In Watermelon Salt -- The Lost Richard Brautigan

B. Elwin Sherman is a humorist/author living in the New Hampshire North Country, where he writes a syndicated humor column and often reinvents& 34;the cottage industry survival kit.& 34; His books have gone largely unheralded,& 34;because I do nothing to promote them. No one should ever have a legacy before they& 39;re dead. Life is embarrassing enough without that.& 34; He first read Richard Gary Brautigan& 39;s works in college,& 34;when everyone else was lugging around Nietzsche and Kant for ballast. I kept In Watermelon Sugar in my hand because there was a tsunami on the horizon, and there I was without a beach umbrella.& 34;