Limberlost Press, 167 pages, paperback, $15.00

This is an interesting companion book to Ianthe Brautigan’s You Can’t Catch Death. Keeler shares a number of personal recollections of his time spent in Montana with Richard Brautigan. Many of the stories leave you scratching your head as to why Keeler was willing to put up with so much of Brautigan’s antics — I’m not sure I could have — but such stories are balanced by tales of Brautigan at his best. He was a complicated person, for sure.

If you value Brautigan’s writing, then check out this book. I think Keeler has done a service by putting these stories in print.