mjp
Founding member
Hemingway yep - but only when he was dead and only the posthumous stuff. Never heard of anyone going through The Old Man and The Sea and snipping the ends of the sentences.Buk said it himself (paraphrasing) "Do you think Hemingway or Camus had this problem?"
The evidence suggests that the butchery began immediately, with the first collection that was put together after Bukowski's death, Bone Palace Ballet, and was in full swing by the following book, What Matters Most.These edits of Bukowski's work [...] Probably it began as a good, and helpful thing: "I'll just clean up the typos..." but quickly hurtled into this horrific situation we see today.