Charles Bukowski Books In Order

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Post Office (1971)
  2. Factotum (1975)
  3. Women (1978)
  4. Ham on Rye (1982)
  5. Barfly (1983)
  6. Hollywood (1989)
  7. Pulp (1994)

Collections In Publication Order

  1. Run With the Hunted (1962)
  2. Crucifix in a Deathhand (1965)
  3. Cold Dogs In The Courtyard (1965)
  4. At Terror Street And Agony Way (1968)
  5. The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills (1969)
  6. Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness (1972)
  7. Mockingbird Wish Me Luck (1972)
  8. South of No North (1973)
  9. Poems written before jumping out of an 8 story window (1974)
  10. Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame (1974)
  11. Love Is a Dog from Hell (1977)
  12. Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit (1979)
  13. Dangling in the Tournefortia (1981)
  14. The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories (1983)
  15. Tales of Ordinary Madness (1983)
  16. Hot Water Music (1983)
  17. War All the Time (1984)
  18. You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense (1986)
  19. The Roominghouse Madrigals (1988)
  20. A Bukowski Sampler (1988)
  21. Septuagenarian Stew (1990)
  22. In the Shadow of the Rose (1991)
  23. The Last Night of the Earth Poems (1992)
  24. Betting on the Muse (1996)
  25. Bone Palace Ballet (1997)
  26. What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire (1999)
  27. Open All Night (2000)
  28. The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps (2001)
  29. Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way: New Poems Book 1 (2002)
  30. Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way: New Poems Book 2 (2002)
  31. New Poems Book One (2003)
  32. New Poems Book Two (2003)
  33. New Poems Book Three (2003)
  34. New Poems Book Four (2003)
  35. The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain (2003)
  36. Come On In! (2006)
  37. The People Look Like Flowers At Last (2007)
  38. The Pleasures of the Damned (2007)
  39. Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook (2008)
  40. The Continual Condition (2009)
  41. Absence of the Hero (2010)
  42. The Bell Tolls for No One (2015)
  43. Storm for the Living and the Dead (2017)

ChapBooks In Publication Order

  1. Fire Station (1970)
  2. Bring Me Your Love (1983)
  3. There’s No Business (1984)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. All the As*sholes in the World and Mine (1966)
  2. Notes of a Dirty Old Man (1969)
  3. Shakespeare Never Did This (1979)
  4. The Bukowski/Purdy Letters (1984)
  5. Screams from the Balcony (1993)
  6. Living On Luck (1995)
  7. The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship (1998)
  8. Reach for the Sun (1999)
  9. Beerspit Night and Cursing (2001)
  10. Selected Letters Volume 1: 1958-1965 (2004)
  11. Selected Letters Volume 2: 1965-1970 (2004)
  12. Selected Letters Volume 3: 1971-1986 (2004)
  13. Slouching Toward Nirvana (2005)
  14. Selected Letters Volume 4: 1987-1994 (2005)
  15. More Notes of a Dirty Old Man (2011)
  16. On Writing (2015)
  17. On Cats (2015)
  18. On Love (2016)
  19. The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way: On Writers and Writing (2018)
  20. On Drinking (2019)

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Charles Bukowski Books Overview

Post Office

‘It began as a mistake.’ By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life to the U.S. Postal Service. In a world where his three true, bitter pleasures are women, booze, and racetrack betting, he somehow drags his hangover out of bed every dawn to lug waterlogged mailbags up mud soaked mountains, outsmart vicious guard dogs, and pray to survive the day to day trials of sad*istic bosses and certifiable coworkers. This classic 1971 novel the one that catapulted its author to national fame is the perfect introduction to the grimly hysterical world of legendary writer, poet, and Dirty Old Man Charles Bukowski and his fictional alter ego, Chinaski.

Factotum

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 to another, always needing money but never badly enough to keep a job. His day to day existence spirals into an endless litany of pathetic who*res, sordid rooms, dreary embraces, and drunken brawls, as he makes his bitter, brilliant way from one drink to the next.

Charles Bukowski’s posthumous legend continues to grow. Factotum is a masterfully vivid evocation of slow paced, low life urbanity and alcoholism, and an excellent introduction to the fictional world of Charles Bukowski.

Women

Low life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low paying dead end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and Women, and scrimping by in flea bitten apartments, Chinaski sees his poetic star rising at last. Now, at fifty, he is reveling in his sudden rock star life, running three hundred hangovers a year, and maintaining a sex life that would cripple Casanova. With all of Bukowski’s trademark humor and gritty, dark honesty, this 1978 follow up to Post Office and Factotum is an uncompromising account of life on the edge.

