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was just thinking of buks first novel. autobiographical. everyone's one is that they always say, but 'it began as a mistake.' hah. my first reading buk began as one. kind of preceding beers to ensue post ham on rye. i also think buk may have been a bit crazy, or more than. i also saw somewhere...

"I'm full of the best intentions." I like that. How is it going now, in Jul? Buk did meditate for at least some time, from an interview I found w/his wife, Linda. She said something like she didn't think he ever experienced that sort of peace. Makes one think. I wish I would get back into...

almost as though it's either too hip or expected, or unhip or (academically) taboo to mention him. it's always something like (and i'm no literary...), "... and ... Burroughs, Thompson, and, incidentally, that Buk character." makes me kind of proud almost.

Not the poem, necessarily. Buk always brings up "style", and I was just wondering what's your take on what he meant. Or better, what's style to you? My take, and a hazy one, is style's the right proportion of grace and, -- another buk "term" .. -- class. I don't know if you were into...

Hello. I was wondering if someone could tell me what biography on Bukowski is the best one. It's always so interesting to read tales that give some perspective on the man behind the myth -- I read, for example, how he never went to the "rich" high school like he wrote in Ham on Rye, but the one...

Thanks for the post! To "Purple Stickpin", yeah, I got Jan. Although maybe that's the reason no one is getting 100? Is it Jan or Jane, because my answer is Jan. Ques 5 should've been worded better. Paul Giamatti said in Sideways he thought Bukowski wrote that line. It kind of doesn't...

Hmm, which questions aren't verified? I got the questions from things I saw or read Buk or his people say. Like, one interesting thing I was going to put in was from an interview I read of his wife, with Mike Watts. She said that toward the end, he got into meditation. I don't know if the...

How's my Bukowski quiz? Any constructive criticisms? http://www.okcupid.com/tests/4935329723386948696/Bukowski

Can you find it or no? Yeah, you can find archives - like the one on this site - that have the title underlined, but clicking on it doesn't bring you to the actual poem.

thanks maJorP, I actually have some training with computers. But if you can locate the poem, thanks x 10

Great. Do you know where I could get a copy of it online? I really don't want to drive to the library for it, and need it for something I'm writing about Buk. sah

Can someone tell me the name of this poem, in Neeli Cherkovski's biography, Bukowski: A Life, where Buk writes a poem about his father's death? I can't really remember, but it was something about him visiting his father's house to collect or get rid of his things, and I think acknowledging their...

Awesome, Bernard. Though little did she know ... MJP, whoops! The site it more personable though. And there's the pic of Linda, that has been seen a billion times. For more on Buk, I found this site in google books, Bukowski In Pictures, that is really great. If you type that in at...

Hello. Just found this article or short story (or journal entry?) by Bukowki former lover Linda King. Thought it was pretty interesting, especially since I'm reading Women again. Thought I'd post the link here for comments, posterity (?), whatever: http://lindakingarts.com/bukowski.htm...

huh? I read some Hunter Thompson. I don't know why, but after a little while I just got bored. I don't even remember why, but I can recall thinking it didn't seem to catch on for a reason similar to why some of the other beats didn't. I read Bukowski before reading any of the beats, so...

Yeah, I read Blade Runner, Loved the movie. Doesn't sound like a bad idea to check Phil K. again. Thank you. Yeah, actually, I got this gift card that I traded for cash. Waiting for the check in the mail. Plan to buy some Dan Fante, loved senior's work! Also thinking about Augusten Burroughs...

Hey. So really, what other books are there besides Bukowski? I read all his novels a couple times and I need something else. I feel like I've got reader's block, which has never happened. Nothing else seems worth reading. There's no one else like Bukowski: I mean, smart, good writing, words I...

I've always thought it meant ... well, just what it says. I wouldn't call it slacking, just letting things roll. I'd liken it to the expression "Don't try too hard," if that is one. I think it was said best in (I think) the interview posted in a link above, where the interviewer said "Be...

I think I agree with you, southern gent. There's this quote that goes something like... 'there will come the age when man will learn to express himself on the sheet...' I never knew Bukowski, and the parts of him I was able to look at weren't all good, but I got a good picture from him. I...

In what way does his writing make your feel? Is it you relate, or you just feel more in touch (with self), or puzzled? Hmm. Maybe there's no point to this, but I'll submit it anyway.

Any non-animated or non-short ones? Factotum was good, I think someone should make another, maybe Ham on Rye. Go all out. That would make a great film.

I like the show. It can't be Bukowski, they shouldn't even mention his name in it. But it's fun to watch in a cheesy sort of way, and stimulating in a semi-pornographic one. It does seem almost too obvious to be obvious... But maybe that's some of the charm.

not for nothing, but I don't know about that butt f... Maybe he'd have gotten a kick out of it. He did use the computer to write, so in the internet age, had he gotten to see it, he might have toyed around with the written forum. Not necessarily this one, dedicated to him... but who knows?

I guess. I got to the part where he says he at that point considered running away, but didn't figuring if men couldn't get jobs a kid couldn't. But the thought crossed his mind then. By anywhere I meant a person like that, I'd think, would be driven elsewhere by his need to survive. I remember...

I think the guy was a little better at telling stories. I'm not really into his poems that read more like poetry. It's the ones that are like stories that get me, and his novels are just nuts. Could get lost in them. It's nice to get a sense of him, he was pretty sensitive for all his fighting...