After decades of failure, Charles Bukowski — an alcoholic, womanizer and man who Time magazine described as the “laureate of American lowlife” finally got his big break. He was already 50 years old and most people would have called it quits by then. Not Buk. While old by any standards, by this time Bukowski had…
Bop Bop Against That Curtain by Charles Bukowski is from the fall 1975 issue of Arcade, The Comics Review #3, complete with Robert Crumb illustrations. Both underground legends from the 60s and beyond, Bukowski and Crumb did not collaborate much, but when they did it was explosive. Some say the character Mr. Natural was even…
YOU AND YOUR BEER AND HOW GREAT YOU ARE by Charles Bukowski Enjoy… Jack came through the door and found the pack of cigarettes on the mantle. Ann was on the couch reading a copy of Cosmopolitan. Jack lit up, sat down in a chair. It was ten minutes to midnight. “Charley told you not to…
Released in 1995 and directed by Richard Sears, An Evil Town was a big winner both at Cannes and the New York Underground Film Festival. The short film is based on the story of the same name by Charles Bukowski. Buk is also credited as a screenwriter on the film. Watch the film on YouTube.com.…
A Radio With Guts is one of Bukowski’s best and most obscure poems … it was on the 2nd floor on Coronado Street I used to get drunk and throw the radio through the window while it was playing, and, of course, it would break the glass in the window and the radio would sit…
In Life in a Texas Whorehouse by Charles Bukowski, the author opens with, “I got off the bus in this place in Texas and it was cold and I was constipated.” Eventually, in just a few days, he manages a bowel movement: “I went back to the hotel, got hold of a pint of whiskey and…
There are a lot of great Bukowski quotes, but we particularly like this one. Bukowski wrote novels, short story collections and poetry. Check out his books at Amazon.com See more Charles Bukowski right here on Flashbytes… Charles Bukowski is one of America’s most outrageous authors of poetry and prose, and, many would claim,…
it was a hot night in Tony’s. you didn’t even think of fucking. just drink cool beer. Tony coasted a couple down to me and Indian Mike, and Mike had the money out. I let him buy the first round. Tony rang it up, bored, looked around – 5 or six others staring into their…
An Evil Town by Charles Bukowski, whereby Frank Evans, a balanced man, moves from town to town. Time and again he is shocked by the perversity he sees around him. When his privacy is again threatened, this time by a hotel clerk, he loses control. We love almost everything by Buk, whether it be fiction,…
God, she thought lying in bed naked and re-reading Aldington’s Portrait of a Genius, But… he’s an impostor! Not D.H. Lawrence, but her husband-Henry-with his bauble of a belly and all the hair he never combed and the way he stood around in his shorts, and the way he stood naked before the window like…
