Todos os Santos Bay
Todos os Santos Bay [Port.,=all-saints bay], inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, 25 mi (40 km) long and 20 mi (32 km) wide, E Bahia, Brazil. It receives the Paraguaçu River. Brazil's first oil field (1939) is located N of Salvador, the bay's chief city. Itaparica, a large island at the mouth of the bay, has saltworks and oil fields. The fertile Reconcavo lowland surrounds the bay; subsistence crops, sugarcane, cotton, and tobacco are raised there. Todos os Santos Bay was discovered in 1501 by Amerigo Vespucci.
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Remembering the troubled man behind Richard Brautigan craze
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 9/13/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Remembering the troubled man behind Richard Brautigan craze By MICHAEL HARRINGTON...Unfortunate Woman: A Journey. By Richard Brautigan. St. Martin's Press. 110...Press. 209 pages. $21.95. Richard Brautigan now seems as quaint as the thrift...
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 "Sentinel, The (Stoke-on-Trent UK)")
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Book review: Richard brautigan's dreaming of babylon
Newspaper article from: Sentinel, The (Stoke-on-Trent UK); 4/11/2009; 335 words
; ...s Alsager campus. Here, the 53-year-old degree programme leader explains why he loves Richard Brautigan's Dreaming of Babylon. RICHARD Brautigan was a Californian poet who fitted onto the end of the Beat Generation and became a literary...
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Trip of a lifetime with the ghost of a dead father Richard Brautigan's books - once described as `Mark Twain on acid' - were cult classics for the hippie generation. Then in the Eighties, overwhelmed by alcohol abuse and disillusionment, he put a gun to his head and shot himself. Now his daughter has written a memoir of the man who haunts her life
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 7/16/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...elusive, nomadic father. He was Richard Brautigan, a literary star of the Sixties...taken away from her. Who was Richard Brautigan, this writer at once so playful...want to live." The strands of Richard Brautigan's life are all there - the...
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Revenge of the Lawn By Richard Brautigan
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 6/19/2009; ; 660 words
; ...attempts have been made to define Richard Brautigan's work - Beat, scat, Zen...be a perfect age to discover Brautigan. The vim and originality of...to me then appeals to me now. Brautigan is a folk- artist, a master...
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Brautigan again; "When I'm rich and famous, Edna, this will be your social security.".(ENTERTAINMENT)(Review) (book review)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 9/19/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Undiscovered Writings . - By: Richard Brautigan. - Publisher: Mariner Books...tastemakers always viewed the late Richard Brautigan with skepticism - too popular...at once./ . Go there with Richard Brautigan and you might not want to return...
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 "Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)")
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BRAUTIGAN ARRIVES AT LAND OF GIANTS.(Books)(Review)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 9/19/1999; 700+ words
; Byline: Peter Thorpe Richard Brautigan: The Edna Webster Collection...of the Beat Generation,'' Richard Brautigan was born in 1935 and committed...day of November, 1955, I, Richard Brautigan, give all my writings to Edna...
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Brautigan's Psychomachia.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Mosaic (Winnipeg); 3/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; Critics have interpreted Brautigan as experimentalist, hippie/ beat...unusual kind of reader response. Richard Brautigan's novels rouse readerly uneasiness...Add to that the strangeness: Brautigan offers no authorial guidance on...
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 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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A SENSIBLE DAUGHTER BRAUTIGAN'S MEMOIR PAINTED WITH LOVE, WARTS.(BOOKS)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 6/18/2000; 700+ words
; ...wanderings and sidewalk sitting, Richard Brautigan, his smug, tickled expression...the photographs on his books. Brautigan's hold on certain imaginations...Europe, Turkey and China. ``Brautigan goes out again as soon as he...
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NEW ON THE BOOKSHELVES FOR BRAUTIGAN FANS.(What's Happening)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); 5/12/2000; ; 700+ words
; Richard Brautigan was the writer who captured the tangerine...3 million copies in print). But Brautigan's life was bedeviled by alcoholism...time as the welcome publication of Richard Brautigan's last work, ``An Unfortunate...
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Seymour Lawrence, 67; publisher of Vonnegut, Brautigan works
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 1/7/1994; ; 606 words
; ...published books from 1988 until his death. During his 40-year career, his list of authors included Richard Yates, Thomas Berger, Richard Brautigan and O'Brien. He leaves a daughter, Macy Lawrence Ratliff of Seattle, a son, Nicholas of Cambridge...
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Richard Brautigan
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Richard Brautigan , 1935-84, American novelist and...The Tokyo-Montana Express (1980). Brautigan also wrote short stories, many collected...Mercury with a Pitchfork (1976). Brautigan committed suicide in 1984. A book of...
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Brautigan, Richard
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Brautigan, Richard (1935–84), San Francisco author, whose loosely conceived short “novels” composed of comic...
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Collins, Billy
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Another was the counterculture fiction writer and poet Richard Brautigan. “He was a real influence on me...Collins told Keefer. “I wrote bad imitative Richard Brautigan poems for a couple years in the 1970s …...
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San Francisco
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
...Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder, Gregory Corso, Philip Whalen, and Michael McClure. Also related were Richard Brautigan, James Broughton, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, and John Wieners. At Big Sur, south of Carmel, Henry Miller...
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The 1980s: The Arts: Deaths
Book article from: American Decades
...74, a Soviet-born painter and sculptor, who founded the American Abstract Artists group, 21 November 1981. Richard Brautigan, 49, novelist known for his Trout Fishing in America (1967), 25 October 1984. Bricktop, 89, American expatriate...
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