscript was written in 1956 while Brautigan lived with Harold and Lois Barton at their ranch on Fox Hollow Road/Harry Taylor Road, outside of Eugene, Oregon, following his release from the Oregon State Hospital, 19 February 1956. Dedicated "for Edna" [Webster], this manuscript was a fair copy of how Brautigan visualized the published layout for the nine short stories. All were collected and published in "There's Always Somebody Who Is Enchanted" section of The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings.

• maybe this is the way the world will end
• mr. allen
• monsters that drink human blood
• there's always somebody who is enchanted
• awakening
• just love
• trite story
• the old women
• the forest

This manuscript was written in 1956 while Brautigan lived with Harold and Lois Barton at their ranch on Fox Hollow Road/Harry Taylor Road, outside of Eugene, Oregon, following his release from the Oregon State Hospital, 19 February 1956. This work was collected and published in The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings in its entirety.

This manuscript was written while in 1956 Brautigan lived with Harold and Lois Barton at their ranch on Fox Hollow Road/Harry Taylor Road, outside of Eugene, Oregon, following his release from the Oregon State Hospital, 19 February 1956. Dedicated "for Edna" [Webster], this manuscript included eight short stories/novels/chapters of one novel. Those marked with asterisks, below, were collected and published in The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings.

1. "story with a happy ending" recounts the death by heart attack of Mrs. Jones on "the ninth day of November." When her husband, Mr. Jones, found her body, he died of a heart attack as well. The couple had been married fifty-two years. They were buried together.
2. An untitled observation* [with sister Barbara?] of crawfish eating a sea lamprey. Titled "crawdads eating a sea lamprey" in The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings.
3. "mr. otto's sunday school class"* recounts Mr. Otto, the undertaker, asking his Sunday school class whether they would like to be nailed to a cross, and his death, on 3 June 1938, after being hit by a train while driving his hearse.
4. "a haunted child"* describes a mother watching her daughter crying in her sleep. Sometimes the mother wakes the child, who then stops crying, does not know that she had been crying, and iss mad at her mother for waking her. This time the mother lets the child continue crying in her sleep.
5. "rock around the clock"* recounts meeting Linda Webster (called "Pat" in the manuscript) in a record store. Brautigan is in a glass-walled booth, listening to the recording "Rock around the Clock" when Linda comes in, selects two records (one is "Love Is A Many Splendored Thing") and begins listening to them in the glass-walled booth just next to his. They stare at each other through the glass walls. Brautigan leaves his own booth and enters Linda's. "I like you," he says. This story/novel was also included in the manuscript, Why Unknown Poets Remain Unknown.
6. "a visit from jake"* recounts a visit by the ghost of Brautigan's brother Jake, dead six years. Brautigan and Jake talk and drink beer. Brautigan concludes that one does not appreciate others until they "have been dead for a few years."
7. "one man's family"* focuses on the lack of experience in Lester Rubenstien's life. This story/novel was included in another manuscript, Why Unknown Poets Remain Unknown which lends its title to Part 1 of The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings.
8. "a glass of beer"* provides Brautigan's vision of his mother drinking beer. This story/novel was also included in the manuscript, Why Unknown Poets Remain Unknown which lends its title to Part 1 of The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings.

This manuscript was written while in 1956 Brautigan lived with Harold and Lois Barton at their ranch on Fox Hollow Road/Harry Taylor Road, outside of Eugene, Oregon, following his release from the Oregon State Hospital, 19 February 1956. It was a fair copy of how Brautigan visualized the published layout for this short novel. Dedicated to Edna Webster, the novel is a love fantasy inspired by Brautigan's gift of two goldfish to her daughter, Linda, called "Grace" in the manuscript. Grace is seventeen. Brautigan, the narrator, called simply "I," is nineteen, Brautigan's two-year fantasy age difference, rather than the six-year difference (Linda was fourteen; Brautigan twenty) that troubled him so. The manuscript was first published as a speciality publication by The Bancroft Library Press in 1995 and later collected and published in its entirety in The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings.

