Pynchon's 1973 novel Gravity's Rainbow is dedicated to Richard Fariña. Richard Barone's 2016 album Sorrows & Promises: Greenwich Village in the 1960s contains Barone's interpretation of Fariña's "Pack Up Your Sorrows" performed as a duet with Nellie McKay. In Richard Linklater's movie Slacker, Fariña is described as a "young truth with balls," who could "think and fuck at the same time" (along with Richard Feynman, Italo Balbo, et al.), which is why "history buried him." On Jimmy Buffett's 1973 album A White Sport Coat and A Pink Crustacean, the single "Death of An Unpopular Poet" is claimed by Buffett to have been inspired by Farina and fellow poet Kenneth Patchen. References Further reading Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me by Richard Fariña, Penguin Classics Long Time Coming and a Long Time Gone by Richard Fariña, Random House Positively Fourth Street by David Hajdu, North Point Press External links Richard and Mimi Fariña website Pynchon on Fariña The Road Where Richard Fariña Died? Negatively 4th Street (archived) A few original letters written by Richard Fariña 1937 births 1966 deaths American people of Galician descent American folk singers American male singer-songwriters 20th-century American novelists Appalachian dulcimer players Cornell University alumni Folk music of the American Southwest Motorcycle road incident deaths Singers from New York City Musicians from Brooklyn People from Greenwich Village Road incident deaths in California Vanguard Records artists Writers from Brooklyn Elektra Records artists American writers of Cuban descent 20th-century American singers American male novelists American male short story writers Brooklyn Technical High School alumni 20th-century American short story writers People from Carmel-by-the-Sea, California Joan Baez Novelists from New York (state) 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American male singers Singer-songwriters from New York (state) Singer-songwriters from California