jddougher
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I am savoring this one: The captain is out to lunch. I provide the link because I already have a copy and your storming Amazon won't affect me. :wb:
I just love reading Buk's "diary" from 1991. It's such a rare treasure, especially knowing that he died just a few years later. I hate the fact that it's so short, though. Knowing this makes me put the book down frequently, not wanting to finish it too quickly. Are there any other books like this?
The other one I'm really grooving on: The night torn mad with footsteps
Holy cow, what a bunch of gems.
What are your favorites of the moment?
Stupidly, many years ago, I sold my entire Buk collection. Now I'm repurchasing all of those books. Unfortunately, they are all put out by Ecco now. Kind of a bummer, since the feel of the covers is just not the same. I get the hardbacks whenever I can, but usually these are not available at a reasonable price.
I still have a couple of written interviews with Buk that have never seen the light of day. I'm going to release them. I'm just not sure how best to do it.
Long ago, Gargoyle published a condensed version of the interview I did with Carl Weissner, Bukowski's German translator and friend. I never really got over being pissed about how that was published, since the editor of Gargoyle for some egotistical reason decided to attribute all of my questions to "G," meaning Gargoyle, the name of the magazine. Imagine this: You spend literally months interviewing Weissner (in Germany, where he lived), typing up the results, going back and forth with him about what gets released, giving one particular magazine the option to publish this exclusively, and then that magazine, in essence, writes you out of the credit! Disgusting. Bukowski was so right when he railed against the literary establishment or wannabes, most of them being self-aggrandizing slugs.
Hopefully the editor of that magazine reads this and apologizes. It was a really crappy thing to do to (at that time) a starving student trying to build a name for himself. Heck, my name on that interview was barely visible, thanks to the design. I did not do that interview "for Gargoyle," nor did I give "paycock press" or Richard Peabody the right to attribute my questions to "Gargoyle." I was never asked about this, and I was completely stunned when I saw "G" on the questions rather than my own name.
And guess what I got from Gargoyle for that interview? Contributor's copies! LOL.
I'm sure Bukowski himself could have written a few choice poems about that editor.
Getting ready to publish some add-on interviews from the one I published on PoetryCircle, by the way. Stay tuned.
I just love reading Buk's "diary" from 1991. It's such a rare treasure, especially knowing that he died just a few years later. I hate the fact that it's so short, though. Knowing this makes me put the book down frequently, not wanting to finish it too quickly. Are there any other books like this?
The other one I'm really grooving on: The night torn mad with footsteps
Holy cow, what a bunch of gems.
What are your favorites of the moment?
Stupidly, many years ago, I sold my entire Buk collection. Now I'm repurchasing all of those books. Unfortunately, they are all put out by Ecco now. Kind of a bummer, since the feel of the covers is just not the same. I get the hardbacks whenever I can, but usually these are not available at a reasonable price.
I still have a couple of written interviews with Buk that have never seen the light of day. I'm going to release them. I'm just not sure how best to do it.
Long ago, Gargoyle published a condensed version of the interview I did with Carl Weissner, Bukowski's German translator and friend. I never really got over being pissed about how that was published, since the editor of Gargoyle for some egotistical reason decided to attribute all of my questions to "G," meaning Gargoyle, the name of the magazine. Imagine this: You spend literally months interviewing Weissner (in Germany, where he lived), typing up the results, going back and forth with him about what gets released, giving one particular magazine the option to publish this exclusively, and then that magazine, in essence, writes you out of the credit! Disgusting. Bukowski was so right when he railed against the literary establishment or wannabes, most of them being self-aggrandizing slugs.
Hopefully the editor of that magazine reads this and apologizes. It was a really crappy thing to do to (at that time) a starving student trying to build a name for himself. Heck, my name on that interview was barely visible, thanks to the design. I did not do that interview "for Gargoyle," nor did I give "paycock press" or Richard Peabody the right to attribute my questions to "Gargoyle." I was never asked about this, and I was completely stunned when I saw "G" on the questions rather than my own name.
And guess what I got from Gargoyle for that interview? Contributor's copies! LOL.
I'm sure Bukowski himself could have written a few choice poems about that editor.
Getting ready to publish some add-on interviews from the one I published on PoetryCircle, by the way. Stay tuned.
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