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Way out of what one associates with Bukowski but... I read Don Quixote for the first time early last year. I also recently re-read Notes, and Bukowski mentions Cervantes passingly in the column about moving to New York when he was young, but as far as I can recall that's the only mention of him...

Thanks everyone for the answers, specially woody9six for tracking down the source. Never read Kundera before, so i wouldn't have guessed.

Hi everyone! Recently ran into an image with a supposed Bukowski quote? Sounds like something he would've said, but I looked for it here and couldn't find anything and all Google throws up are images with the quote but no mention of where it comes from. Quote goes something like this: "And...

Whoa! Been a while since I’ve been here. Thought of posting a few times in the past, but life has taken me to strange places, as it often does, over the past couple years, keeping me busy in the process. Anyways, shoutout as always to Hannah for creating this forum in the first place, and to...

Thanks for bringing the forum back! To be honest, I used to check in on the formun every once in a while just to see if anybody had taken over the domain, so this came as a more than pleasant surprise.

Finally getting around to reading Gorky. All I can say so far is Bukowski never lets me down with his recommendations (except maybe with Lawrence).

Here are some of my favorites that fit that style and a place to start with each of them: Dan Fante (Chump Change) Fernanda Melchor (Season of Hurracaines) Irvine Welsh (Trainspotting) Raymond Carver (What We Talk About When We Talk About Love) Pedro Juan Gutierrez (Dirty Habana Trilogy)...

First of all, whatever the reason for closing it down may be, thanks Hannah for everything you’ve done with the forum, and thanks to anyone else who may have contributed as well. I know there’s still some time before the party is over, but I just wanted to express how grateful I am that I was...

That one I had actually already read before, but it was a long time ago so I wanted to give it another whirl. I remembered loving the themes discussed in the book, but do having some problems with the art. What interested me about this edition is that it fixes some of the issues with the...

I agree. In fact, I think the topics both Bukowski and Camus deal with are very similar in matter. The approach is what differentiates them. I started The Myth of Sisyphs first but now I'm leaving it for last and I'm probably going to read it twice, since I really want to take my time to get a...

So it had been a few weeks since I had read anything (partly because I just didn’t want to, partly because of daily life), but I got trigger happy with my money all of a sudden and decided to buy a little bit of everything. I've been jumping back and forth between all of them (which is and...