Recent content by Sean Maher

Amiri Baraka gets lost in his own ass sometimes, and a lot of his performance-style poems don't work on paper when he's trying to write how jazz music sounds, but when he gets down and dirty he's got a death-grip on your guts like Buk at his angry best: Of course, I'm a great lover of the...

Personally, I think Factotum and Pulp are his worst books. I enjoyed Post Office quite a bit, but. Try Ham on Rye for the story of his childhood - lots of good humanity in that one, both humor and pathos. Hollywood is hysterical every time I read it - it's the story of how the movie Barfly got...

I met Harold Norse in a bookstore here in San Francisco several years ago. He struck me as, overall, a pain in the ass, though I gifted him a book by Steven Jesse Bernstein (the introduction to a book by whom introduced me to Bukowski) just to get the man's work seen by a "known" author.

Anybody have a preferred English translation of Celine's Journey to the End of the Night? Mine is by Ralph Manheim and I never got interested enough to work through more than 50 or 60 pages, though I'd be happy to reconsider since I still own it.

Thanks for the link, Emku, but I'm looking for a broader discussion; not just recommendations from Buk himself, from from his fans on this board who've read and enjoyed stuff beyond his work.

Bukowski's lead me to many great writers, be it through his own writing about other writers or friends of mine who dig his stuff and drop new books on me. I start this thread partly to share my own discoveries, but mostly looking for new writers that I can check out. Celine I found a little...