This manuscript was written while in 1956 Brautigan lived with Harold and Lois Barton at their ranch on Fox Hollow Road/Harry Taylor Road, outside of Eugene, Oregon, following his release from the Oregon State Hospital, 19 February 1956. It was a fair copy of how Brautigan visualized the published layout for this short novel. Dedicated to Edna Webster, and consisting of fifty-seven chapters, each on a separate page, the novel runs a total of 315 words. In this novel, Brautigan recounts being taken to the Oregon State Hospital on 25 December 1955. The manuscript was first published as a speciality publication by Burton Weiss and James P. Musser in 1996 and later collected and published in its entirety in The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings.

This manuscript was a poetry collection.

This manuscript was written in 1956 while Brautigan lived with Harold and Lois Barton at their ranch on Fox Hollow Road/Harry Taylor Road, outside of Eugene, Oregon, following his release from the Oregon State Hospital, 19 February 1956. This manuscript was an 18-page collection of poems. In the scratched out, draft dedication, Brautigan wrote, in part, of trying

with all my might to make these poems pure. But I have failed, as I knew I would when I started to write them, because my soul cannot find its way through my stupid intellect.

Edna, you are very intelligent and sensitive and good. I hope that god will be able to see the things that my soul was trying to say.

The content included the following. Poems marked with asterisks, were collected and published in The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings.

• Always The Geese*
• A Woman's Eyes*
• Love Is*
• Hi
• Tom's Soul*
• Cats*
• Prayer of a Broken-hearted Lover
• Somebody Comes to This Place*
• Let's Walk Downtown Together
• A Lonely Wet*
• The First Day of My Life
  Scratched out, but clearly the start of the novel Revenge of the Lawn
• The Haunted Heart*
• A Greene Whore
• In the Days of the Swans*
• When My Soul Didn't Love Me*
• A Butcher Knife*
• Remembrance of an Enchanted Exploration
• Voice from a Long Ago Dusk*
• Hurry, Young Lovers*
• Poem of a Highly-successful Underewear [sic] Manufacturer
• The Gentle Hunter*
• Something*
• The Death of a Friend
• Will My Soul Walk in the Rain?*
• Anyone for Kleenex?*
• Poem for Linda Webster When She Is Old Enough to Find Her Way Around in the Valley of Poetry*
  The word "enchanted" is scratched out just before the phrase "valley of poetry"
• Days*
• Purrings of My Soul

Berkeley and Forest Knolls, CA: Burton Weiss and James P. Musser, 1999.
75 press-numbered copies
Hard cover binding of the regular trade edition with an added colophon page, issued without a dustjacket.
Introduction by Keith Abbott who signed all 75 copies on the colophon page and stamped each in red ink with a Chinese seal he designed.

65 copies numbered 1-65
Quarter-bound by John DeMerritt in cloth and marbled paper boards

10 copies numbered I-X
Bound by John DeMerritt in full burgundy Nigerian goatskin
Title stamped in copper and ivory

Separate broadside included featuring two poems from the book
Broadside printed by David Deiss in an edition of only 10 copies

Advance Reader Copy (ARC) / Uncorrected Page Proof Boston: Mariner Original, 1999.
Notes publication date as September 16, 1999, size as 5.5" x 8.25", and national advertising in Village Voice, Boston Phoenix, Seattle Weekly, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Willamette Week, Washington City Paper, and LA Weekly.

Pourquoi les Poètes Inconnus Restent Inconnus [Why Unknown Poets Stay Unknown]. Trans. Thierry Beauchamp and Romain Rabier. Bordeaux: Le Castor Astral, 2003.
256 pages; ISBN: 2-859-20521-7
Hard cover, with dust jacket
First printing April 2003.

Das Geschenk für Edna Webster. Regensburg: Kartaus Verlag, 2003.
125 pages; ISBN 3-936-05404-5; Paperback, with printed wrappers.

Der Kartaus Verlag website

The stories and poems in this collection are funny and buoyant and show Brautigan as hopelessly lovestruck, goofy, and innocent. Unless noted, poems and novels first published in this volume in the order listed below.


"My name is Richard Brautigan." "For Edna," "knife" "the wait" "x" "song of a sex deviate" "the south" "good-bye" "man" "a woman's eyes"

I Watched the World Glide Effortlessly Bye
Fairfax, CA: Burton Weiss and James P. Musser, 1996.
Includes the novels I Watched the World Glide Effortlessly Bye, The Conscripted Storyteller, and a visit from jake; and three poems, "Nature Lover, or Something," "a woman's eyes," and "Phantom Kiss."

