NPR Podcast on Richard Brautigan

February 7, 2010 By: Marshall Cutchin

Audie Cornish interviews former Poet Laureate Billy Collins, who recently wrote the introduction for a new edition of Trout Fishing in America.
Excerpt: “He was very easy to spot. And I describe him in the introduction as being a very tall fellow who combined hippie dress — colorful shirts and beads — with nineteenth-century pioneer clothes, including a waistcoat and boots, all topped by an enormous beat-up western hat.”

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