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...On page 184 of "VISCERAL BUKOWSKI" we see a photograph of Buk's mother's death certificate. Buk's mom's mom is called Nanatte Israel. Is Pleasants' inclusion of this piece of documentation an example of him "not knowing his ass from his elbow"? I would remind all of you that wishful...

ha! too bad Pleasants isn't around... or is he? ;)

Oh come on, Pleasants doesn't know his ass from his elbow, anyone can see that.

None of you even attempted to answer the original poster's question. Was Bukowski's maternal grandmother Jewish? Pleasants says she was and shows us a headstone in Germany and an L.A. death certifcate as proof.

Hitler may have been sired by a Jewish man and Bukowski's maternal grandmother, according to evidence supplied by Pleasants, was named Israel. Only Pleasants seems to get all excited over this "fact". Does it matter? More discussion and revelations are needed to get to the bottom of this...

the beatscene was my first source of info on b. the tribute issues were/are a joy. i'm looking forward to the pleasants/richmond interview. thanks, bill! i've seen the trailer for born and it did strike me how pale and gaunt steve richmond looked, but i put that down to not having seen a...

Hi, I just spoke with Ben Pleasants. He has an interview with Steve Richmond in the upcomming Beat Scene. Some interesting talk of the old days with Bukowski. Things that were taken out of "Spinning Off Bukowski". Steve is apparently in very very poor health (as he has been for a long time...

...Schenker Neeli Cherry (Real Person) E. Rosenthal Bukowski (Real Person) Tony Quagliano (Real Person) Al Masarik (Real Person) Ben Pleasants (Real Person) A. C. Winkler Steve Richmond (Real Person) The other names do seem fictitious. Was the rumor that Buk and Neeli wrote poems...

...Engel Roger Margolis Donald Schenker Neeli Cherry (Real Person) E. Rosenthal Bukowski (Real Person) Tony Quagliano Al Masarik (Real Person) Ben Pleasants (Real Person) A. C. Winkler Steve Richmond (Real Person) Can anyone else help clear some of these names as real people? Bill

just noticed in Sounes, chapter 10, it mentions that Buk's friendm Ben Pleasants was working on a biography, but abandoned it. I think that someone else mentioned Ben as being Tom the biographer. I think that the mystery is solved.... BIll

...of coffee and who was about to write a bio on B, but B wrote him off in a poem -how unexpected!- and the bio never materialized. any idea as to who this Tom guy was? Maybe Ben Pleasants? Richmond??? I'm a bit slow today, so maybe is someone really obvious, but I just can't figure out who...

The book Linda really hated was Ben Pleasants' Visceral Bukowski. I wrote a little blab about it in the San Pedro blog over a year ago: http://laharbor.blogspot.com/2005/04/envy-is-dog-from-hell.html

...Friendship, Fame & Bestial Myth - 1981 Gerald Locklin - Charles Bukowski: A Sure Bet - 1996 Steve Richmond - Spinning Off Bukowski - 1996 A.D. Winans - The Charles Bukowski/Second Coming Years - 1996 John Thomas - Bukowski In The Bathtub - 1997 Ben Pleasants - Visceral Bukowski - 2004

yeah, this was published in 1940. It's taken from B. Pleasants' Visceral Bukowski. You can read the whole story there. According to Pleasants, the letter to the editor "reads as a short-story", and B said he published another one, but it wasn't "as good". He signs the letter as Henry Bukowski...

I don't think he FELT he was a Nazi, even if Pleasants claims the opposite throughout his Visceral book. I believe he enjoyed himself quite a lot playing the Nazi role for a while for different reasons.

...I know. Got mine from Amazon. It's a well-documented bio with acceptable doses of academic jargon. nice reading. and thankfully short. pleasants' book disappointed me. I expected more powerful stories, but I found most of them pretty lame. I know he can do better, just take a look at the...

I read the Miles bio, but I can't even remember it, so it must not have stood out of the crowd. Of the recent bios I thought Ben Pleasants' Visceral Bukowski was a good read. He seemed a bit hung up on hammering home the "Bukowski was a Nazi" point, which I think would have made just as much of...

"When Bukowski was a Nazi" (I think these are excerpts from the book "Visceral Bukowski), by B. Pleasants: http://www.hollywoodinvestigator.com/2003/bukowski1.htm "The Man Who Shot Charles Bukowski": http://salon.com/people/feature/2000/06/15/bukowski/index.html Chris Hodenfield...