Admission: $4 adults, $3 seniors/students, $2 children, $10 families; members free. A close friend of Richard Brautigan will read from his biography of the late author and poet at 1:30 p.m. Saturday ...

Richard Brautigan spent a few years basking in the celebrity sun as the author of such counterculture classics as Trout Fishing in America and In Watermelon Sugar. But it was a short honeymoon, and ...

He was an author of such works as Trout Fishing in America, In Watermelon Sugar and The Hawkline Monster, wedged between the Beat Generation and the hippie movement. He showered readers of the 1960s ...

Make SFGATE a preferred source so your search results prioritize writing by actual people, not AI. Add Preferred Source The last time I saw Richard Brautigan was through the window in Vesuvio's bar in ...

On a sunny Sunday in the fall of 1984, hippie era icon Richard Brautigan shoved the barrel of a .44 magnum into his mouth, pulled the trigger and literally blew his brains out in his Terrace Avenue ...

Even if you’re not a Brautigan fan, it’s worth picking up novelist and screenwriter William Hjortsberg’s definitive new biography, Jubilee Hitchhiker, for intimate histories of 1960s counterculture in ...

You don’t have to be an award-winning author to get your work into the library that Washington writer Richard Brautigan dreamed up back in the 1960s — in fact, you don’t even have to have talent.

I DON'T think that Richard Brautigan is crazy. Granted, he was the focus of a crazy Saturday night, but that doesn't make him crazy. In fact, he's the most lucid person I've heard in quite a while. It ...

Basically, the technology of today seeks to replace, by a system of Humanistic Values, the older, Insect Values of social systems, i.e., the values of the Ant and the Cicada. But surely I digress.

"It's very hard to live in a studio apartment in San Jose with a man who's learning to play the violin." That's what she told the police when she handed them the empty revolver. Those two sentences ...