Ham on Rye

Legendary barfly Charles Bukowski’s fourth novel, first published in 1982, is probably the most autobiographical and moving of all his books, dealing in particular with his difficult relationship with his father and his early childhood in LA. Ham on Rye follows the path of Bukowski’s alter ego Henry Chinaski through the high school years of acne and rejection and into the beginning of a long and successful career in alcoholism. The novel begins against the backdrop of an America devastated by the Depression and takes the Chinaski legend up to the bombing of Pearl Harbour. Arguably Bukowski’s finest novel.

Barfly

The screenplay of the 1987 movie, as written by Charles Bukowski.

Hollywood

Hank and his wife, Sarah, agree to write a screenplay, and encounter the strange world of the movie industry.

Pulp

Bukowski’s final novel is a slightly surreal pastiche of the classic Mickey Spillane, Chandleresque private dick novel. Nick Belane, is a lonely, middle aged, egotistical, alcoholic private detective who is badly in need of some lucrative work, but what he gets is a series of increasingly strange assignments from a bizarre collection of clients. He is asked to track down the long dead French classical author Celine and an elusive red sparrow. He encounters aliens, heavies and even lady Death herself along the way. All the while Belane is convincing himself that he’s still a white hot detective and that nobody can take him for a ride, or indeed make him feel he’s losing his mind. Boozing heavily and trying to avoid getting beaten up in every bar along the way, he finally reaches the conclusion that he’s washed up. Bukowski’s deliberately overdone writing takes us on a fantastical ride through the dark corners and dodgy dealings of Belane’s film noir world with guns, broads and heavyset thugs. A great demonstration of Bukowski’s imaginative talents.

Run With the Hunted

From his early hardscrabble life to his literary success, Charles Bukowski’s unique personality came alive through his work. In 1993, the year before he died, this counterculture icon recorded and published selections from his classic Run With the Hunted. Now, for the first time, additional material from that recording session is included on this special, expanded edition, including candid conversations between Bukowski, his wife, and his producer. For any fan of Charles Bukowski, these recordings are an intimate look at a brilliant and wild mind.

Includes poems and selections from: Consummation of Grief; Less Delicate Than the Locust; are you drinking?; Ham on Rye; we ain’t got no money, honey but we got rain; and The Genius of the Crowd

At Terror Street And Agony Way

This double CD features 130 minutes of the first ever recordings of Charles Bukowski reading his own work. Culled from tapes made by Bukowski at his Los Angeles home in 1968 for biographer and rock critic Barry Miles, long before the author had begun regular public readings. Bukowski was so shy he insisted that he record alone. He reads both poetry and prose, gets thoroughly drunk during the recording, and bit*ches about his life, his landlord, and his neighbors.

South of No North

Charles Bukowski is one of America’s best known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in Andernach, Germany, and raised in Los Angeles, where he lived for fifty years. He published his first story in 1944, when he was twenty four, and began writing poetry at the age of thirty five. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp 1994.

Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame

Charles Bukowski is one of America’s best known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in Andernach, Germany, and raised in Los Angeles, where he lived for fifty years. He published his first story in 1944, when he was twenty four, and began writing poetry at the age of thirty five. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp.

The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories

These mad immortal stories, now surfaced from the literary underground, have addicted legions of American readers, even though the high literary establishment continues to ignore them. In Europe, however particularly in Germany, Italy, and France where he is published by the great publishing houses, he is critically recognized as one of America’s greatest living realist writers. Charles Bukowski was born in Andernach, Germany in 1920 and brought to America at the age of two. Eighteen or twenty books of prose and poetry, Bukowski, after publishing prose in Story and Portfolio, stopped writing for ten years. He arrived in the charity ward of the Los Angeles County General Hospital, hemorrhaging as a climax to a ten year drinking bout. Some say he didn’t die. After leaving the hospital he got a typewriter and began writing again this time, poetry. He later returned to prose and gained some fame with his column, Notes of a Dirty Old Man. After 14 years in the Post Office he resigned at age 50, he says, to keep from going insane. He now claims to be unemployable and eats typewriter ribbons.

Tales of Ordinary Madness

With Bukowski, the votes are still coming in. There seems to be no middle ground people seem either to love him or hate him. Tales of his own life and doings are as wild and weird as the very stories he writes. In a sense, Bukowski was a legend in his time…
a madman, a recluse, a lover…
tender, vicious…
never the same…
these are exceptional stories that come pounding out of his violent and depraved life…
horrible and holy, you cannot read them and ever come away the same again.

