Downstream from Trout Fishing in America

in Downstream from Trout fishing in America: a memoir of Richard Brautigan by Keith Abbott paints a portrait of Richard Brautigan as a lovable and whimsical friend. Abbott explains the writer's dedication to the art of fiction and his quest to break beyond the pop culture, hippie label that haunted him until his suicide in 1984. Brautigan's tight prose inspired authors such as Haruki Murakami, and his experimentation with the line won him accolades from authors like Ishmael Reed, Raymond Carver, and Michael McClure. His work is highly influential and Abbott draws a clear connection between Brautigan's life and his writing. This book is essential for anyone who is interested in the of Richard Brautigan.

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The Procession of Mollusks

Eric E. Olson’s The Procession of Mollusks, is a psychological detective story that follows an investigator as he tries to solve the mystery surrounding the death of marine biologist. As he descends into the picturesque town of Newport Bay, things begin to get slippery for him, very slippery. As humans begin acting like mollusks and the static boundaries of the world and symbolic order begin to dissolve, the story slithers into a psychedelic world that has as much in common with the work of David Lynch as it does Paul Auster. The Procession of Mollusks is study on slippage and will not disappoint.

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Sleepers' Republic

In Sleepers’ Republic, we are asked to question love, to question politics, to question why we engage with these subjects the way we do. In poems that sometimes feel like songs from dreams long forgotten, David Gruber guides us through a world that is often upended by disappointment and we, lost in these musical poems, find beauty in that which we cannot control.

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