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I think Hollywood and also Locked in the Arms... talk about him going to a favorite restaurant and drinking quite a nice dry Riesling and drinking imported beer. Doesn't he drink Heineken in the film where he's interviewed in his home in San Pedro? (Sorry the name escapes me) I think he moved...

Sometimes his sentences form patterns over the course of an entire book....individual sentences or passages may only become comprehensible or completed later in the text. He was known to switch from one narrative to another very abruptly even in his non-cutup stuff. In his last trilogy, his...

Roni, there you go. I'd be happy to do it, but copyright is copyright, and I don't want to endanger the forum, certainly not against mjp's recommendation. I could scan an article for you. PM me if you're still interested. Contributors are: Ernest Fontana, Jimmie E. Cain, Jr., Jack Saunders...

Roni, I didn't see this until now, sorry. For scanning, I'd be up for it. I'd like MJP's opinion first, however.

A few years back Maja asked if anyone had a copy of The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 5 No. 3 (Fall, 1985). As far as I can tell no one else has mentioned it (I'm probably wrong). I gifted a copy to a pal a few years back and when he moved to Vietnam last year he gave me all his books...

Yes, the northern states are also cowboy-like. I spent two months in Nuevo Leon. Tiny place called Zaragosa. Bottles of beer cost a quarter (US). That place was pretty mellow. On another trip I went to Chihuahua, and started drinking at a big place with lots of hookers and that tension you...

You're in Israel! You can hang out in places so old it boggles the mind!

I've travelled a lot in Mexico. I think over three trips I spent about year there. North, south, east, and west. I like DF a lot. I liked it all a lot, great people, but drinking can be hairy. Do you agree? Mexican campesinos often get crazy drunk, I mean, passing out at the bar drunk, spend...

I come from the "new south". My experiences in Philly, New York, and other older American cities, yeah, the corner bar is an institution. Tampa was chock full of bars, not corner bars because the urban landscape is different. Driving is much more imperative. I left Tampa in 94 but I still...

Which border is that? Mexico? I admit I'm no expert on his life, despite reading some bios, I always forget about his time in Philly. He never drank in Pedro? Kind of surprising he never stopped by a place on the way home. I suppose the "Buk drank here" is the LA equivalent of "Washington...

Once a week ain't bad!

Yeah, I suppose "dive" has a bad connotation, but a lot of these were just what I'm talking about. Raggedy places, usually named after the founder, and often called a "lounge". All of 'em at the beginning probably pretty snazzy. MJP, not exactly a kid anymore. I get your point, for me they...

No. Any good?

Hi Eden. Welcome. I'm not here very often. I go through cycles where Buk goes off my radar for a while then I watch Born Into This or read one of his books and lurk about the site, usually with a specific question or answer, though I recently ventured into the anything goes section with a...

I realize my answer was not exactly what you asked, but glad you appreciated it. As far as finding one's voice, I felt like I had it once I'd stopped looking for it. Bukowski's epitaph, once again. "Don't Try." So you write poetry and prose?

Where are you from?

This may have been addressed before, but are any of the dives in the opening sequence of Barfly Still around? Did Bukowski actually drink in any of the bars in the film? Finally, which is why I put this question here: What memorable dive bars have you frequented as a quasi-regular? In...

My 16 year old son has gotten into Bukowski recently, via a French translation of Notes of a Dirty Old Man (long story, French is his first language)

These days I put down a six pack and two tallboys of 1664 per day.

I started with stories and several aborted novels, then moved on to poetry from about age 25 to 45. Reams of rubbish with a few gems. I started a novel to deal with my divorce, sparked by reading Schismatrix, in early 2017. I had no intention to publish it, but I showed it to a novelist friend...

Any news on this? Apparently released in 2013/14 but can't find a trailer or anything except the legal issues around copyright. Any info appreciated. Apologies in advance if this has been covered. All I can find are references to it and articles about the lawsuit over the rights. I'd like to...

haha! Don't mince words and tell us how you really feel :) Yes, I suppose you're right. Just me trying to find a silver lining. Even if only a sliver of silver. Like I said, I find it both unnecessary and wrong myself. What I didn't say was thank you for bringing it to the world's...

Cheers for that. It didn't occur to me to re-look at the timeline. I know that his poverty at some points was greatly exaggerated, but hadn't cottoned to the claim of having the equivalent of 600k in the bank in 1969. That's actually some serious money for those days. It wouldn't be such a...

So, shit, I hadn't listened to the podcast before writing this so clearly, my questions about Bukowski's consent is a bit ignorant. Can't think but that these changes were not at all ok'd but stem from some marketing or other concern. Can't really say why Martin changed things but he did, for...

Just read this entire thread. I write poetry and prose and have even published a novella with a small press. I don't believe my words are sacrosanct and can accept changes....if they are run by me first. When my novella was published, the editor only changed it by breaking up the manuscript...