Pulp

Hard-Boiled Mystery

Author: Charles Bukowski

Nicky Belane, private detective and career alcoholic, is a troubled man. He is plagued not just by broads, booze, lack of cash and a raging ego, but also by the surreal jobs he’s been hired to do. Not only has been hired to track down French classical author Celine – who’s meant to be dead – but he’s also supposed to find the elusive Red Sparrow – which may or may not be r….Read More

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Everyman

There is no more decorated American writer living today than Philip Roth, the New York Times best-selling author of American Pastoral, The Human Stain, and The Plot Against America. He… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Literature & Fiction, Mortality, Older People

Factotum

Henry Chinaski, an outcast, a loner and a hopeless dunk, drifts around America form one dead-end job to another, from one woman to another and from one bottle to the… Continue Reading Posted in: Alcoholics, Fiction, Man Woman Relationships

Ham on Rye

Follows the path of the author'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.… Continue Reading Posted in: Autobiographical Fiction, Manners And Customs, Teenage Boys

The Brotherhood of the Grape

Henry Molise, a 50 year old, successful writer, returns to the family home to help with the latest drama; his aging parents want to divorce. Henry's tyrannical, brick laying father,… Continue Reading Posted in: American Literature, Contemporary American Fiction, Family, Italian American Families, Italian Americans

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… Continue Reading Posted in: American Fiction Anthologies, Bukowski, Charles, Fiction, Short Stories, Social Life And Customs

Generation of Swine

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Hollywood

From iconic tortured artist/everyman Charles Bukowski, Hollywood is the fictionalization of his experience adapting his novel Barfly into a movie by the same name.Henry Chinaski, Bukowski’s alter-ego, is pushed to… Continue Reading Posted in: English Fiction, United States

Journey to the End of the Night

Told in the first person and based on his own experiences during the First World War, in French colonial Africa and in America, where he worked for while at the… Continue Reading Posted in: 1900, Fiction In French, French Fiction, Texts (Including Translations)

Hot Water Music

With his characteristic raw and minimalist style, Charles Bukowski takes us on a walk through his side of town in Hot Water Music.  He gives us little vignettes of depravity… Continue Reading Posted in: American, Biographical Fiction, Broadsides, English Fiction Short Stories, Science Fiction & Fantasy Writing, Short Stories

Wait Until Spring, Bandini

Fiction. John Fante recalls his first novel, recently republished by Black Sparrow Press: "Now that I am an old man I cannot look back upon WAIT UNTIL SPRING, BANDINI without… Continue Reading Posted in: American Literature, Colorado, Contemporary American Fiction, Fiction, Italian American Families

Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness

Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness was a paperback collection of short stories by Charles Bukowski, first published by City Lights Publishers in 1972.[1] It was the… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction

A Fraction of the Whole

An irreverent comic adventure, spanning three continents, about a father and son against each other and against the world.For most of his life, Jasper Dean couldn’t decide whether to pity,… Continue Reading Posted in: Australian, Australian Fiction, Authors

South of No North

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