invisible placeholder image
Reviews

Background
Richard Brautigan's poetry, novels, stories, collections, and recordings have all been reviewed by a variety of sources and from a number of different perspectives. This node categorizes these reviews and provides links to further information. There are also a large number of general reviews and critiques concerning Brautigan's work and its place in American literature.
Poetry

Use these links to access reviews of Brautigan's poetry.
These same reviews can be accessed through the individual book pages, or by using the "Reviews—Author Index," below.

The Return of the Rivers The Galilee Hitch-Hiker Lay the Marble Tea The Octopus Frontier All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster Rommel Drives on Deep into Egypt Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork June 30th, June 30th
arrow Back to Top
Novels

Use these links to access reviews of Brautigan's novels.
These same reviews can be accessed through the individual book pages.

A Confederate General from Big Sur Trout Fishing in America In Watermelon Sugar The Abortion The Hawkline Monster Willard and His Bowling Trophies Sombrero Fallout Dreaming of Babylon The Tokyo-Montana Express So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away An Unfortunate Woman
arrow Back to Top
Stories

Use these links to access reviews of Brautigan's collections of stories.
These same reviews can be accessed through the individual book pages, or by using the "Reviews—Author Index," below.

Revenge of the Lawn
arrow Back to Top
Collections

Use these links to access reviews of Brautigan's collected works.
These same reviews can be accessed through the individual book pages.

Trout Fishing in America, The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster, In Watermelon Sugar A Confederate General from Big Sur, Dreaming of Babylon, The Hawkline Monster The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings
arrow Back to Top
Recordings

Use this link to access reviews of Brautigan's record album "Listening to Richard Brautigan."
These same reviews can be accessed through the "Recordings" page.

Listening to Richard Brautigan.
arrow Back to Top
Reviews—Author Index

This index provides an alphabetical listing, by author's last name, of reviews and critiques written about Brautigan's work, as well as general reviews regarding his place in American literature.

Use the links below to access information and resources for each of these reviews.
Select the first letter of the author's last name to begin your search.


A
Ackroyd, Peter. Adams, Phoebe-Lou. Adams, Robert. "Brautigan Was Here." (The Abortion)

Agapow, Paul-Michael. "Review of The Hawkline Monster."

Agosto, Marie-Christine. "Sombrero Fallout: Structure Narrative. (Sombrero Fallout)

Allen, Trevor. "Richard Brautigan." (Trout Fishing in America)

Allen, Trevor."Richard Brautigan." (In Watermelon Sugar)

Ancola, Jim. "Crete Stop for Brautigan." (The Tokyo-Montana Express)

Anders, Smiley. "Tragedy Prevades Brautigan's Books." (An Unfortunate Woman)

Anonymous 1 Abortion. "Brautigan, Richard." (The Abortion)

Anonymous 2 Abortion. "Brautigan, Richard." (The Abortion)

Anonymous 3 Abortion. "Brautigan, Richard." (The Abortion)

Anonymous 4 Abortion. "Paperbacks." (The Abortion)

Anonymous 6 Abortion. "Precious Little: Richard Brautigan; The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966."

Anonmyous 1 Babylon. "Dreaming of Babylon."

Anonymous 2 Babylon. "Brautigan, Richard." (Dreaming of Babylon)

Anonymous 3 Babylon. "Brautigan, Richard." (Dreaming of Babylon)

Anonymous 1 Collections. "Trout Fishing in America, The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster, In Watermelon Sugar."

Anonymous Edna 1. "Promises, Promises." (The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings)

Anonymous Express 1. "Brautigan, Richard." (The Tokyo-Montana Express)

Anonymous Express 2. "The Tokyo-Montana Express."

Anonymous General 1. "Brautigan, Richard." (A Confederate General from Big Sur)

Anonymous General 2. "A Confederate General from Big Sur."

