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Read it today. No much mind blowing stuff there, but enjoyed it all the same. A worthy addition I reckon. And I loved the cover.

Readable.

I've read all Fante's books and 86'd is possibly the best yet. http://monkey-picks.blogspot.com/2009/11/86d-by-dan-fante.html

"Locked In The Arms of A Crazy Life" by Howard Sounes, I thought very good. Barry Miles' "Charles Bukowski" was as lazy as the title.

Cheers for all your thoughts. Wasn't expecting a nailed-on answer just looking for some prime suspects. Thanks again.

Wonder if anyone can help with a question about "pacific telephone" from Love Is A Dog From Hell? It starts with "you go for these wenches, she said". I'm interested in who that "she" might be. The carbon from Buk's typewriter is dated 11-1-76. I know he met Linda Lee Beighle 9-29-76 so...

I just finished reading "Digging The Vein" by Terry O'Neill (Wrecking Ball Press). One of the best accounts of drug addition I've come across. Written in a way Bukowski admirers would probably appreciate. Highly recommend it. And been listening to Percy Sledge, Camera Obscura, The Monks...

A bit late with this, but a belated happy birthday. I don't post much but do regularly keep an eye on this site and like it a lot. Keep on keeping on.

Ah, bless ya.

I've read all Dan Fante's stuff and whilst I enjoyed Chump Change, Mooch and the others, the best for me is Short Dog (or, to give it it's UK - and better - title Corksucker. Whilst more obviously fiction it somehow seemed more natural. And the passage about fat people was hilarious.

Good call. Scrub that!

I tried (and missed out) on those Neil Young tickets. Saw a setlist of one of his recent shows; gutted. As someone said, Hammersmith is relatively central and easy to reach on the tube wherever you are in London. Although I was born there I wouldn't recommend you stay there; it's a bit of...

Thanks for those links Ponder. I hadn't read "...Tough Motherfucker" before (although remember reading about that cat in Buk's letters) - isn't it a beauty? Will search out a copy of "War All The Time" to get it. Thanks again.

I first came across Buk in Beat Scene magazine - probably around 1991. I was strictly a traditional beat merchant and it used to piss me off seeing this Charles Bukowski character sending in his shite poems about his cats and stuff. Eventually I took the bull by the horns and read Post...

Hoegaarden. But the good folk of Newcastle won't be too happy to hear you lot refer to their beer as New Castle Brown Ale. They're quite proud of it.