Charles Bukowski

Ham on Rye

By: Charles Bukowski

In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely years of his own hardscrabble youth in the raw voice of alter ego Henry Chinaski. From a harrowingly cheerless childhood in Germany through...

Women

By: Charles Bukowski

Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in flea-bitten apartments, Chinaski sees his poetic...

post office

By: Charles Bukowski

'It began as a mistake.' By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life to the U.S. Postal Service. In a world where his three true, bitter pleasures are women, booze, and racetrack betting, he somehow drags his...

The Most Beautiful Woman in Town

By: Charles Bukowski

These mad immortal stories, now surfaced from the literary underground, have addicted legions of American readers, even though the high literary establishment continues to ignore them. In Europe, however (particularly in Germany, Italy, and France...

Notes of a Dirty Old Man

By: Charles Bukowski

'People come to my door-too many of them really-and knock to tell me Notes of a Dirty Old Man turns them on. A bum off the road brings in a gypsy and his wife and we talk. . . drink half the night. A long distance operator from Newburgh, N.Y....

Hollywood

By: Charles Bukowski

John Pinchot, un enloquecido director de cine, se empena en llevar a la pantalla sus relatos de juventud, o sea, la autobiografia de un alcoholico empedernido. Chinaski desconfia del proyecto, aunque acepta a reganadientes escribir el guion de la...

Tales of Ordinary Madness

By: Charles Bukowski

With Bukowski, the votes are still coming in. There seems to be no middle ground-people seem either to love him or hate him. Tales of his own life and doings are as wild and weird as the very stories he writes. In a sense, Bukowski was a legend in...

Bring Me Your Love

By: Charles Bukowski

Fifteen pages of story and illustrations.

Absence of the Hero (Uncollected Stories/Essays 2)

By: Charles Bukowski

Everyone's favorite Dirty Old Man returns with a new volume of uncollected work. Charles Bukowski (1920–1994), one of the most outrageous figures of twentieth-century American literature, was so prolific that many significant pieces never found...

Beerspit Night and Cursing

By: Charles Bukowski

Unmasks the tough, street-smart persona of Charles Bukowski - America's 'Ultimate Outsider' * Amazing letters filled with passionate, literary, and personal observation * Insights into the author of Tales of Ordinary Madness, Notes of a Dirty Old...

Factotum tie-in

By: Charles Bukowski

Henry Chinaski, an outcast, loner, and hopeless drunk, drifts around America from one dead-end job to another, from one woman to another, and from one bottle to the next. Reprint. (An IFC film, directed by Bent Hamer, written by Bent Hamer & Jim...

Hot Water Music

By: Charles Bukowski

Hot Water Music is a collection of short stories by Charles Bukowski, published in 1983. The collection deals largely with: drinking, women, gambling, and writing. It is an important collection that establishes Bukowski's minimalist style and his...

More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns

By: Charles Bukowski

After toiling in obscurity for years, Charles Bukowski suddenly found fame in 1967 with his autobiographical newspaper column, "Notes of a Dirty Old Man," and a book of that name in 1969. He continued writing this column, in one form or...

Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook: Uncollected Stories and Essays, 19441990

By: Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski (19201994), one of the most outrageous and controversial figures of twentieth-century American literature, was so prolific that many important pieces were never collected during his lifetime. Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook...

Pulp

By: Charles Bukowski

En Los Angeles se rumora que un hombre que merodea las librerias buscando primeras ediciones de Faulkner, puede ser un escritor que se suponia muerto en 1961. Un detective privado muy poco intelectual es el encargado de averiguar la verdad. Esta es...

Screams from the Balcony

By: Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in Andernach, Germany, and raised in Los Angeles, where he lived for fifty...

South of No North: Stories of the Buried Life

By: Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in Andernach, Germany, and raised in Los Angeles, where he lived for fifty...

The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken over the Ship

By: Charles Bukowski

Journals, with illustrations by Robert Crumb. Raw, iconoclastic, by turns rueful and hilarious, these last journals by Charles Bukowski have found their perfect match: the brilliant, outrageous comic art of Robert Crumb who has provided a portrait of...

There's No Business

By: Charles Bukowski