Empty Mirror

a literary magazine

  • About
    • About Empty Mirror
    • Get in Touch
    • Support EM
    • Colophon
  • Submit
  • Contributors
  • Essays
  • On Literature
  • Poetry
  • Reviews
  • Art
  • Interviews
  • Beat
    • Beat Generation
    • Ted Joans Lives!
  • +
    • Fiction
    • Music & Film
    • News
    • On Writing
    • Book Collecting

Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan, reviewed by Eric D. Lehman

Eric D. Lehman

Trout Fishing in America - Richard Brautigan

Richard Brautigan’s 1967 novella Trout Fishing in America is a difficult book. The opening chapter, “The Cover for Trout Fishing in America,” immediately puts the reader off balance, with a … [Read more...]

Trout Fishing: Richard Brautigan Poems by Alan Catlin

Alan Catlin

Richard Brautigan

Richard Brautigan’s Trout Fishing in America Winter leaks from the cracked tar sealing around the carbon stained brick chimney forming puddles of sludge and ash along with the spilled hurricane … [Read more...]

The Ghosts Who Travel with Me: A Literary Pilgrimage Through Brautigan’s America by Allison Green

Empty Mirror News

Allison Green / Brautigan

I must have decided that Trout Fishing in America would be the one to represent all that I had read and loved as a teenager. But who had that girl been? And did she notice that the woman on the cover … [Read more...]

The EM newsletter

Receive fresh poetry, reviews, essays, art, and literary news every Wednesday!

Empty Mirror

Established in 2000 and edited by Denise Enck, Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine that publishes new work each Friday.

Each week EM features several poems each by one or two poets; reviews; critical essays; visual art; and personal essays.

Subscribe Submissions Support
© 2000–2026 D. Enck / Empty Mirror.
Copyright of all content remains with its authors.
Privacy Policy · Privacy Tools · FTC disclosures