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Your point that physical books are being destroyed to train AI is valid: https://fortune.com/2026/07/31/dutch-bookseller-ai-spam-phishing-3000-book-copies-scan-destroy/ But I'm pretty damn sure that Marvin Malone would be honored and pleased that Wormwood is available to all. I'm a bookseller...

Thanks for the advice, but unless you're a highly functional alcoholic yourself, it's like a virgin telling someone how to fuck.

With Waits I just got tired of music for arts sake, but I love most of his catalog (Nighthawks the most). Shane's another one, but I like his entire catalog. I don't know if it's the same album, but I heard Springsteen do a cover of Rainy Night in SOHO recently. I almost switched the channel...

I can understand why this one is uncollected, but it's worth a read. Including ads for Confessions, Earth Books, Cold Dogs, Border Book (never came out) and Poems Written (did not end up being published by Mad Virgin).

One of his best early poems. At the time he was probably the only one who knew he was writing about his father.

Honestly, Waits has done nothing but piss me off since Get Behind the Mile. Does the world really need yet another Oompa Loompa song or whatever he passes off as music these days. Check out he and Yoko's latest abortion: https://www.reddit.com/r/tomwaits/s/kpFs7T9n0a

Here's another Buk/Waits intersection from my virgin year on the forum. I was a lot like hankfan back then, just a little more subnormal: https://bukowskiforum.com/threads/waits-and-buk.7593/

Just sold this one, so posting

It was a more wholesome country back then. You could marry your 13 year old cousin... you still can where I live.

No argument there. I've never heard of James Ellroy, thanks for dropping the name.

Let's not say Bukowski "endured alcoholism" in the sense that it was some kind of limitation. When it comes to Bukowski and alcohol, endurance means the ability to be an alcoholic while holding a full-time job and never giving up on being a full-time writer. "Endurance is more important than...

Here are a couple of advertisements for Open City benefit readings held in Los Angeles and New York to help the paper fight its obscenity charge for publishing Jack Micheline's story "Skinny Dynamite" in the September 26, 1968, issue of Renaissance, A Magazine of the Arts #2. Bukowski edited...

Another invaluable archive https://www.jstor.org/site/reveal-digital/independent-voices/nolaexpress-27953698/?so=item_title_str_asc

It's great you want to contribute. I have 2 years of SQL experience on my resume and I don't even know what it is. But Trevor might.

I just pretend to be a moderator. Zobraks is the brains of the outfit.