Anonymous Hawkline 1. "Brautigan, Richard." (The Hawkline Monster)

Anonymous Hawkline 2. "Brautigan, Richard." (The Hawkline Monster)

Anonymous Hawkline 3. "Books." (The Hawkline Monster)

Anoymous Hawkline 4. Anatomy of Wonder. A Critical Guide to Science Fiction Second Edition (The Hawkline Monster)

Anoymous Hawkline 5. Anatomy of Wonder. A Critical Guide to Science Fiction Third Edition (The Hawkline Monster)

Anonymous Lawn 1. "Brautigan, Richard." (Revenge of the Lawn)

Anonymous Lawn 2. "Brautigan, Richard." (Revenge of the Lawn)

Anonymous Lawn 3. "Novel in Brief." (Revenge of the Lawn)

Anonymous Lawn 4. "Revenge of the Lawn." (Revenge of the Lawn)

Anonymous. Anonymous Sombrero 1. "Paperbacks: New and Noteworthy." (Sombrero Fallout)

Anonymous Sombrero 2. "Brautigan, Richard." (Sombrero Fallout)

Anonymous Sombrero 3. "Brautigan, Richard." (Sombrero Fallout)

Anonymous Sombrero 4. "Brautigan, Richard." (Sombrero Fallout)

Anonymous Trout. "Trout Fishing in America."

Anonymous Willard 1. "Willard and His Bowling Trophies."

Anonymous Willard 2. "Paperbacks: New and Noteworthy." (Willard and His Bowling Trophies)

Anonymous Willard 3. "Briefly Noted." (Willard and His Bowling Trophies)

Anonymous Willard 4. "Brautigan, Richard." (Willard and His Bowling Trophies)

Anonymous Willard 5. "Brautigan, Richard." (Willard and His Bowling Trophies)

Anonymous Willard 6. "Books." (Willard and His Bowling Trophies)

Anonymous Wind 1. "So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away."

Anonymous Wind 2. "So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away."

Anonymous Wind 3. "Paperbacks: New & Noteworthy." (So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away)

Anonymous Wind 4. "Brautigan, Richard." (So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away)

Anonymous Woman 1. "Fishing for Truth: Brautigan's Only Child Confronts the Author's Death by Writing about His Life." (An Unfortunate Woman)

Anonymous Woman 2. "An Unfortunate Woman: A Journey."

Atchity, Kenneth. "A Refrain along Brautigan's Oddpath." (So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away)


B
Baker, Roger. "Fiction." (The Abortion)

Bales,Kent. "Fishing the Ambivalence, or, a Reading of 'Trout Fishing in America'."

Bannon, Barbara A. Barkham, John. "Beats Are Becoming Intelligible Again?" (A Confederate General from Big Sur)

Barnes, Julian. "No Picnic." (Willard and His Bowling Trophies)

Barnes, Julyan. "Kidding." (The Hawkline Monster)

Barnett, Richard J., and Robert Manning. "Books Briefly." (The Hawkline Monster)

Beaver, Harold. "Dead Pan Alley." (Sombrero Fallout)

Bedell, Thomas D. "Brautigan, Richard." (Willard and His Bowling Trophies)

Bednarczyk, A. "Brautigan, Richard." (Sombrero Fallout)

Belinski, P. X. "Belinski on Brautigan." (In Watermelon Sugar)

Bell, Robert Edward. "The Endless Walk Of Richard Brautigan." (An Unfortunate Woman)

Benoit, Claude. "El Regresso del Detective Privado [The Return of the Private Detective]." (Dreaming of Babylon)

Berry, John D. "Taking a Ride with Richard Brautigan." (The Tokyo-Montana Express)

Bienen, Leigh Buchanan. "New American Fiction." (A Confederate General from Big Sur)

Blackburn, Sara. "American Folk Hero." (Revenge of the Lawn)

Blakely, Carolyn. "Narrative Technique in Brautigan's In Watermelon Sugar."

Blakeston, Oswell. "Richard Brautigan." (The Abortion)

Bloodworth, W. "Literary Extensions of the Formula Western." (The Abortion)

Blumberg, Myrna. "Fiction." (Willard and His Bowling Trophies)

Bokinsky, Caroline J. Bourgea, Yosha. "Gone Fishing: Writer Ianthe Brautigan Comes to Terms with Her Famous Father's Legacy." (An Unfortunate Woman)

Bowman, David. "Literary Leftovers: Does even the most devoted fan really want to scrape the bottom of Dashiell Hammett's desk drawer?" (The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings)

Bradfield, Scott. "California: It's A Jungle Out There; Books." (An Unfortunate Woman)

Brein, Alan. "The Voice of Vile Bodies." (Dreaming of Babylon)

Britt, Ryan. "Genre in the Mainstream: Richard Brautigan's In Watermelon Sugar. (In Watermelon Sugar)

Brooks, Jeremy. Brosnahan, John. Brown, F. J. "Richard Brautigan." (A Confederate General from Big Sur)

Brownjohn, Alan. "Absorbing Chaos" (The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster)

Broyard, Anatole. "Weeds and Four-Leaf Clovers." (Revenge of the Lawn)

Busani, Marina. "Altre Seduzioni: Trout Fishing in America di Richard Brautigan."

