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Brautigan's Poetry Readings
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Abbott, Keith. "Free Pornography, Media Crush and a Bucket of Clams." Review of Contemporary Fiction 3.3 (Fall 1983): 214-219.

  • Abbott mentions a reading Brautigan gave at the Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco in 1968.

Barth, John. "'All Treees are Oak Trees...': Introductions to Literature." Poets & Writers January/February 2004.

  • Barth mentions a reading Brautigan gave at SUNY - Buffalo at the end of the 60s.

Crawford, John F. "Poets in Transit." Engineering and Science 30.5 (February 1967): 26.

  • Crawford writes about a reading Brautigan gave at Caltech in 1967.

Golden, Jeffrey S. "Richard Brautigan On Saturday Night." The Crimson Review 26 Nov. 1969.

  • Golden writes about a reading Brautigan gave at Harvard's Lowell Lecture Hall in 1969.

Hamlin, Jesse. "Life Met Art Here?." San Francisco Chronicle 13 June 2005.

  • Hamlin mentions a riot at the reading Brautigan gave at the Glide Memorial Church together with Michael McClure in San Francisco in 1968.

Kerouac, Jan. "Trainsong?." New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1988: 154-157.

  • Kerouac mentions a reading Brautigan gave at the Poetry Festival at the Milky Way in Amsterdam.

Link, Terry. "Loading Mercury With a Pitchfork." Rolling Stone 11 June 1970: 26.

  • Link writes about a reading Brautigan gave at the First Unitarian Church in San Francisco on May 7, 1970.

Warsh, Lewis. "Out of Sight." Poetry 115.6 (March 1970): 440-446.

  • Warsh mentions a reading Brautigan gave at St. Mark's In-the-Bowery Church in New York.


BUZZ GALLERY
1711 Buchanan Street
San Francisco

July 3, 1965 Saturday RICHARD BRAUTIGAN reads first half of WATERMELON SUGAR
July 10, 1965 Saturday RICHARD BRAUTIGAN reads second half of WATERMELON SUGAR

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Richard Brautigan also packed the place with his reading of In Watermelon Sugar. I complimented him effusively afterward, even though I thought the book less good and more stylized than Trout Fishing in America, which I had thought dry and too deliberately droll when he read it in a Mission District former church (at which Spicer?, who had been a close adviser, was present, proving that his geographic rules were spotty).

-- Bill Brodecky Moore full text of the article(external link)