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…
It just seems fitting that Robert Crumb and Charles Bukowski would find themselves working together at some point. In the 1980s, they joined forces in the two Bukowski books, Bring Me Your Love and There’s No Business. Crumbs most famous works include his Keep On Truckin’ strip, and strips featuring characters such as the bohemian…
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…
Ever hear of Oscar “Zeta” Acosta? Maybe you know him better as Dr. Gonzo in Hunter S. Thompson’s 1971 book, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. In life, Acosta was a Mexican-American attorney, author and activist in the Chicano Movement in Southern California. Acosta wrote somewhat semi-autobiographical novels about himself, as well as appearing with…
“Fear and Loathing in the Graveyard of the Weird: The Banshee Screams for Buffalo Meat” – Oscar Zeta Ascota by Hunter S. Thompson, Rolling Stone, 1977. The basis for the movie Where the Buffalo Roam. Requiem for a Crazed Heavyweight . . . An Unfinished Memoir on the Life and Doom of Oscar Zeta Acosta,…
Talk about your SHORT stories! The Truth About Sancho Panza by Franz Kafka was first published in 1931, seven years after the author’s death. While classified by some as a short story, it is in fact what is known as a parable. In Spanish, a Sancho is a sidekick, while Panza refers to a man’s…
The Huntress by Sofia Samatar is one of our favorites… For fear of the huntress the city closed like an eye. Only my window stayed open, because, as a foreigner, I didn’t know better. In the morning, poor children would scrub the stains from the roofs. Now the rain-dark head came down and rested on…
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,…
They called him Dyno Dave. Dave dyno-tuned classic cars, analyzing the roar of metal on metal, listening for imperfections only he could hear. His ear was perfect, like a conductor overseeing an orchestra, detecting a sour note from a stray violin. But Dave didn’t wear protection, and the ceaseless volume macheted a forest of cochlear…
Two weeks ago, Abe Moscowitz dropped dead of a heart attack and was reincarnated as a lobster. Trapped off the coast of Maine, he was shipped to Manhattan and dumped into a tank at a posh Upper East Side seafood restaurant. In the tank there were several other lobsters, one of whom recognized him. “Abe,…
