Two of my favorite Braughtigan books are "The Abortion" and "Willard and His Bowling Trophies". If you have not read them, treat yourself...

ARGH! i was on a road trip and got stranded in albequerque. i have a theory about that . . . . there are road side hunters who shoot invisible arrows into your car, which kills it, then they get the auto shop to convince you to scrap the car so they can grind them up and put them in the cheap (but very very tastey) food!! (i know that all sounds a little irrational, but its true, i SWEAR!).

i ever richard brautigan book i could get my hands on (and differnt versions of some of them), im only missing the really expensive chap books (ive seen some of them though, they are beautiful). i started reading him when i was 17, and have paced myself so that now, 8 years later, i still have "The Tokyo Montana Express" and an "Unfortunate Woman" left. Im almost to the point where im ready to go through them all again, but it was sad for a while, knowing i would someday, eventually, run out of his stories and poems.

Trout Fishing In America is my all time favorite masterpiece. I read it when I was 14 and it changed my life. I don't know why it changed my life specifically except that maybe there are simpler worlds than mine in the very land that these stories were written. I've been to the Benjamine Franklin Statue on the cover and have seen the Church across the street where the poor get their sandwiches. I've read every RB book I could get my hands on except for the ones I can't find as they're out of print and the one by his daughter at which time, when I discovered it in a not-so-obscure bookshoppe in Berkeley, I was broke and only able to window shop. I love Trout Fishing In America. I preformed the chapter Red Lip as a monologue for my theatre department. Thanks to Don for starting the Tribe.! woo hoo... =].

I grew up in Idaho and Wyoming, dreaming of San Francisco. RB, for my money is the best writer of our generation.