First piece of writing Bukowski ever published - Letter to 'The Cubby Hole' 1940 (1 Viewer)

[cirerita]

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 :cool:

 

[HenryChinaski]

very nice...so wait...."Aftermath..." wasn't his first piece ever published?

well maybe that was his big time hit with story magazine.

 

[hank solo]

well that just looks like a letter from some guy at college to a college paper.

not exactly the literarrrrry debut i was expecting when i clicked the ever-so-promising thread link...

;)

 

[mjp]

Aftermath is the first published literarrrrry work.

https://web.archive.org/web/2020/https://bukowski.net/poems/aftermath.php

His first published interview is interesting too:

https://web.archive.org/web/2020/https://bukowski.net/poems/int-first.php

 

[HenryChinaski]

yeah that's a good interview