Hot Water Music

Hot Water Music is a collection of short stories by Charles Bukowski, published in 1983. The collection deals largely with: drinking, women, gambling, and writing. It is an important collection that establishes Bukowski’s minimalist style and his thematic oeuvre.

War All the Time

Charles Bukowski is one of America’s best known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in Andernach, Germany, and raised in Los Angeles, where he lived for fifty years. He published his first story in 1944, when he was twenty four, and began writing poetry at the age of thirty five. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp 1994.

You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

Charles Bukowski is one of America’s best known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in Andernach, Germany, and raised in Los Angeles, where he lived for fifty years. He published his first story in 1944, when he was twenty four, and began writing poetry at the age of thirty five. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp 1994.

The Roominghouse Madrigals

Charles Bukowski is one of America’s best known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in Andernach, Germany, and raised in Los Angeles, where he lived for fifty years. He published his first story in 1944, when he was twenty four, and began writing poetry at the age of thirty five. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp 1994.

The Last Night of the Earth Poems

Poems deal with writing, death and immortality, literature, city life, illness, war, and the past.

Bone Palace Ballet

This is a collection of 175 previously unpublished works by Bukowski. It contains yarns about his childhood in the Depression and his early literary passions, his apprentice days as a hard drinking, starving poetic aspirant, and his later years when he looks back at fate with defiance.

What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

This second posthumous collection from Charles Bukowski takes readers deep into the raw, wild vein of writing that extends from the early 70s to the 1990s.

Open All Night

These 189 posthumously published new poems take us deeper into the raw, wild vein of Bukowski’s that extends from the early 1980s up to the time of his death in 1994.

The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps

This collection of previously unpublished poems offers the author’s take on squabbling neighbours, off kilter lovers, would be hangers on, and the loneliness of a man afflicted with acute powers of observation. The tone is gritty and amusing, spiralling out towards a cock eyed wisdom.

Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way: New Poems Book 1

from ‘neither Shakespeare nor Mickey Spillane’young young young, only wanting the Word, going mad in the streets and in the bars,brutal fights, broken glass, crazy women screaming inyour cheap room,you a familiar guest at the drunk tank, NorthAvenue 21, Lincoln Heightssifting through the madness for the Word, the line the way,hoping for a check from somewhere,dreaming of a letter from a great editor:’Chinaski, you don’t know how long we’ve beenwaiting for you!’no chance at all.

Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way: New Poems Book 2

from ‘neither Shakespeare nor Mickey Spillane’ young young young, only wanting the Word, going mad in the streets and in the bars, brutal fights, broken glass, crazy women screaming in your cheap room, you a familiar guest at the drunk tank, North Avenue 21, Lincoln Heights sifting through the madness for the Word, the line the way, hoping for a check from somewhere, dreaming of a letter from a great editor: ‘Chinaski, you don’t know how long we’ve been waiting for you!’ no chance at all.

The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain

Throwing away the alarm clock my father always said, ‘early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.’ It was lights out at 8 p.m. in our house and we were up at dawn to the smell of coffee, frying bacon and scrambled eggs. My father followed this general routine for a lifetime and died young, broke, and, I think, not too wise. Taking note, I rejected his advice and it became, for me, late to bed and late to rise. Now, I’m not saying I’ve conquered the world but I’ve avoided numberless early traffic jams, bypassed some common pitfalls and have met some strange, wonderful people one of whom was myself someone my father never knew.

Come On In!

another comeback

climbing back up out of the ooze, out of
the thick black tar,
rising up again, a modern
Lazarus.
you’re amazed at your good
fortune.
somehow you’ve had more
than your share of second
chances.
hell, accept it.
what you have, you have.
you walk and look in the bathroom
mirror
at an idiot’s smile.
you know your luck.
some go down and never climb back up.
something is being kind to you.
you turn from the mirror and walk into the
world.
you find a chair, sit down, light a cigar.
back from a thousand wars
you look out from an open door into the silent
night.
Sibelius plays on the radio.
nothing has been lost or destroyed.
you blow smoke into the night,
tug at your right
ear.
baby, right now, you’ve got it
all.

