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I run pubs and seriously considered having a Bukowski themed pub/bar. I eventually came to the conclusion it's something Bukowski would have hated.

Welcome! Looking forward to seeing the Buk tat.

My Order My order for what it's worth: Post Office Women Factotum Ham on Rye It worked well for me!

Because I have particular affection for that novel.

Roddy Doyle on Women In fact this part of the introduction interested me most: Then I read Women(1978). The women in Bukowski's books are mean and devious, sex-mad and lazy, just like the men. They are often just parts of the body. Betty, Hank's girlfriend, or 'shackjob', in Post Office, is...

It's taken a while... ...for this thread to get going.

LAWSTER AS BUK!

I love the organic turkey story in Women: "That poor organic turkey had a rough Christmas."

Link http://www.canongate.net/News/DoyleOnBukowski

I thought it was a bizzare choice of writer to do the intro. I was quite interested because he reveals his dislike of Bukowski's 'Women' in it.

What do people here make of Roddy Doyle's Introduction to Ham On Rye?

Update I have finally got this on DVD but unfortunately it has a time code bar running on the top middle of the screen throughout. Still watchable if not the perfect print I was hoping for. I'll look into burning some copies for those interested.

I don't know how hard it is to get hold of but it appears that I have been able to obtain (via a TV director friend) a legitimate copy of BOOKMARK: Ordinary Madness of Charles Bukowski (1995). This documentary left a big impression on me at the time and I'm looking forward to revisiting it. It's...

I recieved the book as a present from somebody who knows my admiration of Charles Bukowski. The story centres aound an aspiring writer's survival in the early eighties East Village, New York. More tales of urban desperation basically...

Just finished reading The Fuck-Up by Arthur Nersesian. Would be interested to hear if others on this site have read it and what they thought.