The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories
Author: Charles Bukowski
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 realist writers….Read More
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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
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)
South of No North
South of No North contains some of Bukowski's best work. Among the short stories collected in the book are Love for $17.50, about a man named Robert whose infatuation with… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Manners And Customs, Short Stories, Short Stories In English 1900 Texts
The Western Lands
The Road to the Western Lands is by definition the most dangerous road in the world, for it is a journey beyond Death, beyond the basic God standard of Fear… Continue Reading Posted in: English Fiction, Immortality, United States
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
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
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
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
The Proud Highway
The Proud Highway is the first in an anticipated three- volume collection of the letters of Hunter S. Thompson. It includes letters spanning a 12-year period, during which time Thompson… Continue Reading Posted in: Hunter S, Journalism, Thompson
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
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
Pulp
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… Continue Reading Posted in: Dark Humor, Detective And Mystery Stories Gsafd, Hard-Boiled Mystery, Suspense Fiction
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
The Children of Dynmouth
The Children Of Dynmouth - a classic prize-winning novel by William Trevor,,Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain.,,The 1970s was a decade of anger and discontent.… Continue Reading Posted in: Cultural, Fiction, Literary Fiction
Tales of Ordinary Madness
Inspired by D.H. Lawrence, Chekhov and Hemingway, Bukowski's writing is passionate, extreme and has attracted a cult following, while his life was as weird and wild as the tales he… Continue Reading Posted in: American Fiction Anthologies, Fiction, Short Stories, Social Life And Customs, Subculture
Women
Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereLow-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his… Continue Reading Posted in: Alcoholics, Black Humor (Literature), Classic American Literature, Dark Humor, Psychological Fiction
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