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I'll sometimes show people some of Bukowski's work and quite often the response will be "it seems so dark and negative". It's difficult to explain that in reality it's not negative but simply brutally honest writing. I also sometimes wonder if these people are sometimes right in what they're...

Recently I've been reading a fair bit of his later writings and it seems theres a fair bit there on how other writers "can't write for shit" It also seems that he thought that other writers thought that he was somehow responsible for them not being published Has anyone else noticed this?

Bit of a boxing fan here so here goes............ Re the boxing - if my memory serves me correctly, I read in a Jack Dempsey biography that Hemingway claimed he could hold his own in a sparring session with a certain fighter (I could be wrong, but I think it was Dempsey himself) A sparring...

the first 2 are hilarious. This parrot's very well trained indeed, in swearing :eek: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=x+rated+parrot&search=Search

Just signed up here after snooping around the site for a while. Been interested in the great (mad) man since Barfly came out and I discovered the movie was somewhat autobiographical. Bukowski was by far the most sane madman I've ever come across. Some of his stuff came from god knows where yet a...