In an impressive feat of book identification, Matt Stowe, buyer at Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn, N.Y., recently was able to find a book for a customer who couldn't remember the author's name or the title but drew a picture of what he remembered of the cover (l.). The book: a collection of three Richard Brautigan titles, Trout Fishing in America, The Pill versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar, published as a collection in 1989. The iconic photograph had been used on the cover of Trout Fishing in America when it was first published in 1967.
