Fling May 1971 Vol 14, No. 2: Here's to Jimmy Davenport (1 Viewer)

[Pogue Mahone]

Good Evening Fellow Sub Normals,
It's not often we get an uncollected short story around here, so I hope you can appreciate the effort (and $). Plus, we also get one of those somewhat-early Buk autobiographies.

I checked with David and this one will not be in his forthcoming Mathematics collection. He seemed to think this might have been part of a novel-in-progress. If anyone has more details, this thread will benefit. In the meantime, read on and enjoy... and remember that I am not a complete ass, some of the time...

 

[mjp]

He seemed to think this might have been part of a novel-in-progress.

It doesn't read that way to me, but what do I know.

Bukowski did start a novel in 1971, tentatively titled, The Poet, but I don't see how that fits with this. This feels very "stand-alone" to me.

 

[zobraks]

In the meantime, read on and enjoy... and remember that I am not a complete ass, some of the time...

Pogue, you made my day... I'm still laughing. :D

 

[Johannes]

Thanks for sharing Pogue!

But this story - minus title and bio - is in Notes of a Dirty Old Man, p. 51. So it's a column. It apparently got republished in this Fling issue, since Notes came out in '69?

 

[zobraks]

This particular column was first published in Open City #58, June 28-July 4, 1968.

 

[mjp]

I'm always the last to know.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

Can someone move the thread? Thanks for the corrections, gents. Did it have a title in either appearances?

 

[zobraks]

Did it have a title in either appearances?

No, it didn't.

the magazine:

the book:

 

[Pogue Mahone]

That's what's tricky about some of these. I need to re-read the City Lights books. I had to give them a 5 year break because I had read them too much. Thanks again...