Gatz is Back
My friend William "Gatz" Hjortsberg is back from a grueling 4,000-mile book tour to promote his new biography of Richard Brautigan, Jubilee Hitchhiker. The book runs 880 dense pages, and sells for $42.50, and is largely the bible for Brautigan fans.
Ever since I came to Livingston, I've been hearing wild Richard Brautigan stories, each one more improbable than the last. He was close to Tom McGuane, Jim Harrison, Peter and Becky Fonda, Margot Kidder, Russell Chatham, as well as Hjortsberg, and they all tell great tales about him, many of which have wound up in this vast labor of love, which was twenty years in the making.
The book got too fat for its original publisher, Knopf, and they rejected it, but it was picked up by a regional press, Crossroads. Gatz's reading at City Lights in San Francisco was jammed, and the line of people waiting for a signed copy stretched a block and a half, until the bookstore ran out of books. Off to a fine start, then.
Ever since I came to Livingston, I've been hearing wild Richard Brautigan stories, each one more improbable than the last. He was close to Tom McGuane, Jim Harrison, Peter and Becky Fonda, Margot Kidder, Russell Chatham, as well as Hjortsberg, and they all tell great tales about him, many of which have wound up in this vast labor of love, which was twenty years in the making.
The book got too fat for its original publisher, Knopf, and they rejected it, but it was picked up by a regional press, Crossroads. Gatz's reading at City Lights in San Francisco was jammed, and the line of people waiting for a signed copy stretched a block and a half, until the bookstore ran out of books. Off to a fine start, then.
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