Jubilee Hitchhiker: The Life and Times of Richard Brautigan

by William Hjortsberg

  Richard Brautigan/The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston/New York, 1999.

  An Unfortunate Woman/A Journey, St. Martins Press, New York, 2000.

  published broadsides by richard brautigan

  September California, San Francisco Arts Festival Commission, San Francisco, 1964.

  Karma Repair Kit, Communication Company, San Francisco, 1967.

  All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace, Communication Company, San Francisco, 1967.

  Flowers for Those You Love, Communication Company, San Francisco, 1967.

  Love Poem, Communication Company, San Francisco, 1967.

  The Beautiful Poem, Communication Company, San Francisco, 1967.

  Spinning Like a Ghost on the Bottom of a Top, I’m Haunted by All the Space That I Will Live Without You, Communication Company, San Francisco, October 1967.

  The San Francisco Weather Report, Graham Mackintosh, San Francisco, 1968.

  Five Poems, Serendipity Books, Berkeley, 1971.

  Knock on Wood [Part 2], Tideline Press, 1979.

  magazine and periodical publications by richard brautigan

  Five Stops on the Tokyo-Montana Express, “California Living,” The Magazine of the San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle, November 2, 1980.

  A Happy But Footsore Writer Celebrates His Driver’s Block, “People Weekly,” in conversation with Cheryl McCall, June 8, 1981.

  Richard Brautigan: Tokyo and Montana, “Washington Review,” Cover title: Two New Works by Richard Brautigan, Vol. 9, No. 5, Washington, D.C., February/March 1984.

  poetry

  Another World/A Second Anthology of Works from the St. Mark’s Poetry Project, 1971.

  Beatitude, No. 1, May 9, 1959; No. 4, May 30, 1959.

  Beatitude Anthology, 1960.

  Big Venus, 1969.

  Blue Suede Shoes, 424, 1973.

  California Living, May 16, 1971.

  Epos, Vol. 8 No. 2, Winter 1956; Vol. 9 No. 3, Spring 1958;

  Existaria, No. 7, September-October 1957.

  Flame, Vol. II No. 3, Autumn 1955.

  Foot, No. 1, September 1959.

  Green Flag Journal for the Protection of All Beings, No. 3, 1969.

  Hearse, 1958, 1961.

  Heliotrope, Summer 1969.

  Hollow Orange, No. 4, 1967.

  J, No. 4, November 1959; No. 5, December, 1959.

  Mainstream, Vol. II No. II, Summer-Autumn 1957.

  Man in the Poetic Mode, No. 3, 1970; No. 4, 1970.

  Mark in Time Portraits & Poetry, 1971.

  O’er, # 2, December 1966.

  One Lord, One Faith, One Cornbread, 1973.

  Rolling Stone, Vol. 32, May 3, 1969

  San Francisco Review, Vol. 1 No. 2, Spring 1959.

  Sum, No. 3, May 1964.

  Sun, No. 9, August 7, 1968.

  The American Literary Anthology/2, 1969.

  The Berkeley Review, Vol. 1 No. 3, Berkeley, 1957.

  The Digger Papers, August 1968.

  The Free You, Vol. 3 No. 6, May 1969.

  The Paris Review, No. 45, Winter 1968.

  The San Francisco Keeper’s Voice, Vol. 1 No. 4, April 1965.

  The San Francisco Poets, August, 1971.

  The World, No. 21, January 1971.

  Tri-Quarterly, No. 11, Winter 1968.

  Wild Dog, 18, July 17, 1965.

  prose

  California Living, January 14, 1979.

  Change, 1963.

  City Lights Journal, No. 1, 1963.

  Coyote’s Journal, No. 5-6, 1966.

  Earth, Vol. 2 No. 1, January 1971.

  Esquire, October 1970; March 1975.

  Evergreen Review, No. 31, October/November 1963; No. 33, August/September 1964; No. 42, August 1966; No. 61, December 1968; No. 76, March 1970; No. 84, November 1970;

  Grosseteste Review, Vol. 1 No. 3, Winter 1968.

  Kulchur, Vol. 4 No. 13, Spring 1964.

  Mademoiselle, July 1970.

  New American Review, No. 12, 1971.

  Nice, Vol. 1 No. 1, 1966.

  Now Now, 1965.

  Playboy, December 1970.

  R. C. Lion, #2, 1966.

  Ramparts, December 1967.

  Rolling Stone, No. 24, December 21, 1968; No. 25, January 4, 1969; No. 26, February 1, 1969; No. 27, February 16, 1969; No. 28, March 1, 1969; No. 29, March 15, 1969; No. 30, April 5, 1969; No. 31, April 19, 1969; No. 33, May 17, 1969; No. 34, May 31, 1969; No. 36, June 29, 1969; No. 37, July 12, 1969; No. 39, August 9, 1969; No. 41, September 6, 1969; No. 42, September 20, 1969; No. 48 December 13, 1969; No. 63, July 23, 1970.

  San Francisco Stories, 1979.

  The Beatles Lyrics Illustrated, November 1975.

