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Hi, anybody interested in a special numerotated issue (150 copies) on a very nice paper of my « An Evening at Buk's Place » ? Beat Scene Press just published this special « chapbook » (44 pages, with a series of 5 photos I took of Buk and Linda at the end of this memorable evening I spent with...

Great ! (to have asked her again).

Good quote, and I agree. But as all quotes (and almost everything we can say), it's only partly true I think. I mean, in such a case, it's probably no more trustable to ask anyone in the world... It's the same with aphorisms, etc: all « truths» are generally only partial (except maybe scientific...

The best solution. The one Bukowski would probably like and choose.

Well, I fear you might be right. I've no real evidence about who took the photos... If I remember well, bak in 1997, it's Kevin Ring, the editor of Beat Scene Magazine, who gave me the phone number of Joan (he had published that photo in Beat Scene). Joan was credited. I'm sure he didn't know...

Ok, I read the entire posts on the forum. I wouldn't put my hand in the fire to choose whether it's Joan or Ulvis who took the photos. Let it be.

Thank you for this topic, but I don't think it's right, although I was not myself at Bukowski's place when the photos were taken. However, I was personally and directly in contact in 1997 (when I wrote the first French edition of the book) with Joan Levine Gannij, who lived then in Amsterdam...

Hi Zobraks. I just read for the first time your comment on my book « Bukowski and the Beats » (Sun Dog Press). Many thanks for what you say about it, I guess you liked it, both the essay and the interview with Bukowski. You say there are « a few slips however». But, as you suggest at the end of...

I'b be glad to get directly in touch with you. If that's ok, my email address is : [email protected]

I'm the author of « Bukowski and the Beats » published by Sun Dog Press in 2002 (translated from the French « Bukowski et les Beats», Paris, Michalon, 1998, revised and augmented 2014), translated into Italian, German, Czech, Turkish. Writer of some other books like « Kerouac et la Beat...