Recent content by The Boy in a Well

"Barfly" is the ultimate Henry Chinaski movie. I feel like there needs to be more disconnect between Bukowski and his work, because he did write fiction. And let's not forget that his novels, unlike his poetry, were largely written when his 'seedy past' was already far behind him. I wouldn't...

Is the Dylan, Ginsberg and Bukowski photo real or not?

I'm still amazed when this user ID is actually taken at face-value by people, as if anyone would log in to a website with the name "I'm only a boy, don't take anything I say seriously because I lack life experience." And the vaginal reference is lost on so many.

Brilliant! Who would have thought that?!

A letter from the 60s? And further references? Trivial facts, no...? But I suppose you aren't hurting anyone else.

Well! When I found this site, I needed to sign up - I read all the Buk that I can, and well, his work is probably the second important literary discovery of my life (after Norton Juster's "The Phantom Tollbooth;" clearly, I read that as a child).