Trout Fishing in America. Richard Brautigan

       The Cover for Trout Fishing in America

       Knock on Wood (Part One)

       Knock on Wood (Part Two)

       Red Lip

       The Kool-Aid Wino

       Another Method of Making Walnut Catsup

       Prologue to Grider Creek

       Grider Creek

       The Ballet for Trout Fishing in America

       A Walden Pond for Winos

       Tom Martin Creek

       Trout Fishing on the Bevel

       Sea, Sea Rider

       The Last Year the Trout Came up Hayman Creek

       Trout Death by Port Wine

       The Autopsy of Trout Fishing in America

       The Message

       Trout Fishing in America Terrorists

       Trout Fishing in America with the FBI

       Worsewick

       The Shipping of Trout Fishing in America Shorty to Nelson Algren

       The Mayor of the Twentieth Century

       On Paradise

       The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

       The Salt Creek Coyotes

       The Hunchback Trout

       The Teddy Roosevelt Chingader’

       Footnote Chapter to “The Shipping of Trout Fishing in America Shorty to Nelson Algren”

       The Pudding Master of Stanley Basin

       Room 208, Hotel Trout Fishing in America

       The Surgeon

       A Note on the Camping Craze that is Currently Sweeping America

       A Return to the Cover of This Book

       The Lake Josephus Days

       Trout Fishing on the Street of Eternity

       The Towel

       Sandbox Minus John Dillinger Equals What?

       The Last Time I Saw Trout Fishing in America

       In the California Bush

       The Last Mention of Trout Fishing in America Shorty

       Witness for Trout Fishing in America Peace

       Footnote Chapter to “Red Lip”

       The Cleveland Wrecking Yard

       A Half-Sunday Homage to a Whole Leonardo da Vinci

       Trout Fishing in America Nib

       Prelude to the Mayonnaise Chapter

       The Mayonnaise Chapter

       Afterword

      There are seductions that should be

      in the Smithsonian Institute,

      right next to The Spirit of St. Louis.

       Trout Fishing in America

       THE COVER FORTROUT FISHING IN AMERICA

      The cover for Trout Fishing in America is a photograph taken late in the afternoon, a photograph of the Benjamin Franklin statue in San Francisco’s Washington Square.

      Born 1706—Died 1790, Benjamin Franklin stands on a pedestal that looks like a house containing stone furniture. He holds some papers in one hand and his hat in the other.

      Then the statue speaks, saying in marble:

      PRESENTED BY

      H.D. COGSWELL

      TO OUR

      BOYS AND GIRLS

      WHO WILL SOON

      TAKE OUR PLACES

      AND PASS ON.

      Around the base of the statue are four words facing the directions of this world, to the east