You Can't Catch Death
10 best books like You Can't Catch Death (Ianthe Brautigan): City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara, Jubilee Hitchhiker: The Life and Times of Richard Brautigan, Sweetie, Rimbaud: The Double Life of a Rebel, Loading Mercury With a Pitchfork, The Boy in the Book, Extreme Metaphors, Ulysses And Us: The Art Of Everyday Living, The Feel Good Hit of the Year, The Devil Drives: A Life of Sir Richard Burton
| Author | Brad Gooch |
| ISBN | 0394571185 |
Received this book from friend Phyllis years ago and never read it until this month. Gooch's biography of poet and Musuem of Modern Art curator Frank O'Hara is informative and well-researched and documented. Gooch also incorporates many excerpts from O'Hara's poetry to show how the poet's experiences...
| Author | William Hjortsberg |
| ISBN | 1582437904 |
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...
| Author | Jenny Tomlin |
| ISBN | 0099509830 |
It is the summer of 1976, the hottest summer on record.
In the heart of London's bustling East End lies a tight-knit community of families. They lead a very traditional way of life, the men are down the pub, the women are gossiping at the toddler group in the working men's club and the children stay...
| Author | Edmund White |
| ISBN | 1934633151 |
The distinguished biographer, novelist, and memoirist Edmund White brings his literary mastery to a new biography of Arthur Rimbaud.
Poet and prodigy Arthur Rimbaud led a life that was startlingly short, but just as dramatically eventful and accomplished. Even today, over a century after...
| Author | Richard Brautigan |
| ISBN | 0671222716 |
I swear you could read this entire collection in fifteen minutes doing some sort of standing exercise by a lamp in a dark room past midnight, say meh to the majority of it and love the hell out of at least five of the bite-size poems inside. Here are a few of my favorites:
MONTANA INVENTORY
At...
As a boy Nathan Penlington had loved Choose Your Own Adventure novels. So when he came across a set of the first 106 volumes for sale on eBay, he snapped them up. Picking up the first, The Cave of Time, he was looking forward to a nostalgic trip back to his own childhood. What he discovered instead would send...
| Author | J.G. Ballard |
| ISBN | 0007454856 |
A startling and at times unsettlingly prescient collection of J.G. Ballard’s greatest interviews.
J.G. Ballard was a literary giant. His novels were unique and surprising. To the journalists and admirers who sought him out, Ballard was the ‘seer of Shepperton’; his home the vantage...
Ulysses And Us: The Art Of Everyday Living
| Author | Declan Kiberd |
| ISBN | 0571242545 |
A righthearted but wrongheaded attempt to reboot Ulysses as a fount of the zen wisdom of everyday life and a book every ordinary reader should eagerly glom onto. This is a very stupid idea. God bless Declan Kibert for having such a stupid idea, but God curse all his friends and editors for not strenuously...
What happens when a young man adopts the practices of a counterculture, without any of its ethics?
Liam Pieper was raised by his bohemian parents to believe in freedom and creativity, and that there's nothing wrong with smoking a little marijuana to make life easier. Nothing if not precocious,...
| Author | Fawn M. Brodie |
| ISBN | 0393301664 |
Starting in a hollowed log of wood—some thousand miles up a river, with an infinitesimal prospect of returning! I ask myself "Why?" and the only echo is "damned fool! . . . the Devil drives!"
So Richard Francis Burton, preparing for an exploration of the lower Congo in 1863, wrote to Monckton...
A Little Original Sin: The Life and Work of Jane Bowles
| Author | Millicent Dillon |
| ISBN | 0520211936 |
There were more than a few odd things about Jane.
She fell off a horse at the age of 15 and broke her leg. Then she got TB - in her leg. Which wouldn't heal. So she was sent off to a Swiss sanatorium, where she learned French & continued her education in French, whilst her mother swanned about in...
| Author | Natan Sharansky |
| ISBN | 1891620029 |
Temperamentally and intellectually, Natan Sharansky is a man very much like many of us—which makes this account of his arrest on political grounds, his trial, and ten years' imprisonment in the Orwellian universe of the Soviet gulag particularly vivid and resonant.
Since Fear No Evil...
