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10 best books like Willard and His Bowling Trophies (Richard Brautigan): The Fan Man, Car, Cutter and Bone, The Black Mass of Brother Springer, Asphodel, Pricksongs and Descants, Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris, Ethan Frome, Summer, Bunner Sisters, You Can't Catch Death, Jubilee Hitchhiker: The Life and Times of Richard Brautigan

The Fan Man
AuthorWilliam Kotzwinkle
ISBN0679752455
The Fan Man is a comic novel published in 1974 by the American writer William Kotzwinkle. It is told in the first-person by the narrator, Horse Badorties, a down-at-the-heels hippie living a life of drug-fueled befuddlement in New York City c. 1970. The book is written in a colorful, vernacular "hippie-speak"...
Car
AuthorHarry Crews
By this point, Crews isn’t writing novels so much as extended metaphors. No one ever accused him of subtlety, but Car loses whatever traction he gained in the right direction with Karate. I notice that in Classic Crews, this and The Gypsy’s Curse are included in full so I am forced to capitulate that...
Cutter and Bone
AuthorNewton Thornburg
ISBN1852426764
The headline reads ? LOCAL GIRL SLAIN, BODY FOUND IN TRASHCAN. When Richard Bone sees a picture of conglomerate tycoon J.J. Wolfe in the newspaper, he's struck by how closely he resembles the man Bone saw dumping the body: could this millionaire redneck be the killer? Bone's close friend Cutter, a crippled...
The Black Mass of Brother Springer
AuthorCharles Willeford
ISBN1930997353
"No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford" Elmore Leonard THE BLACK MASS OF BROTHER SPRINGER tells the story of Sam Springer, a drifter novelist who meets Jack Dover, the retiring Abbot of the Church of God's Flock. Dover's final official act is to ordain Springer and send him off to serve...
Asphodel
AuthorH.D.
ISBN0822312425
"DESTROY," H.D. had pencilled across the title page of this autobiographical novel. Although the manuscript survived, it has remained unpublished since its completion in the 1920s. Regarded by many as one of the major poets of the modernist period, H.D. created in Asphodel a remarkable and readable...
Pricksongs and Descants
AuthorRobert Coover
ISBN0802136672
Pricksongs & Descants, originally published in 1969, is a virtuoso performance that established its author - already a William Faulkner Award winner for his first novel - as a writer of enduring power and unquestionable brilliance, a promise he has fulfilled over a stellar career. It also began...
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
AuthorPaul Gallico
ISBN1558820213
Mrs Harris is a salt-of-the-earth London charlady who cheerfully cleans the houses of the rich. One day, when tidying Lady Dant's wardrobe, she comes across the most beautiful thing she has ever seen in her life - a Dior dress. In all the years of her drab and humble existence, she's never seen anything...
Ethan Frome, Summer, Bunner Sisters
AuthorEdith Wharton
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) These three brilliantly wrought, tragic novellas explore the repressed emotions and destructive passions of working-class people far removed from the social milieu usually inhabited by Edith Wharton's characters. Ethan Frome is one of Wharton's most famous...
You Can't Catch Death
AuthorIanthe Brautigan
ISBN0312264186
In all of the obituaries and writing about Richard Brautigan that appeared after his suicide, none revealed to Ianthe Brautigan the father she knew. Through it took all of her courage, she delved into her memories, good and bad, to retrieve him, and began to write. You Can't Catch Death is a frank, courageous,...
Jubilee Hitchhiker: The Life and Times of Richard Brautigan
AuthorWilliam Hjortsberg
ISBN1582437904
Confident and robust, Jubilee Hitchhiker is an comprehensive biography of late novelist and poet Richard Brautigan, author of Troutfishing in America and A Confederate General from Big Sur, among many others. When Brautigan took his own life in September of 1984 his close friends and network of artists...
Typical: Stories
AuthorPadgett Powell
ISBN0805071229
Willie Stargell, prodigious hitter of home runs and occasional philosopher, once considered that every baseball game begins with the home plate umpire reaching an arm over the shoulder of a squatting catcher, pointing toward the pitcher, and ordering, in a melodic voice, "PLAAAAAAAAY BALL!" "He...
House Mother Normal
AuthorB.S. Johnson
ISBN0811209814
Eight residents in a home for the elderly sit down to dinner, along with the House Mother herself, and each takes it in turn to relay the proceedings of the evening from their own, individual perspective. By virtue of the novel’s clever structure, the reader’s comprehension of events is limited...
Three Lives & Tender Buttons
AuthorGertrude Stein
ISBN0451528727
Three Lives is...magnificent, ground-breakingly original, exciting, controversial, ahead-of-its-time...These are just a few adjectives that come immediately to mind when I think of this book.