The People Look Like Flowers At Last

the gas line is leaking, the bird is gone from the
cage, the skyline is dotted with vultures;
Benny finally got off the stuff and Betty now has a job
as a waitress; and
the chimney sweep was quite delicate as he
giggled up through the
soot.
I walked miles through the city and recognized
nothing as a giant claw ate at my
stomach while the inside of my head felt
airy as if I was about to go
mad.
it& 146;s not so much that nothing means
anything but more that it keeps meaning
nothing,
there& 146;s no release, just gurus and self
appointed gods and hucksters.
the more people say, the less there is to say.
even the best books are dry sawdust.

from ‘fingernails; nostrils; shoelaces’

The Pleasures of the Damned

To his legions of fans, Charles Bukowski was and remains the quintessential counterculture icon. A hard drinking wild man of literature and a stubborn outsider to the poetry world, he wrote unflinchingly about booze, work, and women, in raw, street tough poems whose truth has struck a chord with generations of readers. Edited by John Martin, the legendary publisher of Black Sparrow Press and a close friend of Bukowski’s, The Pleasures of the Damned is a selection of the best works from Bukowski’s long poetic career, including the last of his never before collected poems. Celebrating the full range of the poet’s extra ordinary and surprising sensibility, and his uncompromising linguistic brilliance, these poems cover a rich lifetime of experiences and speak to Bukowski’s ‘immense intelligence, the caring heart that saw through the sham of our pretenses and had pity on our human condition’ The New York Quarterly. The Pleasures of the Damned is an astonishing poetic treasure trove, essential reading for both longtime fans and those just discovering this unique and legendary American voice.

Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook

Charles Bukowski 19201994, one of the most outrageous and controversial figures of twentieth century American literature, was so prolific that many important pieces were never collected during his lifetime. Portions from a Wine Stained Notebook is a substantial selection of these wide ranging works, most of which have been unavailable since their original appearance in underground newspapers, literary journals, and even po*rn magazines. Among the highlights are Bukowski’s first published short story, ‘Aftermath of a Lengthy Rejection Slip’; his last short story, ‘The Other’; his first and last essays; and the first installment of his famous ‘Notes of a Dirty Old Man’ column.

The book contains meditations on his familiar themes drinking, horse racing, etc. as well as singular discussions of such figures as Artaud, Pound, and the Rolling Stones. Other significant works include the experimental title piece; a fictionalized account of meeting his hero, John Fante ‘I Meet the Master’; an unflinching review of Hemingway ‘An Old Drunk Who Ran Out of Luck’; the intense, autobiographical ‘Dirty Old Man Confesses’; and several discussions of his aesthetics ‘A Rambling Essay on Poetics and the Bleeding Life Written While Drinking a Six Pack Tall ,’ ‘In Defense of a Certain Type of Poetry, a Certain Type of Life, a Certain Type of Blood Filled Creature Who Will Someday Die,’ and ‘Upon the Mathematics of the Breath and the Way’. What is ultimately revealed is an unexpectedly learned mind behind his seemingly off hand productions.

Portions from a Wine Stained Notebook is essential reading for Bukowski fans, as well as a good introduction for new readers of this innovative, unconventional writer.

The Continual Condition

A volume of never before collected poems from America’s most imitated and influential poet In the literary pantheon, Charles Bukowski remains a counterculture icon. A hard drinking wild man of literature, a stubborn outsider to the poetry world, he has struck a chord with generations of readers, writing raw, tough poetry about booze, work, and women that speaks to his fans as being ‘real’ and, like the work of the Beats, even dangerous. Edited by his longtime publisher John Martin of Black Sparrow Press, The Continual Condition includes more of this legend’s never before collected poems.

Absence of the Hero

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 are here: sex, booze, and gambling, along with trenchant analysis of what he calls Playing and Being the Poet. Among the book s highlights are tales of his infamous public readings The Big Dope Reading, I Just Write Poetry So I Can Go to Bed with Girls ; a review of his own first book; hilarious installments of his newspaper column, Notes of a Dirty Old Man, including meditations on neo Na*zis and driving in Los Angeles; and an uncharacteristic tale of getting lost in the Utah woods Bukowski Takes a Trip . Yet the book also showcases the other Bukowski an astute if offbeat literary critic. From his own Manifesto to his account of poetry in Los Angeles A Foreword to These Poets to idiosyncratic evaluations of Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, LeRoi Jones, and Louis Zukofsky, Absence of the Hero reveals the intellectual hidden beneath the gruff exterior. Our second volume of his uncollected prose, Absence of the Hero is a major addition to the Bukowski canon, essential for fans, yet suitable for new readers as an introduction to the wide range of his work.

