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I think Hollywood and also Locked in the Arms... talk about him going to a favorite restaurant and drinking quite a nice dry Riesling and drinking imported beer. Doesn't he drink Heineken in the film where he's interviewed in his home in San Pedro? (Sorry the name escapes me) I think he moved...

Sometimes his sentences form patterns over the course of an entire book....individual sentences or passages may only become comprehensible or completed later in the text. He was known to switch from one narrative to another very abruptly even in his non-cutup stuff. In his last trilogy, his...

Roni, there you go. I'd be happy to do it, but copyright is copyright, and I don't want to endanger the forum, certainly not against mjp's recommendation. I could scan an article for you. PM me if you're still interested. Contributors are: Ernest Fontana, Jimmie E. Cain, Jr., Jack Saunders...

Roni, I didn't see this until now, sorry. For scanning, I'd be up for it. I'd like MJP's opinion first, however.

A few years back Maja asked if anyone had a copy of The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 5 No. 3 (Fall, 1985). As far as I can tell no one else has mentioned it (I'm probably wrong). I gifted a copy to a pal a few years back and when he moved to Vietnam last year he gave me all his books...

Yes, the northern states are also cowboy-like. I spent two months in Nuevo Leon. Tiny place called Zaragosa. Bottles of beer cost a quarter (US). That place was pretty mellow. On another trip I went to Chihuahua, and started drinking at a big place with lots of hookers and that tension you...

You're in Israel! You can hang out in places so old it boggles the mind!

I've travelled a lot in Mexico. I think over three trips I spent about year there. North, south, east, and west. I like DF a lot. I liked it all a lot, great people, but drinking can be hairy. Do you agree? Mexican campesinos often get crazy drunk, I mean, passing out at the bar drunk, spend...

I come from the "new south". My experiences in Philly, New York, and other older American cities, yeah, the corner bar is an institution. Tampa was chock full of bars, not corner bars because the urban landscape is different. Driving is much more imperative. I left Tampa in 94 but I still...

Which border is that? Mexico? I admit I'm no expert on his life, despite reading some bios, I always forget about his time in Philly. He never drank in Pedro? Kind of surprising he never stopped by a place on the way home. I suppose the "Buk drank here" is the LA equivalent of "Washington...

Once a week ain't bad!

Yeah, I suppose "dive" has a bad connotation, but a lot of these were just what I'm talking about. Raggedy places, usually named after the founder, and often called a "lounge". All of 'em at the beginning probably pretty snazzy. MJP, not exactly a kid anymore. I get your point, for me they...

No. Any good?

Hi Eden. Welcome. I'm not here very often. I go through cycles where Buk goes off my radar for a while then I watch Born Into This or read one of his books and lurk about the site, usually with a specific question or answer, though I recently ventured into the anything goes section with a...

I realize my answer was not exactly what you asked, but glad you appreciated it. As far as finding one's voice, I felt like I had it once I'd stopped looking for it. Bukowski's epitaph, once again. "Don't Try." So you write poetry and prose?