The poem "Phantom Kiss" was printed on a 13" x 4" bumper sticker and included with each copy of the leather bound (6 copies) and lettered versions (26 copies) of I Watched the World Glide Effortlessly Bye. Only 32 copies were printed, black ink on white stock. Each copy was numbered. "i dreamt i was a bird" "o life!" "poem for l.w." "television program" "dear old mommie" "i discovered death" "ex-lovers meet" "nightmare" "a nickel" "incongruity" "lonny" "a game called eternity" "men" "horsemeat for sale" "portrait of man" "nothing new" "the eternal she" "a young man" "it's raining" "if i should die before you do" "lesson" "fly caught in a spider's web" "let's walk downtown together" "breathe on me" "against conformity and averageism" "maggots eating my brain" "gay: tra-la-la" "god, have mercy on this young lover" "all the cities at once" "a memory of life will be frozen in my eyes" "phantom kiss"

I Watched the World Glide Effortlessly Bye
Fairfax, CA: Burton Weiss and James P. Musser, 1996.
Includes the novels I Watched the World Glide Effortlessly Bye, The Conscripted Storyteller, and a visit from jake; and three poems, "Nature Lover, or Something," "a woman's eyes," and "Phantom Kiss."

The poem "Phantom Kiss" was printed on a 13" x 4" bumper sticker and included with each copy of the leather bound (6 copies) and lettered versions (26 copies) of I Watched the World Glide Effortlessly Bye. Only 32 copies were printed, black ink on white stock. Each copy was numbered. "to wooer" "don't be afraid of death" "white tiger and enchanted cave" "the death of time" "The Conscripted Storyteller"

I Watched the World Glide Effortlessly Bye
Fairfax, CA: Burton Weiss and James P. Musser, 1996.
Includes the novels I Watched the World Glide Effortlessly Bye, The Conscripted Storyteller, and a visit from jake; and three poems, "Nature Lover, or Something," "a woman's eyes," and "Phantom Kiss."

The poem "Phantom Kiss" was printed on a 13" x 4" bumper sticker and included with each copy of the leather bound (6 copies) and lettered versions (26 copies) of I Watched the World Glide Effortlessly Bye. Only 32 copies were printed, black ink on white stock. Each copy was numbered.
Would You Like to Saddle Up a Couple of Goldfish and Swim to Alaska?

Would you like to saddle up a couple of goldfish and swim to Alaska?
Berkeley, CA: The Bancroft Library Press, 1995.
"The Egg Hunter" "James Dean in Eugene, Oregon"
"A" "Dear Jane,"
"Jane" is Edna Webster. "Estella" is her daughter, Linda, with whom Brautigan was hopelessly in love.
I Watched the World Glide Effortlessly Bye

I Watched the World Glide Effortlessly Bye
Fairfax, CA: Burton Weiss and James P. Musser, 1996.
Includes the novels I Watched the World Glide Effortlessly Bye, The Conscripted Storyteller, and a visit from jake; and three poems, "Nature Lover, or Something," "a woman's eyes," and "Phantom Kiss."

The poem "Phantom Kiss" was printed on a 13" x 4" bumper sticker and included with each copy of the leather bound (6 copies) and lettered versions (26 copies) of I Watched the World Glide Effortlessly Bye. Only 32 copies were printed, black ink on white stock. Each copy was numbered. "Somebody from Hemingway Land"
"maybe this is the way the world will end" "mr. allen" "monsters that drink human blood" "there's always somebody who is enchanted" "awakening" "just love" "the old woman" "the forest" "a visit from jake"

I Watched the World Glide Effortlessly Bye (1996).

