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Jarvis Cocker on Richard Brautigan鈥檚 grisly death
Jarvis Cocker explores the life and legacy of American writer Richard Brautigan, whose novel 'Sombrero Fallout' Jarvis selected as the only book he would take with him on Desert Island Discs. Cocker meets William Hjortsberg who was Brautigan鈥檚 neighbour when he lived in Montana before his move to California where he committed suicide in 1984. Hjortsberg describes the horrifying details of the author鈥檚 death and his efforts to peel back the layers of Brautigan folklore to assess Brautigan鈥檚 place in the canon of modern American literature.