For those who say that Gertrude Stein is 'difficult' to read, then boy try reading Faulkner...
The Really Funny Thing About Apathy
AuthorChelsea Martin
ISBN1934513245
Fiction. In THE REALLY FUNNY THING ABOUT APATHY, Chelsea Martin's charming but merciless prose employs mathematical paradoxes and theories of infinity to examine the inner workings of the bored and culturally over-stimulated while they idly consider the meaning of life. Overwhelmed and assaulted...
The Tormented Mirror
AuthorRussell Edson
ISBN0822957639
This is the first book in the Pitt Poetry Series by this popular and enigmatic poet, considered the foremost writer of prose poetry in America. In eleven collections over thirty years, Edson has created his own poetic genre, a surreal philosophical fable, easy to enter, but difficult to leave behind....
Come Back, Dr. Caligari
AuthorDonald Barthelme
ISBN0316082546
In 1964, Barthelme collected his early stories in Come Back, Dr. Caligari, for which he received considerable critical acclaim as an innovator of the short story form. His style (fictional and popular figures in absurd situations, e.g., the Batman-inspired "The Joker's Greatest Triumph"), spawned...
Stone Junction
AuthorJim Dodge
ISBN0802135854
Introitus lapidis, que arranca con el derechazo propinado en la mandíbula a una monja, es una odisea moderna sobre la búsqueda del conocimiento y de la comprensión, simbolizados por una extraña esfera de diamante, supuestamente la Piedra Filosofal, custodiada por el gobierno de los EEUU. Daniel...
The Televisionary Oracle
AuthorRob Brezsny
ISBN1583940006
I wanted to like this book a whole heck of a lot more than I actually did. Nearly 500 pages of simultaneously grandiose and self-deprecating goddess worship and Bohemian musings. I can't swear that I wouldn't have liked this back when I was twenty-one or so, but, then again, I was twenty-one in the 1990s,...
The Collected Fanzines
AuthorHarmony Korine
ISBN0982048009
Film director Harmony Korine, whose work includes "Gummo," "Julien Donkey Boy," and most recently "Mister Lonely," has also worked in the field of graphic art, releasing the books "A Crack Up at the Race Riots" and "Pass the Bitch Chicken" in the past decade. Before those books, he and fellow artist...
A House in the Uplands
AuthorErskine Caldwell
A ridiculously overheated melodrama set on a decaying southern plantation, featuring a prideful, spoiled young "aristocrat", his mother who encourages him in those traits, his neglected, weepy wife, their downtrodden servants and field hands, a "modern" cousin, an earthy lower-class tenant......
Liartown: The First Four Years 2013-2017
AuthorSean Tejaratchi
ISBN1627310541
full review to come, but OH how i loved this book.

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if anyone needs me (and you won't), i live inside this book now.

nothing has ever made me laugh this hard.

here's a sampling of ones that made me laugh/cry/pee, with...
The Subject Steve
AuthorSam Lipsyte
ISBN0767908856
The bad news was bad. I was dying. I was dying of something no one had ever died of before. I was dying of something absolutely, fantastically new.

The Subject Steve is a dark, dazzling, and totally original satire on human mortality and our desperate efforts to evade it. Meet Steve (not his...
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