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"But you know, the terror is always there, man. The ugliness is always there. There's no way out. You can get a beautiful woman living with you and she can be more ugly than putting your quarter into a newspaper stand, lifting it up and taking out the next day's news. There's never any escape...

I haven't been to Mexico, but yeah, in every other sense you could say I've "been there".

Absolutely. I'm so glad to see someone point this out. He worked hard at his craft despite what the "spontaneous prose" concept would have people believe, but some parts of On the Road feel like unrevised journal entries and seem very dated. Revolutionary, but dated in a way that Bukowski and...

That story is obviously fiction, but sometimes you run across one that is realistic enough to make you wonder. I'm reading "More Notes of a Dirty Old Man" now and there's a story in it in which Buk. mugs and nearly kills a few people. It starts with him drinking in a bar and getting into a...

I find that disappointing because I love Barfly and think Mickey gave an excellent performance. But I kinda knew he had lukewarm feelings about Buk. after seeing him talk about the writing dismissively on Inside the Actor's Studio. Then again actor's aren't paid to think.

Thank you very much, Hank.

Let me try to reach through the fog of chemical damage and remember here... 1.Browsed "Run with the Hunted". Good start. 2.Women 3.Post Office- drank one of my first beers as a teenager reading this, and laughed my ass off all the way through. 4.Ham on Rye 5.Factotum 6.Notes of a Dirty Old...

I don't know about that. Kerouac was born in 1922 and he was all about bebop. Then there's Fitzgerald and the 20's, the Jazz Generation. I just think that Bukowski was more of a 19th century personality: Think of the great German composers that he wrote about so often in the same context as the...

Greetings, everyone. Long time lurker first time poster. I've used this place a source for my required Bukowski fix for years so I felt it was about time to join up. Quick summary: I got into Bukowski at 16 after reading an interview with Kurt Cobain where he named his favorite authors as...

There are two ways to answer that. First to mention writers who wrote like Bukowski, influenced him or dealt with similar subject matter. Then there are the authors who were completely different stylistically and whom he sometimes even slagged off publicly, but you find fringe "counterculture"...