In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely years of his own hardscrabble youth in the raw voice of alter ego Henry Chinaski. From a harrowingly cheerless childhood in Germany through acne-riddled...
A new sequence of poems from the archive of verse Bukowski left to be published after his death in 1994. It includes poems of love, sex, and advice to so-called losers to have confidence in themselves. 'In the age of conformity, Bukowski wrote about...
"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. A long distance operator from Newburgh, N.Y. sends...
Mit diesem lapidaren Satz beginnt Charles Bukowski einen illusionslosen Roman, der sich nirgends über die Perspektive eines jungen Mannes erhebt, der essen, trinken und gelegentlich eine Frau haben will und dafür arbeiten muss. Was kann daran...
A book length collaboration between two underground legends, Charles Bukowski and Robert Crumb. Bukowski's last journals candidly and humorously reveal the events in the writer's life as death draws inexorably nearer, thereby illuminating our own...
Poems rising from and returning to Bukowski's personal experiences reflect people, objects, places, and events of the external world, and reflects on them, on their way out and back.