From Atlas Obscura:
There are many places voracious readers can go to find books the publishing industry has deemed worthy of sale. Less common are places to find those it has not. One such place is the Brautigan Library.
The library’s inspiration, and name, came from the 1971 novel The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966 by Richard Brautigan, in which the protagonist works at a library of unpublished manuscripts. In the novel, no one is allowed to visit the library and read the unpublished works. But in the library it inspired, that’s the whole point.
More than 300 physical manuscripts, all unpublished, are currently housed in the Brautigan Library at the Clark County Historical Museum in Vancouver, Washington. The library originally opened in Burlington, Vermont, in 1990, with founder Todd Lockwood taking submissions from whoever wanted to be part of it. In 2010, it was moved to Vancouver, about two hours from Tacoma, where Brautigan was born.
Link to the rest at Atlas Obscura
I recently read the memoir of his daughter.* A stunning book, much of it dealing with the realities of a daughter whose famous father committed suicide, but a beautiful book, nonetheless.
And it will make you want to read some Richard Brautigan.
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*YOU CAN’T CATCH DEATH by Ianthe Brautigan
And now you know where all the slush pile rejects ended up.
(Just kidding, it’d be in the millions if not billions if it did get the slush pile …)