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That is a rare, amazing collectible. Congratulations.

Bukowski was a big fan of the L.A. Rams football team. He loved going to boxing matches at the Olympic Auditorium downtown. In one of his books of letters in the early 1960s there are numerous references to co-workers getting excited about the LA Dodgers (they were good then) and how he hated...

My girl just found 9 Richmond books in a box in our garage - I recall now that I sold the ones with Buk contributions on eBay to pay the rent in 1999. Been immersed in these for a few hours Good stuff. Good stuff.

It went to the dumpsters. I told my brother some of Richmond's archives were worth a lot of money (again, after the fact) and he said that most of it was in terrible condition (downside of living near the beach). Similar thing happened after Buk died, they filled a dumpster of mostly unopened...

About 15 years ago, Richmond had abandoned his beach house on Hollister for a mansion (it might have been inherited) and he threw EVERYTHING out. So much for Bukowski Inc.'s being complicit in any "cover up." My brother and my uncle hauled dumpster after dumpster of magazines, books and...

Mike Daily Mike interviewed me thoroughly for something that was no more than two or three paragraphs. A real professional, I was impressed with his very professional process.

Go lose money at the track and his horse-racing poems come alive. (based on anecdotal, yet extensive personal research)

"The nine-to-five is one of the greatest atrocities sprung upon mankind. You give your life away to a function that doesn't interest you. This situation so repelled me that I was driven to drink, starvation, and mad females, simply as an alternative."

Okay ... I like this list ... Can we wager in which direction the arrows will point ten years from now? Pound may go the way of Thurber... Just sayin'

Bored? YEZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

When Steve Richmond moved out of his pad on Hollister in Santa Monica, he threw EVERYTHING away, books, letters, even Wormwood Reviews. The only thing I think he kept was his OWN archives and his Gagaku recordings. He is, last I heard, on a "Bukowski Sabbatical" (that was only broken for Sounes...

It looks like the paper in the typewriter is a letter, as the top line appears to be a salutation.

The unpardonable sin of affordable rent.

My name is Mat Gleason, I am a Bukowski aficionado, I once got drunk with Hank and his wife Linda in San Pedro, I had an art gallery and hosted a Michael Montfort exhibition of Bukowski photographs. Hank's writing still resonates with truth and beauty after all these years.