If anyone can find the original ms of "The Crunch" it is you!
I thought John Martin was the "good guy?" Did Bukowski have any problems with him - or just some readers who knew what was actually going on?Whenever John Martin stuck his limp, wannabe writer dick into Bukowski's work, the result was never good. You can see it and feel it - the cheap creative writing class veneer of shit. It's obvious and it's ugly. Like Martin himself.
Now that is really interesting to me; because I had no idea any of Bukowski's stuff had actually been changed; I was under the admittedly somewhat naive impression that Martin strictly printed what Buk wrote; as in literally publisher-only. Is there a list of things known to have been altered by Martin, text-wise? I'll have to find that thread Bospress was referring to...Martin thinks it's funny, I'm told, that people even care about changes to Bukowski's work. But the real joke is that he thought he was qualified to change a word. He clearly was not, and his attitude that "it doesn't matter anyway" tells you everything you need to know about him and his relationship to - and respect for - Bukowski's work.