Charles Bukowski
1) On cats
2) Ham on rye
3) Hollywood
4) On drinking
5) Pulp
"The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles."—Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author
"He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels."—Leonard Cohen, songwriter
In The Last Night of the Earth Poems, Charles Bukowski's gritty poems deal with writing, death and immortality, literature, city life, illness, war, and the past.
8) On writing
9) Factotum
"The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles."—Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author
"He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels."—Leonard Cohen, songwriter
One of Charles Bukowski's best, this beer-soaked, deliciously degenerate novel follows the wanderings of aspiring writer Henry Chinaski across World War II-era America. Deferred from military service, Chinaski travels from city to city, moving listlessly from one odd job
..."The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles."—Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author
"He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels."—Leonard Cohen, songwriter
A book length collaboration between two underground legends, Charles Bukowski and Robert Crumb. In The Captain is Out to Lunch, Bukowski's last journals candidly and humorously reveal the events in the writer's life as death draws inexorably nearer, thereby illuminating
...A compilation of Charles Bukowski's underground articles from his column "Notes of a Dirty Old Man" appears here in book form. Bukowski's reasoning for self-describing himself as a 'dirty old man' rings true in this book.
"People come to my door—too many of them really—and knock to tell me Notes of a Dirty Old Man turns them on. A bum off the road brings in a gypsy and his wife and we talk . . . . drink half the night.
..."The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles."—Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author
"He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels."—Leonard Cohen, songwriter
Septuagenarian Stew is a combination of poetry and stories written by Charles Bukowski that delve into the lives of different people on the backstreets of Los Angeles. He writes of the housewife, the bum, the gambler and the celebrity to evoke a portrait of Los Angeles.
...Mad, immortal stories now surfaced from the literary underground.
This collection of stories was once part of the 1972 City Lights classic, Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness.That book was later split into two volumes and republished:Tales of Ordinary Madness and, this book, The Most Beautiful Woman in Town.
These stories have addicted legions of American readers, even though
...Everyone's favorite Dirty Old Man returns with a new volume of uncollected work. Charles Bukowski (1920–1994), one of the most outrageous figures of twentieth-century American literature, was so prolific that many significant pieces never found their way into his books. Absence of the Hero contains much of his earliest fiction, unseen in decades, as well as a number of previously unpublished stories and essays. The classic Bukowskian obsessions
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