Recent content by Thin Man Elroy

You could be right but I meant it in the sense of his amazing, mind-blowing power of withstanding hardship or stress and becoming a great writer in the process and in his own defiant way. But I could have phrased it better.

Buk is my favorite transgressive writer who, in the course and sometimes eloquent street language of Los Angeles, wrote sympathetically of the marginalized, desperate lives of drunks, prostitutes, addicts, poor working people, and petty criminals. He endured alcoholism, poverty, and rejection...