  The Co-Evolution Quarterly, No. 9, March 20, 1976; No. 21, Spring 1979.

  The Dutton Review, No. 1, 1970.

  The Overland Journey of Joseph Francl, 1968.

  The Pacific Nation, No. 1, Summer 1967.

  The Stone Wall Book of Short Fictions, 1973.

  Tri-Quarterly, No. 1, Fall 1964; No. 5, Winter 1966; No. 35, Winter 1976.

  Vogue, July 1971.

  books about richard brautigan

  Abbott, Keith, Downstream From “Trout Fishing in America”, A Memoir of Richard Brautigan, Capra Press, Santa Barbara, 1989.

  Allen, Beverly, My Days With Richard, Serendipity Books, Berkeley, 2002.

  Barber, John F., Richard Brautigan: An Annotated Bibliography, McFarland & Co., Jefferson, NC, 1990.

  Barber, John F., Richard Brautigan: Essays on the Writings and Life, McFarland & Co., Jefferson, NC 2007.

  Boyer, Jay, Richard Brautigan, Boise State University, Boise, 1987.

  Brautigan, Ianthe, You Can’t Catch Death, A Daughter’s Memoir, St. Martins Press, New York, 2000.

  Chénetier, Marc, Richard Brautigan, Methuen, London, 1983.

  Fujimoto, Kazuko, Richard Brautigan, Shinchosa, Tokyo, 2002.

  Keeler, Greg, Waltzing with the Captain: Remembering Richard Brautigan, Limberlost Press, Boise, 2004.

  Meltzer, David, ed., The San Francisco Poets, Ferlinghetti, Rexroth, Welch, McClure, Brautigan, Everson, talk about their lives and their work, Ballatine Books, New York, 1971.

  Showalter, Craig V., Collecting Richard Brautigan, Kumquat Pressworks, Pine Island, MN 2001

  Weber, Erik, Richard Brautigan Photographs 1962-1978, Erik Weber Photography, San Francisco, 1991.

  other books consulted

  Alvarez, A., The Savage God, A Study of Suicide, Random House, New York, 1970, 1971, 1972.

  Amburn, Ellis, Subterranean Kerouac, The Hidden Life of Jack Kerouac, St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1998.

  Anthony, Gene, Foreword by Michael McClure, The Summer of Love, Haight-Ashbury At Its Highest, Celestial Arts, Millbrae, CA, 1980.

  Arons, Stephan, Compelling Belief: The Culture of American Schooling, University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, 1986.

  Baedeker’s AA, Tokyo, The Complete Illustrated City Guide, The Automobile Association, UK and Ireland, 1983.

  Biasotti, David, Mad River, Shagrat, United Kingdom, 2011.

  Cassady, Carolyn, Off the Road, My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg, William Morrow and Company, Inc., New York, 1990.

  Chapple, Steve, Don’t Mind Dying, A Novel of Country Lust & Urban Decay, Doubleday, 1980.

  Charters, Ann, Foreword by John Clellon Holmes, Beats & Company, Portrait of a Literary Generation, Doubleday & Company, New York, 1986.

  Cifelli, Edward M., ed., The Selected Letters of JOHN CIARDI, The University of Arkansas Press, Fayetteville, 1991.

  Clark, Tom, Edward Dorn, A World of Difference, North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, 2002.

  Connor, Judith and Yoshida, Mayumi, Tokyo City Guide, Ryuko Tsushin Co., Ltd., Tokyo, 1984.

  Cook, Bruce, The Beat Generation, The tumultuous ‘50s movement and its impact on today, Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1971.

  Coyote, Peter, sleeping where I fall, (a chronicle), Cou
nterpoint, Washington, D.C., 1998.

  Creeley, Robert, The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley 1945-1975, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1982.

  Cregg, Magda, ed., Hey Lew, homage to Lew Welch, Magda Cregg, Bolinas, CA 1997.

  Davis, James E. and Hawke, Sharryl Davis, Tokyo, Raintree Publishers, Milwaukee, 1990.

  Delattre, Pierre, Episodes, Allen Ginsberg, Charles de Gaulle, Richard Brautigan, and the Dalai Lama Meet in the Pages of this Wild and Magical Zen Distillation of Bohemian Life, GrayWolf Press, 1993.

  Dorn, Edward, Selected Poems, (Preface by Robert Creeley, edited by Donald Allen), Grey Fox Press, Bolinas, 1965.

  Downs, Tom, San Francisco, The liveliest guide to the USA’s most exuberant city, Lonely Planet Publications, Melbourne, 1999.

  Drabble, Margaret, ed., The Oxford Companion to English Literature, Fifth Edition, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1985.

  Draper, Robert, Rolling Stone Magazine, The Uncensored History, Harper Perennial, New York, 1991.

  Ellingham, Lewis, and Killian, Kevin, Poet Be Like God, Jack Spicer and the San Francisco Renaissance, Wesleyan University Press, Hanover, NH, 1998.

  Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, and Peters, Nancy J., Literary San Francisco, A Pictorial History from Its Beginnings to the Present Day, City Lights Books and Harper & Row Publishers, San Francisco, 1980.

  Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, Pictures of the gone world, City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1955.

  Fleischmann, Christa, Photographer; Johnson, Robert E., Coordinator; Harvey, Nick, Editor, Mark In Time, Portraits & Poetry/San Francisco, Glide Publications, San Francisco, 1971.

  Fodor’s, Tokyo 1987, Fodor’s Travel Publications, Inc., New York & London, 1987.

  Foster, Edward Halsey, Jack Spicer, Boise State University, Boise, ID, 1991.

  Gilliam, Harold, Island in Time: The Point Reyes Peninsula, Sierra Club, San Francisco, 1962.

  Gifford, Barry & Lee, Lawrence, Jack’s Book, An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac, With the Voices of the Men and Women Who Populate the Kerouac Novels, Including: William Burroughs, Carolyn Cassady, Malcolm Cowley, Allen Ginsberg, John Clellon Holmes, Gore Vidal, & others, St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1978.

  Ginsberg, Allen, Introduction by William Carlos Williams, Howl, And Other Poems, City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1956.

  Ginsberg, Allen, edited by Barry Miles, Howl, Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript & Variant Versions, Fully Annotated by Author, with Contemporaneous Correspondence, Account of First Public Reading, Legal Skirmishes, Precursor Texts and Bibliography, Harper & Row Publishers, New York, 1986.

  Gordon, Roxy, Some Things I Did, The Encino Press, Austin, 1971.

  Gray, Francine du Plessix, Lovers and Tyrants, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1976

  Grogan, Emmett, Introduction by Peter Coyote, Ringolevio, A Life Played for Keeps, Citadel Press, Carol Publishing, New York, 1990.

  Herron, Don, The Literary World of San Francisco & its Environs, A Guidebook, (Edited by Nancy J. Peters), City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1985.

  Hine, M. Louise, This Is Eugene, The Culture Center of Oregon, M. Louise Hine, Eugene, OR, 1970.

  Hoyem, Andrew, What If, Poems: 1969-1987, Arion Press, San Francisco, 1987.

  Johnson, Thomas H., ed., The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1960.

  Kerouac, Jack, The Dharma Bums, Penguin Books, 1976.

  Kerouac, Jan, Trainsong, Henry Holt & Company, New York, 1988.

  Knight, Brenda, Women of the Beat Generation, The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of Revolution, Foreword by Anne Waldman, (Afterword by Ann Charters), Conari Press, Berkeley, 1996.

  Koller, James, Like It Was, Blackberry Books, Nobleboro, 1999.

  Krikorian, Leo, The Beatniks and “The Place”: The Golden Age of North Beach in San Francisco (unpublished)

  Kyger, Joanne, All This Every Day, Big Sky, Serendipity Books, Berkeley, 1975.

  Kyger, Joanne, The Japan and India Journals 1960-1964, Tombouctou Books, Bolinas, 1981.

  Lamantia, Philip, Selected Poems 1943-1966, City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1967.

  Law, Lisa, Foreword by Ram Dass, Flashing On The Sixties, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 1987.

  Leary, Timothy, Foreword by William S. Burroughs, Flashbacks, A Personal and Cultural History of an Era, An Autobiography, Jeremy P. Tarcher, Inc., Los Angeles, 1983.

  McClanahan, Ed, My Vita, If You Will, Counterpoint, Washington, D.C., 1998.

  McClure, Michael, Introduction by Robert Creeley, Huge Dreams, San Francisco and Beat Poems, Penguin Books, 1999.

  McClure, Michael, Lighting the Corners, On Art, Nature, and the Visionary, Essays and Interviews, An American Poetry Book, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1993.

  McClure, Michael, Selected Poems, New Directions Books, New York, 1956.

  McDarrah, Fred W., Kerouac & Friends, A Beat Generation Album, William Morrow and Company, New York, 1985.

  McPheron, William, Edward Dorn, Boise State University, Boise, ID, 1988.

  Meltzer, David, Arrow, Selected Poetry 1957-1992, Black Sparrow Press, Santa Rosa, 1994.

  Miles, Barry, Ginsberg, A Biography, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1989.

  Miles, Barry, In the Sixties, Jonathan Cape, London, 2002.

  Miles, Barry, Jack Kerouac, A Portrait, King of the Beats, Virgin, London, 1998.

  Miles, Barry, Paul McCartney, Many Years from Now, With a new epilogue, featuring Paul’s final tribute to Linda, An Owl Book, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1997.

  Miller, Pat, Gatherings, unproduced screenplay.

  O’Brien, Robert, This Is San Francisco, Whittlesey House, New York, 1948.

  Parr, Barry; James, Kerrick and Yamashita, Michael, photo., San Francisco, Fodor’s Travel Publications, Inc., Oakland, CA, 1999.

  Perry, Charles, The Haight-Ashbury, A History, Vintage Books, Random House, New York, 1985.

  Phelan, Deborah, Bolinas: A Tour Through Its History, Bolinas Museum, Bolina, California, 1990.

  Phillips, Lisa, Beat Culture and the New America: 1950-1965, Whitney Museum of American Art, Flammarion, New York, 1995.