Charles Bukowski

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If you haven't read. Anything. By Charles Bukowski. Read. Post Office.

If you are currently in employment, you will relate to Bukowski. I guarantee it.

Nothing has changed since the publication of this novel.
 
“It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well."

Great Bukowski quote

Probably the reason we love M. who can say they really truly know him?
 
I made this 100 years ago...samples the above-posted spoken word poem with sections of the Bukowski-centric films Barfly and Factotum

 
I made this 100 years ago...samples the above-posted spoken word poem with sections of the Bukowski-centric films Barfly and Factotum



Pretty cool! And that is Bukowski in your video too!
 
met him once, after a reading of his right near the end, it was in the restroom and I was drinking scotch from a flask, he eyed, so I gave him some, we talked a while, then his handlers came in, they were not happy with me, but he was, so f*** them
 
Bukowski wrote the screenplay for this film. You may spot him at the bar too!

 
One of my all time favorite authors/poets. God bless him forever and ever.
 
Bukowski wrote the screenplay for this film. You may spot him at the bar too!



Ben Gazzara was pretty good in Tales Of Ordinary Madness too!



Jean-Luc Godard was inspired by Bukowski when he made
Every Man For Himself and he got Bukowski to translate the
subtitles to the picture.

 
Barry Miles

"London: Virgin Books, 2005.

All through the sixties one of the strongest voices in the little literary magazines that I sold at Better Books, then later at Indica Books, was Charles Bukowski, so when, in 1968, John Lennon and Paul McCartney set up Zapple Records and asked me to be the label manager, I put Bukowski near the top of the list of people I would like to record. I did in fact record him, early the next year, at his home in a seedy part of Hollywood. He was still working for the Post Office on the night shift, and refused to enter a recording studio for fear that he would mess things up and embarrass himself. Consequently I wired his living room up and left him with a tape recorder and 12 reels of tape. He filled them all but sadly, Allen Klein closed down the Zapple label before I had a chance to even edit Buk’s tapes. He was always known as Buk, pronounced, as he put it, ‘not Buk as in f***, but Buke as in Puke.’ I always enjoyed his books, though I felt that Black Sparrow milked the poetry a bit too much: a tighter editorial selection would have been better for his reputation and career. Having written biographies of Ginsberg, Burroughs, and the like, Bukowski seemed another obvious choice of subject. He was not a member of the Beat Generation: he was straight, poorly educated and living in the wrong city, but in many ways his career paralleled theirs. I really like this book and think it stands up rather better than some of my others. The photographs on the sleeve were originally taken for the Zapple spoken word album that never happened (Blast First released the tapes many years later as a double-CD, long out of print.)"

 
You can buy Factotum on Amazon for £1.99



 
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You can stream Barfly via the link below. Excellent quality. The YouTube version is terrible.

 
That film, Factotum, is a masterwork. Just make sure you read the book (Factotum) first.
 
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