Butwin, Joseph. "The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966."


C
Cabau, Jacques. "Western dans un Château Hanté." (The Hawkline Monster)

Cabibbo, Paola. "The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966 di Richard Brautigan, Ovuero l'Aborto dell'Eroe." (The Abortion)

Cadogan, Lucy. "New from Africa." (A Confederate General from Big Sur)

Campbell, Patty. "The Young Adult Perplex: A Review of Deadeye Dick and So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away."

Carl, John. "Best Brautigan: Tokyo-Montana Express Charms." (The Tokyo-Montana Express)

Carlson, Michael. "An American Original Way Out of Style: Michael Carlson on the Literary Legacy of a Psychedelic Hero." (An Unfortunate Woman)

Carpenter, Don. "A Book for Losers." (Trout Fishing in America)

Carpenter, Don. "Brautigan Writing at His Peak." (The Tokyo-Montana Express)

Carr, Adam. "Mexican Hats Miss Their Mark." (Sombrero Fallout)

Cartano, Tony. "Heritier de Melville." (Willard and His Bowling Trophies)

Carver, Raymond. "Brautigan Serves Werewolf Berries and Cat Cantaloupe." (The Tokyo-Montana Express)

Casey, Charles. "A Zany, Three-Stage Plot Under One Sombrero." (Sombrero Fallout)

Cawelti, John G. "Gumshoeing It." (Dreaming of Babylon)

Chénetier, Marc. "Les Images dans Trout Fishing in America de Richard Brautigan." (Trout Fishing in America)

Cheval, Christophe. "Richard Brautigan: Un Privé à Babylone." (Dreaming of Babylon)

Christgau, Robert. "A Frigid Hat, A Dead Architect and Two Smart Dicks: Sombrero Fallout: A Japanese Novel." (Sombrero Fallout)

Clark, Jeff. "Brautigan, Richard." (The Tokyo-Montana Express)

Clark, William Bedford. "Abortion and the Missing Moral Center: Two Case Histories from the Post-Modern Novel." (The Abortion)

Clay, Carolyn. "Stetson Stunts." (Sombrero Fallout)

Clayton, John. "Richard Brautigan: The Politics of Woodstock." (Trout Fishing in America)

Cleary, Michael. "Richard Brautigan's Gold Nib: Artistic Independence in 'Trout Fishing in America'."

Coats, Reed. "Brautigan, Richard." (The Abortion)

Cohen, Joseph. "Fulfillment Elusive, Brautigan Reminds Us." (So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away)

Cole, William. "Prides and Prejudices." (Willard and His Bowling Trophies)

Coleman, John. Cook, Bruce. "'A Gothic Western,' He Calls It, and He's Right." (The Hawkline Monster)

Cooley, John. "The Garden in the Machine: Three Postmodern Pastorals." (Trout Fishing in America)

Copps, Dale G. "Books in Brief." (Willard and His Bowling Trophies)

Crouch, Jeff. "Discontinuity in Richard Brautigan's The Tokyo-Montana Express." (The Tokyo-Montana Express)

Cunningham, Valentine. "Whiskey in the Works." (The Hawkline Monster)

Cüpper, Mélanie. "Less Is More or Less: Richard Brautigan: Willard and His Bowling Trophies—A Perverse Mystery, Sombrero Fallout—A Japanese Novel."
D
Daily, Robert. "The Tokyo-Montana Express."

Daum, Timothy. Davenport, Guy. "C'est Magnifique mais Ce N'est pas Daguerre." (Collection: Trout Fishing, Pill, In Watermelon Sugar)

Davis, L. J. "Willard and His Bowling Trophies: A Perverse Mystery by Richard Brautigan."

Davis, Rick. "Dreaming of Babylon."

