“Brautigan is good for you” - Bruce Cook, The National Observer
Dear Brautigan folk, Dinefwr ("'Din-er-ver") Park and Castle, where the festival will take place. We're thrilled to have been invited by Literature Wales to curate a trilogy of events for the...
We received a lovely email from Jimmy the Peach. Here's some of what he wrote: Hello, Richard Brautigan is absolutely my most inspirational author. I believe the first book of his was Rommel, a collection of poems, in 1972. Just out of high school. Read all of his work. And introduced all of my friends to his writing. In the last few months two of these old friends mentioned In Watermelon Sugar. Made a big impact on them, too. Grew up playing guitar and started writing songs around the 1972 as well. Been...
Mark Holloway / @forgottenworks, wrote in with this wonderful piece, put together after our In Watermelon Sugar session last month. Thanks so much, Mark! - Vera When did Richard Brautigan...
I’m back at Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club for April’s Brautigan Book Club (and late again…), this time the BBC are unpicking Brautigan’s ideas on the commune in In Watermelon Sugar. Drinks...
For all those who met Chris for the first time tonight, this is what I wrote about last month's book club meeting, as published online on the Reading Agency's blog. - Vera Brautigan Book Club: discussion and diversions 7 April 2012 / 0 Comments saltpeter's Vera Chok tells us about the second meeting of The Brautigan Book Club at the Bethnal Green Working Men's Club where Trout Fishing in America was discussed: Chris, an old Irishman and member of the actual working men's club, wandered into the room, post the...
SALENA GODDEN, gorgeous goddess of a poetess, will be presenting at May's Brautigan Book Club! Things are hotting up, and many more of you Brautigan fans out there are coming forward and volunteering...
Just some thoughts, following a few encouraging emails from Brautigan readers around the country. (Please forgive weird formatting. Posterous goes mad every so often!) One of the things I love about Richard Brautigan is how he is a key, if not the favourite, writer for so many people and that many of us think we're in isolation - the lucky few who have found him - and enjoy our feeling of being 'in' on this special secret. I don't believe I have done us all a disservice by steting up this book club, though. Someone...