Also published in
a visit from jake
X-Ray 6 Winter 1996.
"rock around the clock" "The Flower Burner"
"Please Let Me Walk" "Everybody and the Rose" "Linda"
"Always the Geese" "Love Is" "Tom's Soul"
Possibly written for Tom, a yellow cat Brautigan wrote about in A Love Letter From State Insane Asylum saying "one day he went away. He never came back home again." "Cats" "Somebody Comes to This Place" "A Lonely Wet" "The Haunted Heart" "In the Days of the Swans" "When My Soul Didn't Love Me" "A Butcher Knife" "Voice from a Long-Ago Dusk" "Hurry, Young Lovers" "The Gentle Hunter" "Something" "Will My Soul Walk in the Rain?" "Anyone for Kleenex?" "Poem for Linda Webster When She Is Old Enough to Find Her Way Around in the Valley of Poetry" "Days" "the unemployed dreamers" "poem for edna" "Untitled" ("Jesus:") "portrait of an american teenage girl" "farewell to my oedipus complex" "Untitled" ("I am waiting anxiously") "a green neon sign which is happy" "a hard day's work" "we had fried rainbow trout for breakfast" "the mind is the strangest city" "the unknown dreamer" "of course, we will not live happily ever after" "creation of a poem" "there was a wire screen between us" "a coke" "the poetry of your hands" "eyes" "perhaps" "i would walk back across hell to get Your hat" "phonograph 15" "story 3: the embarrassed hearse driver" "still life 4" "still life 1" "question 4" "profound saying 4" "photograph 12" "family portrait 3" "photograph 9" "profound saying 2" "family portrait 2" "family portrait 1" "poem 1: the man who turned into a top" "photograph 8" "photograph 3" "photograph 10" "still life 2" "profound saying 3" "photograph 4" "photograph 6" "poem 4: love poem" "still life 3" "story 1: in god's arms "photograph 5" "question 1" "photograph 4" "crawdads eating a sea lamprey" "a haunted child" "Poem for Little Momma" "That Thing Which Walks the Earth" "A Deer Hunting Memoir" "Poem for Whom I Love a Green-Colored True" "Called War" "Untitled" ("There is a dark house") "mr. otto's sunday school class" "One Man's Family" "a glass of beer" "The Flower Picker" "in death's heart" "child of the lovers" "she came along" "image" "a twentieth-century dream" "my ivory tower" "advertisement" "argument" "a christmas tree in a graveyard" "hunger for a star" "Nature Lover, or Something"

I Watched the World Glide Effortlessly Bye
Fairfax, CA: Burton Weiss and James P. Musser, 1996.
Includes the novels I Watched the World Glide Effortlessly Bye, The Conscripted Storyteller, and a visit from jake; and three poems, "Nature Lover, or Something," "a woman's eyes," and "Phantom Kiss."

The poem "Phantom Kiss" was printed on a 13" x 4" bumper sticker and included with each copy of the leather bound (6 copies) and lettered versions (26 copies) of I Watched the World Glide Effortlessly Bye. Only 32 copies were printed, black ink on white stock. Each copy was numbered.

In addition to the specific reviews detailed below, this collection may also be included in General Reviews of Brautigan's work and his place in American literature.


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Bowman's review at the Salon.com website
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Hjortsberg's review at SFGate.com website
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Lewis' review at the LA Weekly website
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Martin's review at the Seattle Weekly website

The convoluted story of this early volume of the writing of the late Richard Brautigan goes back to the mists of time, to Brautigan's youth. He was 21 and living in Eugene in Oregon, he was on his way to San Francisco, to become a writer, find his fame and fortune. Brautigan was unpublished and unknown, Edna Webster was the mother of his first girlfriend and he is reported to have said to her, "When I am rich and famous this will be your social security." It is not recorded what the name of Richard's girlfriend was, she remains simply Edna Webster's daughter, possibly the forthcoming biography of Brautigan will shed light on her. The writings lay in a drawer in Edna Webster's house until recent times when she began to think of her social security and approached publishers. Brautigan's wishes for her came to pass. These are very early writings, derivative yet bearing the hallmarks that set Brautigan out as a writer with an outrageously brilliant imagination and the capacity to create alternate worlds. In his introductory essay Keith Abbott hints at the renewed interest in Brautigan after he faded with the withered blooms of the late 1960s and descended into an early death by his own hand. His books are again in print, with a few exceptions, they are very much keys to the almost underground history of the hippie era, telling tales other than peace and love. Brautigan was often an outsider and he appeals to outsiders, whether they occupy that position by choice or accident. A book for dreamers and those who still follow their dreams.

