{"id":1663,"date":"2010-02-15T22:34:29","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T22:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=1663"},"modified":"2010-02-15T22:34:29","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T22:34:29","slug":"brautigan-on-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/brautigan-on-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Brautigan on writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a great fan of the writing of Richard Brautigan, so I was delighted once to encounter a short reminiscence of Brautigan by that Zelig of the Beats, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pierredelattre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pierre Delattre<\/a>, in his fascinating memoir, <em>Episodes <\/em>(page 54):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The last time I saw him [RB], we were walking past the middle room of his house. There was a table in there with a typewriter on it.\u00a0 \u00a0&#8220;Quiet,&#8221; he whispered, pushing me ahead of him into the kitchen. &#8220;My new novel&#8217;s in there. I kind of stroll in occasionally, write a quick few paragraphs, and get out before the novel knows what I&#8217;m doing.\u00a0 If novels ever find out you&#8217;re writing them, you&#8217;re done for.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Reference:<\/em><br \/>\nPierre Delattre[1993]:\u00a0 <em>Episodes<\/em>. St. Paul, MN, USA:\u00a0 Graywolf Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a great fan of the writing of Richard Brautigan, so I was delighted once to encounter a short reminiscence of Brautigan by that Zelig of the Beats, Pierre Delattre, in his fascinating memoir, Episodes (page 54): The last time I saw him [RB], we were walking past the middle room of his house. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,20,44,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-creativity","category-literature","category-writing","p1","y2010","m02","d15","h22"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}