DeMarinis, Rick. "Brautigan's Stylish Touch Turns a Grim Story into a Fairy Tale." (So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away)

Desruisseaux, Paul. "Brautigan's Mad Body-Snatcher." (Dreaming of Babylon)

Dietrich, Richard F. "Brautigan's 'Homage to the San Francisco YMCA': A Modern Fairy Tale." (Revenge of the Lawn)

Disch, Thomas M. "Dumber Than Dumb." (Dreaming of Babylon)

Dorsi, Latissimus [sic]. "Abortion Everywhere." (The Abortion)

Downing, Pamela. Duberstein, Larry. "Revenge of the Lawn: Stories, 1962-1970."

Duffy, Dennis. "A Daughter's Fitting Rescue." (An Unfortunate Woman)

Durrant, Digby. "So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away."


E
Edwards, Thomas R. "Books in Brief: Five Novels." (Sombrero Fallout)

[Erdosi, Elizabeth?]. "Revenge of the Lawn: Stories, 1962-1970."


F
Fallowell, Duncan. "Trips." (Willard and His Bowling Trophies

Farrell, J.G. "Brautigan Briefs." (Revenge of the Lawn)

Farrell, J. G. Feld, Michael. "A Double with Christina." (Collection: Trout Fishing, Pill, In Watermelon Sugar)

Fiene, Donald M. "Trout Fishing in America."

Feinstein, Elaine. "Fiction." (Dreaming of Babylon)

Flaherty, Joe. "The Sam Spade Caper." (Dreaming of Babylon)

Fletcher, Connie. Foster, Jeffrey M. "Richard Brautigan's Utopia of Detachment." (In Watermelon Sugar)

Frank, Sheldon. "Brautigan." (Willard and His Bowling Trophies)

Fraser, Christopher. "The Brautigan Library." (An Unfortunate Woman)

Fremont-Smith, Eliot. "Making Book on a Sentimental Season." (Willard and His Bowling Trophies)

Frumkin, Gene. "A Step toward Perception" (Lay the Marble Tea)

Furbank, P. N.
G
Galloway, David. "Richard Brautigan, 'The World War I Los Angeles Airplane.'" (Revenge of the Lawn)

Gannon, Edward. "Brautigan, Richard." (Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork)

Gard, Andrew. "Drama of Doomed Author Redeems Pedestrian Writing." (An Unfortunate Woman)

Gilroy, Harry. "End Papers." (A Confederate General from Big Sur)

Gillespie, Bruce R. Glendinning, Victoria. "Enter, Pursued by a Bear." (Sombrero Fallout)

Gold, Herbert. "A Book for Losers." (Trout Fishing in America)

Gold, Arthur. "Fun in Section Eight." (A Confederate General from Big Sur)

Gordon, Andrew. "Richard Brautigan's Parody of Arthur Miller." (Willard and His Bowling Trophies)

Gougeon, Leonard. "Brautigan, Richard." (Willard and His Bowling Trophies)

Greenwell, Bill. "Lobster Eating." (The Tokyo-Montana Express)

Grimaud, Isabelle. "Stranger than Paradise." (Dreaming of Babylon)

Grimes, Larry E. "Stepsons of Sam: Re-Visions of the Hard-Boiled Detective Formula in Recent American Fiction." (Dreaming of Babylon)

Grove, Lee. "An Alas and Alack for this Babylon." (Dreaming of Babylon)

Grubber, John. "Meanwhile—Back in the Jar." (The Hawkline Monster)


H
Hackenberry, Charles. Hall, Simon. "Ghost Laid to Rest." (An Unfortunate Woman)

Halpern, Sue M. "A Pox on Dullness." (The Tokyo-Montana Express)

Hamlin, Andrew. "Two New Books Explore the Enigma of Brautigan." (An Unfortunate Woman)

Haroldson, Thomas. "Rommel Limps On Deep into Nowhere" (Rommel Drives On Deep into Egypt)

Harper, Cathy. "Brautigan, Richard." (The Tokyo-Montana Express)

Harrington, Michael. "'An Unfortunate Woman: A Journey'; 'You Can't Catch Death: A Daughter's Memoir'."

Hayden, Brad. "Echoes of 'Walden' in 'Trout Fishing in America'."

Hearron, Thomas. "Escape through Imagination in 'Trout Fishing in America'."

Hedborn, Mark. "Lacan and Postmodernism in Brautigan's Dreaming of Babylon."