Bring Me Your Love

Fifteen pages of story and illustrations.

Notes of a Dirty Old Man

‘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 me money. She wants me to give up drinking beer and to eat well. I hear from a madman who calls himself ‘King Arthur’ and lives on Vine Street in Hollywood and wants to help me write my column. A doctor comes to my door: ‘I read your column and think I can help you. I used to be a psychiatrist.’ I send him away…

Screams from the Balcony

Charles Bukowski is one of America’s best known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in Andernach, Germany, and raised in Los Angeles, where he lived for fifty years. He published his first story in 1944, when he was twenty four, and began writing poetry at the age of thirty five. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp 1994.

Living On Luck

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The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship

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 lives and natures, and to give new meaning to what was once only familiar. Crumb has illustrated the text with 12 full page drawings and a portrait of Bukowski.

Reach for the Sun

Literary Criticism. Reach for the Sun is the third volume of Bukowski’s letters from Black Sparrow Press, selected by Seamus Cooney.

Beerspit Night and Cursing

Unmasks the tough, street smart persona of Charles Bukowski America’s ‘Ultimate Outsider’ Amazing letters filled with passionate, literary, and personal observation Insights into the author of Tales of Ordinary Madness, Notes of a Dirty Old Man, and Run with the Hunted Insights into Sheri Martinelli: the protege of Anais Nin, an accomplished painter, and the mistress of Ezra Pound Charels Bukowski’s persona as the Dirty Old Man of American Literature is just that: a persona, a mask beneath which there was a man better read and more cultured than most people realize. Sheri Martinelli was one of the favored few for whom Bukowski dropped the mask and engaged in serious discussion of literature and art, and for that reason the discovery and publication of his letters to her give us a more complete picture of this complicated man.

Selected Letters Volume 3: 1971-1986

I wrote letters to many in those days…
it was rather my way of screaming from my cage.’ The 1960’s saw Charles Bukowski struggle for recognition and slowly emerge as a unique, talented and prolific poet and writer, whilst holding down a day job at the Post Office. During the 1970’s and 80’s Bukowski writes about his own fame, his contemporaries and his good fortunes; at the end of the 70’s we see him beginning to enjoy the fruits of his labour. These letters to various literary contacts, friends and lovers provide an intimate and fascinating look at Bukowski’s mind, his emotions, his attitude towards his own creativity and the comings and goings of his daily life.

Slouching Toward Nirvana

in this place there are the dead, the deadly and the dying. there is the cross, the builders of the cross and the burners of the cross. the pattern of my life forms like a cheap shadow on the wall before me. my love what is left of it now must crawl to wherever it can crawl. the strongest know that death is final and the happiest are those gifted with the shortest journey.

Selected Letters Volume 4: 1987-1994

Charles Bukowski was a uniguely talented and prolific writer, best known for his Beat Generation writing that reflected his experience of low life urban America. Selected Letters Volume 4 collects together correspondence with various friends, lovers and literary contacts, providing an intimate and fascinating insight into Bolowski’s mind, his emotions and his attitude towards his own creativity, right up until his death in 1994.

More Notes of a Dirty Old Man

After toiling in obscurity for years, Charles Bukowski suddenly found fame in 1967 with his autobiographical newspaper column, ‘Notes of a Dirty Old Man,’ and a book of that name in 1969. He continued writing this column, in one form or another, through the mid 1980s. More Notes of a Dirty Old Mangathers many uncollected gems from the column’s twenty year run. Drawn from ephemeral underground publications, these stories and essays haven’t been seen in decades, makingMorea valuable addition to Bukowski’s oeuvre. Filled with his usual obsessions sex, booze, gambling Morefeatures Bukowski’s offbeat insights into politics and literature, his tortured, violent relationships with women, and his lurid escapades on the poetry reading circuit. Highlighting his versatility, the book ranges from thinly veiled autobiography to purely fictional tales of dysfunctional suburbanites, disgraced politicians, and down and out sports promoters, climaxing with a long, hilarious adventure among French filmmakers, ‘My Friend The Gambler,’ based on his experiences making the movieBarfly. From his lowly days at the post office through his later literary fame,Morefollows the entire arc of Bukowski’s colorful career. Edited by Bukowski scholar David Stephen Calonne,More Notes of a Dirty Old Manfeatures an afterword outlining the history of the column and its effect on the author’s creative development. Born in Andernach, Germany in 1920, Charles Bukowski came to California at age three and spent most of his life in Los Angeles. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994.

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