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Trout Fishing in America, The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster, In Watermelon Sugar New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1969
112/108/138 pages; ISBN 1-1997-8543-1; First printing September 1969
Hard cover, with dust jacket.

Facsimile reprints of Trout Fishing in America, The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar in the manner of their original editions, including front cover photographs and title pages. Front cover photograph by Edmund Shea of Michaela Blake-Grand, Brautigan's daugher Ianthe, and Brautigan. Blake-Grand also appeared with Brautigan on the front cover of Trout Fishing in America. Back cover is blue with the word "mayonnaise" centered in white. Blue titles on front cover and spine. These same treatments are repreated on front and back dust jacket. Includes a review for each book.

Not only was this the first combined edition of any of Brautigan's works, it was also the first hard cover edition of Trout Fishing in America. Publication of this collection resulted from a report by Kurt Vonnegut of Brautigan's West Coast popularity. Delacorte negotiated with Four Seasons Foundation to publish these three books. Three hundred thousand copies sold during the first year of publication.

A promotional party ("an afternoon with Richard Brautigan"), 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM, was hosted by Book People at their store, 2010 7th Street (at University Avenue), Berkeley, California. The 8.5" x 11" hand-written, hand-drawn, mimeographed flyer promoting the event was printed black on yellow paper and featured an illustration of Brautigan enclosed in a sun shining on the Book People store.

Brautigan, fearful of change and thinking earlier success marked a magical formula, insisted that each book faithfully reproduce its earlier edition, including cover art, critical comments, and pagination.

New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1989
112/108/138 pages; ISBN 0-395-50076-1; First printing 1 March 1989
Paperback, with printed wrappers.
Front cover photograph by Erik Weber of Brautigan and Michaela Blake-Grand which first appeared on the front cover of the first edition of Trout Fishing in America.
Back cover is red with the word "mayonnaise" centered in white.

In addition to the specific reviews detailed below, the novels in this collection may also be included in General Reviews of Brautigan's work and his place in American literature. They were also each reviewed separately at the time of their original publication. See each novel for specific reviews.


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A flat signed and dated first edition copy.

Richard Brautigan
Montana / 1983

(Courtesy of Ross Smith)
A flat signed and dated third edition copy.

Richard Brautigan
June 1, 1971

A flat signed and dated first edition copy.

Richard Brautigan
October 27, 1969

From the collection of Gregory Miller. Used by permission.

Quarter-page advertisement
Black and white
5" x 7"
Rolling Stone 1969

In addition to the specific reviews detailed below, the novels in this collection may also be included in General Reviews of Brautigan's work and his place in American literature. They were also each reviewed separately at the time of their original publication. See each novel for specific reviews.

The New York Times Book Review 6 December 1970: 102.
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London Magazine, a bimonthly arts journal, featured poetry, articles, fiction, arts, and reviews. This issue also included a discussion of John Cage and Indeterminacy by Roger Sutherland, poetry by Sylvia Plath, and fiction by Elaine Feinstein. The cover art accompanied an article titled "Notes on the Decline and Fall of Indian Clothing" by Nirad Chaudhuri. This issue ran to 160 pages and was edited by Alan Ross.

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Contemporary Literary Criticism. Vol. 12. Ed. Dedria Bryfonski. Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1980. 57-74.

Contemporary Literary Criticism. Vol. 1. Ed. Carolyn Riley. Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1973. 44-45.
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Contemporary Literary Criticism. Vol. 12. Ed. Dedria Bryfonski. Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1980. 57-74.
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READ the full text of this review. Library Journal Book Review 1970. Ed. Judith Serebnick. New York and London: Sowker, 1970. 703.

Brautigan is not the promising young writer of the year. . . . He [does not take] his writing seriously. . . . He is artlessly irreverent . . . wildly funny. . . . He blasphemes the continuing traditions of American literature . . . defies the timeless enigmas of man, and shuns the proper, proven subjects and characters. . . . So it is difficult to proceed, unarmed as we are, with no convenient facts to gird our loins, with little literary reputation to take up and guide our venture, with no syllabus for another school of humor. [Brautigan emerges as a humorist.] Brautigan, if he is hailed for anything, will be known for his comedy—pure and simple.

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Survey of Contemporary Literature. Revised Edition. Ed. Frank N. Magill. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, 1977. Vol. 2. 883-889.