What Next??? Other Books (1 Viewer)

Sorry if this thread exists somewhere else, I cant find it.

Im sure alot of you have read all of Bukowski's Books Like me. So Whats next?

If you know any similar styled Authors or books along the same lines please do share.

Some of my recent reads although not new books.
Dan Fante: Corksucker
James Brown: LA Diaries
Old Knut Hamsun (who's book Hunger made me put on weight while reading!)
Nick Flynn's: Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
A Working Stiff's Manifesto: A Memoir of Thirty Jobs I Quit, Nine That Fired Me, and Three I Can't Remember by Iain Levison
Running with Scissors: A Memoir by Burroughs, Augusten

Id love to hear if you guys know of any Memoir's I should be reading and dont know about????
 
These will keep you busy:


https://bukowskiforum.com/showthread.php?t=116

https://bukowskiforum.com/showthread.php?t=3743

https://bukowskiforum.com/showthread.php?t=2783

http://guerillapoetics.org/poets/

https://bukowskiforum.com/showthread.php?t=2415

https://bukowskiforum.com/showthread.php?t=4260


Once you are done with those, allow me to recommend:

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here: http://mirandajuly.com/
 
Cheers FL, I see you like Carver:

Happiness
by Raymond Carver

So early it's still almost dark out.
I'm near the window with coffee,
and the usual early morning stuff
that passes for thought.

When I see the boy and his friend
walking up the road
to deliver the newspaper.

They wear caps and sweaters,
and one boy has a bag over his shoulder.
They are so happy
they aren't saying anything, these boys.

I think if they could, they would take
each other's arm.
It's early in the morning,
and they are doing this thing together.

They come on, slowly.
The sky is taking on light,
though the moon still hangs pale over the water.

Such beauty that for a minute
death and ambition, even love,
doesn't enter into this.

Happiness. It comes on
unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really,
any early morning talk about it.

Ive just ordered his book Where im calling from, looking forward to reading it.
 
Buk liked boxing, and I just read a good boxing biography called "Irish Thunder - The Hard Life And Times Of Micky Ward." He's a lesser known junior welterweight from Lowell, Mass., and the Dropkick Murphys song "Warrior's Code" is about him. It's a good working class story with people like those in Buk's world, and you might like it, though it might be hard to get in Scotland. I recently read "King Of The World" about Muhammad Ali, and that was good, too, and probably easier to find.
 
You could always read the Buk books again...that usually works for me...

Henry Miller too...
 
I just placed an order for several BSP books through work... I'm curious to see what else the published besides Buk, Fante, and a few scattered other authors that I've vaguely heard of.

Wish I could find a master list of all those titles some place. They did a lot of work!

I turn to Hubert Selby on occasion when I'm looking for something. But his style makes me need to concentrate, which I can't do with a baby... So I've been sticking to old favorites... Fante mostly...

Though I've got to second Father Luke's Miranda July rec. I picked it up because I loved the simple cover design and there are some GREAT stories in there.
 
I just placed an order for several BSP books through work... I'm curious to see what else they published besides Buk, Fante, and a few scattered other authors that I've vaguely heard of.

Wish I could find a master list of all those titles some place.
I think I can help you out. According to a Web site of the Black Sparrow Press archives of my alma mater, Penn State:

"One of the few who published avant-garde work profitably, Martin closed the literary house in May 2002. He sold the backlist of Charles Bukowski, Paul Bowles, and John Fante to Ecco; the Wyndham Lewis line to Ginkgo Press of Corte Madera, California, and the rest of the list went to David Godine in Boston, Massachusetts."

So if this is accurate, that would mean that Ecco has Fante and Bowles, Ginkgo Press has Lewis, and the rest can be found here:

http://www.blacksparrowbooks.com/catalog.htm

I would recommend Paul Bowles, who writes with great clarity. His Collected Stories is one of the books that Martin sent me back in 1985. I see that Ecco is carrying The Stories of Paul Bowles ... that's probably a good buy. My Collected Stories is 417 pages and the Ecco collection weighs in at 672, so for sure there's some good stuff there.

Hope this helps ... good luck and good reading! :)
 
There's a thought. Didn't Cooney donate one copy of each of BSP's books to Michigan State or something like that? That'd make getting those down on paper oh so much easier.

I mean... there can't be THAT much, right? Right? Ha ha...

Thanks for the link mjp, I've found another book that I don't have room for on my shelf!
 
Didn't Cooney donate one copy of each of BSP's books to Michigan State or something like that?

Actually I think that Cooney donated those books to Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo Mich where he used to teach. I've lived there off and on most of my life. I've always meant to go see that collection. I should put that on my "to do list" the next time I'm there to visit family. there may be some sort of list on Westerns web site in the Library special collections.
 

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