The American artists muchimitated memoir described by Paul Auster as ampampquotone of the few totally original books I have ever read.ampampquotJoe Brainards I Remember is a literary and artistic cult classic praised and admired by writers from Paul Auster to John Ashery and Edmund White. As autobiography Brainards method was brilliantly simple to set down specific memories as they rose to the surface of his consciousness each prefaced by the refrain ampampquotI rememberampampquot ampampquotI remember when I thought that if you did anything bad policemen would put you in jail.ampampquot Brainards enduring gem of a book has been issued in various forms over the past thirty years. In 1970 Angel Hair books published the first edition of I Remember which quickly sold out he wrote two subsequent volumes for Angel Hair More I Remember 1972 and More I Remember More 1973 both of which proved as popular as the original.