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    Would You Suggest Writing as a Career?

    interesting thread. as to the 8 year old comment. i'm going to guess that was a comment specifically for the hustler audience and moreso a comment on the idea that the interviewer would even ask it. btw - can't find where it was posted, should go on this thread. i downloaded then read a...
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    You Don't Know What Love Is (an evening with Charles Bukowski) by Raymond Carver

    the carver thing is interesting. can't recall first seeing it? didn't think it to be flattering. sort of a polaroid, but in a way that says, this is what i see, but don't turn the camera back at me. which is still far more honest than most of carver's stature in literature said. or should...
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    When did you discover Bukowski?

    another student in a sophomore college creative writing class said to me that he liked bukowski's novels but not his poems. and there was only the two at the time, i think. anyhow, i didn't know who bukowski was and something about how the guy said it made me think it was a put down of the...
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    Factotum - the movie

    the reviewers were not kind here in pdx. i have to say i just couldn't go see this with the piff (portland international film festival) audience. i will wait for it because i don't prefer the film festival crowd here. about everything sells out and in my view more because people are into the...
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    Was Bukowski bisexual?

    my take is. like the martin mull song. 'and as far as that time in the bus station goes, i'm everything that he was'. (i'm everyone i've ever loved is the song title)
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