Author of the Week

Richard Brautigan published nine novels during his lifetime. Brautigan is noted for his whimsical novels that, by his own account, evolved from his efforts to write poetry.
"One day when I was twenty-five years old, I looked down and realized that I could write a sentence. Let's try one of those classic good-bye lines," "I don't think we should see so much of each other any more because I think we're getting a little too serious," "which really meant that I wrote my first novel Trout Fishing in America and followed it with three other novels."
The three that followed were A Confederate General from Big Sur, In Watermelon Sugar, and The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966. Then there were his experiments with literary genres: The Hawkline Monster (a gothic western), Willard and His Bowling Trophies (a perverse mystery), Sombrero Fallout (a Japanese novel), Dreaming of Babylon (a detective novel 1942), and The Tokyo-Montana Express (a travel journal 1980). Where Brautigan's first three novels catapulted him to fame and recognition, these departures brought infamy and obscurity. Brautigan's last two novels were the foreboding So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away, and finally, the fateful An Unfortunate Woman.

I don't recommend any of this crap.