tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5550868480663112358.post768527285138881063..comments2024-02-25T10:27:34.057-05:00Comments on Media Funhouse: “Playing with gentle glass things”: An appreciation of Richard BrautiganMedia Funhousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15243301374887605164noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5550868480663112358.post-28849990485970157612010-07-09T23:58:09.854-04:002010-07-09T23:58:09.854-04:00You're correct about the location of the Green...You're correct about the location of the Greenwich Village Brentano's. That's where I bought the original hardcover edition of CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES on a visit to NYC before I had moved here, and it was one of my regular stopping in places after I moved here...until it closed. (So many good NYC bookstores are now long-gone.?<br /><br />I liked this post about Brautigan. I never read him, but I was aware of him in the late 60s/early 70s, his image and bookcovers and titles seemed iconically omnipresent in the culture at the time. (I was born in '55, so I was an adolescent when he seemed most visible.)Robert Cookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06951286299515983901noreply@blogger.com