Hendin, Josephine. "A Taste for Cool. Revenge of the Lawn."

Hepburn, Neil. "Spare and Strange." (Willard and His Bowling Trophies)

Hernlund, Patricia. "Author's Intent: In Watermelon Sugar."

Hicks, Jack. "Sweet Wine in Place of Life: The Revenge of the Lawn."

Hill, Douglas. "The Tokyo-Montana Express." (The Tokyo-Montana Express)

Hill, Susan. "Americas." (The Abortion)

Hillard, Tom."The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings."

Hirschman, Jack. "Five Poets" (All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace)

Hjortsberg, William. "Poetic Injustice? Maybe Richard Brautigan's early writings did not deserve to see the light of day." (The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings)

Hoffert, Barbara. Hogan, William. "Rebels in the War with Life." (A Confederate General from Big Sur)

Hollinger, Veronica. "Cybernetic Deconstructions: Cyberpunk and Postmodernism." (In Watermelon Sugar)

Hope, Mary. "Dreaming of Babylon."

Hornick, Lita. "Kulchur: Memoir." (Revenge of the Lawn)

Horvath, Brooke Kenton. "Wrapped in a Winter Rug: Richard Brautigan Looks at Common Responses to Death." (Revenge of the Lawn)

Horwitz, Carey A. "Brautigan, Richard" (Rommel Drives On Deep into Egypt)

Howard, Bert. "Brautigan Babylon Kills Private-Eye Mystique." (Dreaming of Babylon)

Howard, Phillip. "Fiction." (Sombrero Fallout)

Hughes, Catherine. "The Abortion."

Hunter, Timothy A. "Brautigan's Latest: 'Gentle, Brief, Slippery'." (So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away)


I
Iftekharuddin, Farhat. "The New Aesthetics in Brautigan's Revenge of the Lawn: Stories 1962-1970."

Ives, George L. "Brautigan, Richard." (So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away)


J
Jackson, Mick. Jones, Lewis. "Amis of Industry." (The Tokyo-Montana Express)


K
Kane, Jean. "Naive Tone Perfect for Brautigan Novel." (So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away)

Kaye, Sheldon. "Brautigan, Richard, The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western."

Keele, A. F. "Ethics in Embryo-Abortion and the Problem of Morality in Post-War German Literature." (The Abortion)

Kenny, Kevin. "Brautigan, Richard." (So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away)

Killinger, J. R. "Some Novels for the Pastor's Study." (A Confederate General from Big Sur)

Kimball, George. "Books & People." (The Abortion)

Kincheloe, Henderson. "The Hawkline Monster."

Kline, Betsy. Knowles, Carrie J. "Brautigan, Richard." (June 30th, June 30th)

Kolin, Phillip C. "Food for Thought in Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America."

Koloze, Jeff. "Richard Brautigan’s The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966 (1971)."

Krim, Seymour. "Brautigan's Mythical Trip into Bogart Country." (Dreaming of Babylon)

Kroll, Stephen. "Very Natural and No Childbirth." (The Abortion)

Kušnír, Jaroslav.
L
Lahr, Anthea. "Bed and Books." (The Abortion)

Lally, Michael. "Brautigan: Caught in Success?" (Rommel Drives On Deep into Egypt)

Langlois, Jim. Lask, Thomas. "Move Over, Mr. Tolstoy." (The Abortion)

Le Vot, André. "Libre Du Mois—Willard et Ses Trophées de Bowling." (Willard and His Bowling Trophies)

Leavitt, Harvey. "The Regained Paradise of Brautigan's In Watermelon Sugar."

Lee, Hermione. "Curtains." (Dreaming of Babylon)

Lee, L. L. "The Hawkline Monster."

Lehoczky, Etelka. "Last Words, Sort Of." (An Unfortunate Woman)

Lemontt, Bobbie Burch. "Dreaming of Babylon."

Levin, Martin. "A Reader's Report." (A Confederate General from Big Sur)

Lewis, Judith. "Before the Trout: Richard Brautigan's Early Years." (The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings)

Lhamon, W. T. "Break and Enter to Breakaway: Scotching Modernism in the Social Novel of the American Sixties." (Trout Fishing in America)

Lingeman, Richard R. "Getting a Fix on Fall Books." (Sombrero Fallout)

Link Terry. "Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork."

