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Chapman, Christine. "A Library for World's Nobodies." International Herald Tribune 25 Sept. 1992.

Garchik, Leah. "Unpublished Works Welcome At New Library?." The San Francisco Chronicle 3 May 1990: A10.

Garner, Dwight. "TBR: Inside the List(external link)" The New York Times Book Review 7 Jan 7, 2007.

Hartston, William. "Home For Unpublished Books: William Hartston visits the Brautigan - an unusual library in Burlington, Vermont." The Independent 22 Dec 1993.

Ingrassia, Lawrence. "A Fictional Library Becomes a Real Place With Unreal Fiction: Much is Novel at Brautigan's, Where the Unpublished Go to Find Immortality." The Wall Street Journal 28 May 1991.

Jedeikin, Jenny and Robert Love. "Brautigan Library?." Rolling Stone 7 February 1991: 13.

Lockwood, Todd. "Todd Lockwood and the Brautigan Library." The 23 [Brautigan Library Newsletter] November 1980.

Ratner, Elaine. "The Effect of Brautigan?." California Living 14 May 1972: 26-27.

O'Kelly, Kevin. "Unusual Library May Get New Chapter?." The Boston Globe 27 Sept 2004.

van Bakel, Rogier. "Paperback Proving Grounds." Wired 3(9) 1995.

News from the Fletcher Free Library. "Brautigan Library Going Home to San Fransisco."

A visit to the Brautigan Library(external link)

The Brautigan Virtual Library(external link)



The Library of Unwritten Books

The Library of Unwritten Books(external link) is a collection of possible books. Short interviews are recorded with people about a book they dream of writing or making. Limited edition mini books are published from transcripts of the interviews, which are made available to readers at exhibitions and special events. Touring book-boxes also display the books at everyday venues such as cafés, pubs, libraries and launderettes.

The concept was inspired by a fictional book repository featured in The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966 by cult American writer, Richard Brautigan. (...) Inspired by the non-selective ethos of the Brautigan library, Caroline Jupp and Sam Brown founded Library of Unwritten Books in 2002. The books are collected through random encounters in shopping centres, parks, and city streets, and by invitations to visit literature festivals, public libraries and community centres.

Youngs, Ian. The art of not writing books(external link) BBC News Monday, 2 August, 2004.

Library features books that have yet to be written(external link) CBC Arts 03 Aug 2004

From the Alien Online Blog(external link):

Librarians Sam Brown and Caroline Jupp are collecting story ideas from random strangers for an art project they call 'The Library of Unwritten Books', which, unless my memory fails me (an entirely plausible scenario) was a concept first put forward in Neil Gaiman's magnum opus, The Sandman(external link).

Mind you, Gaiman's version was much more interesting: the tomes on the shelves of the Dream-lord Morpheus' Library of the Unwritten were all volumes that only ever existed in the dreams of their authors, rather than just ideas that people have had but don't have time to develop into actual novels.