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Boston Globe correspondent and public librarian Kevin O’Kelly looks at the Brautigan Library, currently housed in the Fletcher Free Library in Burlington, Vermont. The idea for the library of unpublished manuscripts comes from Richard Brautigan’s novel “The Abortion.” Organized by the Mayonnaise System, the collection used mayonnaise jars as bookends until someone dropped one and the jar broke.

“People are fascinated by the idea that books shouldn’t be regulated by the fact that you have to have a publisher,” says one of Fletcher’s employees.

Any summary I give just isn’t going to do the article justice. Read it. Kevin’s a fabulous writer.

Field trip, anyone?

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