Lippman, Amy. "The New Brautigan: A Silly Pretension." (So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away)

Lock, Beth. "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace"

Locklin, Gerald.

Locklin, Gerald and Charles Stetler. "Some Observations on A Confederate General from Big Sur."

Lottman, Eileen. "Revenge of the Lawn: Stories, 1962-1970."


M
Maillard, Keith. "Trout Fishing in America, The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster, In Watermelon Sugar."

Major, Clarence. "Open Letters." (The Abortion)

Marshall, John. Martin [sic]. "A Confederate General From Big Sur."

Martin, Richard A. "Naïve Melodies: A Posthumous Book Unearths the Early Works of Richard Brautigan." (The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings)

Martins, Heitor. "Pescando Trutas na América com Richard Brautigan." (Trout Fishing in America)

Mason, Michael. McCaffrey, Larry. "Keeping Track of Life." (The Tokyo-Montana Express)

McEnroe, Colin. "Brain Candy for Literary Sweet Tooth." (The Tokyo-Montana Express)

McGuane, Thomas. "An Optimist vis-a-vis the Present." (Collection: Trout Fishing, Pill, In Watermelon Sugar)

McHale, Brian. Postmodernist Fiction.

McLellan, Joseph. "Paperbacks." (Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork)

Mellard, James M. "Brautigan's 'Trout Fishing in America'."

Mellors, John. "Trick or Treat?" (The Tokyo-Montana Express)

Miclot, James Murray. "Depolitization from Within: Not Taking a Fall with Richard Brautigan." (Dreaming of Babylon)

Milazzo, Lee. "Journey into the Fantastic." (The Tokyo-Montana Express)

Mills, Joseph. Reading Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America

Minudri, Regina U. "Brautigan, Richard." (Revenge of the Lawn)

Mitgang, Herbert. "Home on the Range." (The Tokyo-Montana Express)

Montgomery, John. "A Nature Book for Hippies." (Trout Fishing in America)

Montrose, David. "Death of the Dream." (So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away)

Morley, Patricia. "It May Not Be Literature But It's Still Entertaining." (So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away)

Morris, Desmond. "Trout Fishing in America, The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster, In Watermelon Sugar."

Morrow, Patrick D. "Willard and His Bowling Trophies."

Mount, Ferdinand. "The Novel of the Narcissus." (Sombrero Fallout)

Muggeridge, Malcolm. "Books." (A Confederate General from Big Sur)

Myerson, Jonathon. "So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away."


N
Nambisan, Vijay. "Pines and Cybernetics" (All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace)

Neely, Mildred Sola. "Brautigan's Next Novel Slated for Fall by S & S." (Willard and His Bowling Trophies)

Nilsen, Don L.F., and Allen Pace Nilsen. Nordell, Roderick. "American Gothic Comes of Age." (The Hawkline Monster)

Norman, Albert H. "Energy and Whimsy." (Collection: Trout Fishing, Pill, In Watermelon Sugar)

Norman, Gurney and Ed McClanahan. "Revenge of the Lawn."

Nye, Robert. "A Confederate General from Big Sur."


O
O'Connell, Shaun. "American Fiction, 1975: Celebration in Wonderland." (Willard and His Bowling Trophies)

O'Hara, J. D. "Happier (but Not Holier) than Thou." (Collection: Trout Fishing, Pill, In Watermelon Sugar)

Olderman, Raymond M. "American Fiction 1974-1976: People Who Fell To Earth." (The Hawkline Monster)

Ottenberg, Eve. "Some Fun, Some Gloom." (So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away)


P
Parra, Ernesto. "Cocinas de Placer [Kitchens of Pleasure]." (Willard and His Bowling Trophies)

Parumba, Arthur. "Richard Brautigan's 3 & 1 & 3 in 1 Books." (Collection: Trout Fishing, Pill, In Watermelon Sugar)

Peterson, Clarence. "More Than Meets the Eye." (The Abortion)

Pétillion, Pierre Yves. Petticoffer, Dennis. Pfaff, William. "So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away."

