Joan Jobe Smith touches briefly on various aspects of her life--go-go dancer, single mom, poet--while discussing her latest role: editor and publisher of a literary review. But this is no lofty ...

Charles Bukowski wasn't *just* a beer drinking machine. He was a sensitive Cancer who self-medicated and wrote all night. Maybe like some of you do. As much as we love the man, we aren't quite sure ...

Bukowski’s chatty free verse (and fiction) about disappointment, drunkenness, racetracks, flophouses, lust, sexual failure, poverty and late-life success amassed an enormous following by the time of ...

When HarperCollins and Ecco Press acquired part of the Black Sparrow imprint early this year, one big prize was the sprawling, long-popular oeuvre of Charles Bukowski (Barfly; Ham on Rye; Love Is a ...

When Charles Bukowski died at 73, he left behind more than 45 volumes of poetry and prose, an oeuvre that to this day makes up the most entertaining affront ever delivered to modern letters. The books ...

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There’s something tacky about using a dead artist’s work to hawk a product, but at least it’s one that Bukowski was a fan of. There were famous writer/drinkers, and then there was Charles Bukowski.