An Engaging Eve
Last evening I listened to the most engaging reading I've ever attended. Gatz Hjortsberg read from his new biography of Richard Brautigan to an overflow crowd at Livingston's Blue Slipper theater.
Brautigan lived here before he killed himself in 1984 at the peak of his literary fame. Hjortsberg's biography, a massive book titled Jubilee Hitchhiker, is rife with anecdote, some of it comic.
The biography, which got a starred review from Booklist, will surely become the standard work on the California poet and author.
I escorted an actress who remembered Brautigan well and told me that he was softer and gentler with women than he was with men, so that each gender has a different impression of him.
Brautigan lived here before he killed himself in 1984 at the peak of his literary fame. Hjortsberg's biography, a massive book titled Jubilee Hitchhiker, is rife with anecdote, some of it comic.
The biography, which got a starred review from Booklist, will surely become the standard work on the California poet and author.
I escorted an actress who remembered Brautigan well and told me that he was softer and gentler with women than he was with men, so that each gender has a different impression of him.
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