Phillips, Al. "Brautigan, Richard." (The Abortion)

Pintarich, Paul. "Brautigan's Talents Lost in Gimmickry." (The Tokyo-Montana Express)

Pohl, R. D. "Brautigan's Last Book, Daughter's Memoir Cast Light on a Dark Subject." (An Unfortunate Woman)

Ponicsan, Darryl. "Brautigan Engineers a Train of Uncoupled Empty Thoughts." (The Tokyo-Montana Express)

Porter, Peter. "Dazzling Landscapes" (The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster)

Prescott, Peter S. "Monster in the Cellar." (The Hawkline Monster)

Pritchard, William H.
Q
Quintana, Juan. "Monstruo de Hawkline: Un Western Gotico" (The Hawkline Monster)


R
Rahv, Phillip. "New American Fiction." (A Confederate General from Big Sur)

Randall, Dudley. "A Review of The Confederate General from Big Sur."

Reynolds, Susan Salter. "Discoveries: An Unfortunate Woman." (An Unfortunate Woman)

Rimer, Thomas. "A Ride on Brautigan's Very Remarkable Train." (The Tokyo-Montana Express)

Ring, Kevin. Ritterman, Pamela. "Trout Fishing in America."

Roddan, Brooks. "Come Home, Richard Brautigan." (Rommel Drives On Deep into Egypt)

Rogers, Michael. Rohrberger, Mary. "In Watermelon Sugar."

Rohrberger, Mary and Peggy C. Gardner. "Multicolored Loin Cloths, Glass, Trinkets of Words: Surrealism in In Watermelon Sugar."

Rollyson, Carl E., Jr. "The Confederate General from Big Sur."

Ronald, Ann. "So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away."

Rose, Kate. "The Grand Penny Tour: Brautigan's 'Rommel Drives On Deep into Egypt'."

Russell, Lawrence. "Richard Brautigan: Child Man of the Atomic Age: A Review of Willard and His Bowling Trophies."


S
Sage, Lorna. Sale, Roger. "Fooling Around, and Serious Business." (The Hawkline Monster)

Sampson, Sally. "Hang-Ups." (The Abortion)

Sarcandzieva, Rada. Precistvastijat Smjah Na Ricard Brotigan. Cudovisteto Hoklan; Edno Sombrero Pada Ot Nebeto. [The Purifying Light of Richard Brautigan in Monster and Sombrero.] Schuessler, Jennifer. The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings."

Schneck, Stephen. "Trout Fishing in America."

Schönfelder, Karl-Heinz. "Richard Brautigan: Forellenfischen in Amerika." (Trout Fishing in America)

Scharnhorst, Gary. "Brautigan Produces a Yawner." (So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away)

Schroeder, Michael L. "Rhetorical Depth or Psychological Aberration: The Strange Case of Richard Brautigan." (In Watermelon Sugar)

Schuster, Arian. "Brautigan, Richard." (June 30th, June 30th)

Seaman, Donna. Seib, Kenneth. "Trout Fishing in America: Brautigan's Funky Fishing Yarn."

Shapiro, Laura. "Atwood, Brautigan, and Reunions." (Sombrero Fallout)

Shatkin, Allan I. "Brautigan, Richard." (Collection: Trout Fishing, Pill, In Watermelon Sugar)

Sheppard, R. Z. "Easy Writer." (Revenge of the Lawn)

Shrapnel, Norman. "Peasant Power."

Siegel, Mark. "Trout Fishing in America."

Sinclair, Andrew. "Fiction." (The Tokyo-Montana Express)

Skau, Michael. "American Ethos: Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America."

Skorupa, Joseph. "Brautigan, Richard." (The Tokyo-Montana Express)

Skow, John. "Cookie Baking in America." (The Abortion)

Slethaug, Gordon E. "The Hawkline Monster: Brautigan's 'Buffoon Mutation'."

Smith, Mason. "Pink and Fading, in Watermelon Ink." (The Abortion)

Sonny [sic]. "Books." (The Abortion)

Sorrentino, Gilbert. "Ten Pamphlets" (The Galilee Hitch-Hiker)

Spector, Robert D. "Betwixt Tradition and Innovation." (Rommel Drives On Deep into Egypt)

Sprug, Joseph W. "Professionally Speaking." (The Abortion)

Steinberg, Sybil S. "The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings."

Steiner, George. "Briefly Noted." (Dreaming of Babylon)

Stewart, Joan Hinde. "Sombrero Fallout, A Japanese Novel."

Story, Jack Trevor. "Cult Express." (The Tokyo-Montana Express)

Strell, Lois A. "Brautigan, Richard." (So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away)

Strothman, Janet. "Brautigan, Richard." (Revenge of the Lawn)

Stuewe, Paul. Stull, William L. "Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America: Notes of a Native Son."

Stuttaford, Genevieve. "Brautigan, Richard." (June 30th, June 30th)

Sullivan, James. "A Gift From Brautigan: San Francisco Writer's Earliest Poems and Stories Surface in Posthumous Collection." (The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings)

Swigart, Rob. "Still Life with Woodpecker, The Tokyo-Montana Express." (The Tokyo-Montana Express)


T
Tani, Stefano. "L'Esperimento del Professor Hawkline: Case Stregate e Sogno Americano da Brown a Brautigan." (The Hawkline Monster)

Tannenbaum, Earl. "Brautigan, Richard." (A Confederate General from Big Sur)

Tanner, Tony. Taylor, David M. Thomson, George H. "Objective Reporting as a Technique in the Experimental Novel: A Note on Brautigan and Robbe-Grillet." (In Watermelon Sugar)

Thomson, Robert. "Brautigan's Express Trip Past 130 Stops." (The Tokyo-Montana Express)

Thorpe, Peter. "Brautigan Arrives at Land of Giants." (The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings)

Thwaite, Anthony. Traub, Nancy. "Brautigan Writes It Down before It Becomes American Dust." (So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away)

Treglown, Jeremy. "Kithflicks." (Sombrero Fallout)

Triance, Tavis Eachan. "Richard Brautigan: A Poetics of Alienation." (Willard and His Bowling Trophies)

Turner, William O. "An Acid-Rock Western." (The Hawkline Monster)


U
Uellenberg, Klaus. "Tradition und Postmoderne in Richard Brautigan's Revenge of the Lawn—Stories."

Uschuk, J. "St. Martin's Offers Two Perspectives On The Late Richard Brautigan: His and Hers." (An Unfortunate Woman)


V
Van Vactor, Anita. "Hip Elect." (A Confederate General from Big Sur)

Vanderwerken, David L. "Trout Fishing in America and the American Tradition."

Veale, Scott. "New & Noteworthy Paperbacks: An Unfortunate Woman." (An Unfortunate Woman)

Villar, Raso M. "The Myth as Consumption: Richard Brautigan." (In Watermelon Sugar)


W
Waddington, Chris. "Brautigan Again; 'When I'm rich and famous, Edna, this will be your social security.'" (The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings)

Wagner, Joe. "So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away."

Walters, Richard. "Trout Fishing in America, The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar."

Warren, Eric. "Brautigan's Latest Novel." (So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away

Warsh, Lewis. Waugh, Aubern. Way, Brian T. W. "Brautigan's Unfortunate Woman: Of the Journey and Grace." (An Unfortunate Woman)

Webb, W. L. "From the Spring Lists." (Revenge of the Lawn)

Weinberger, Andy. "The Tokyo-Montana Express."

Welch, Lew. "Brautigan's Moth Balanced on an Apple." (In Watermelon Sugar)

West, Celeste. "These Are Book Reviews." (The Abortion)

Whissen, Thomas Reed. "Trout Fishing in America."

White, Lawrence La Riviere. "Jack Spicer's Best Seller, Trout Fishing in America."

Whittemore, Reed. "Revenge of the Lawn: Stories, 1962-1970."

Wiggen, Maurice. "Aspects of Americans." (The Abortion)

Williams, Dan. "A World Within: Solipsism and Richard Brautigan's In Watermelon Sugar."

Williams, Jonathan. "'Anyway, All I Ever Wanted to be was a Poet.' Said Leon Uris, with a Smile, as We Strode Together into the Vomitorium..." (Rommel Drives On Deep into Egypt)

Willis, Lonnie L. "Brautigan's 'The Hawkline Monster': As Big As the Ritz."

Winks, Robin W. "Robin W. Winks on Mysteries." (Dreaming of Babylon)

Witosky, Diane. "Riding the Rails with Brautigan." (The Tokyo-Montana Express)

Wordsworth, Christopher.
Y
Yardley, Jonathan. "Still Loving." (The Abortion)

Yohalem, John. "Cute Brautigan: The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western."

Yourgrau, Barry. "An Uneasy Middle-Aged Soul." (The Tokyo-Montana Express)
arrow Back to Top