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11 unusual facts about Charles Bukowski


29th Street Rep

The 29th Street Rep's 2000 production of its adaptation of nine short stories from Charles Bukowski's South of No North (Tales of the Buried Life) was a big hit, running over 100 performances.

Book store shoplifting

Of the 70 libraries across the United States who responded to her query in 2001, none mentioned books by Charles Bukowski.

Bukowski

Charles Bukowski, an American poet, novelist and short story writer

Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life

Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life, a book by Howard Sounes, published in 1998 by Grove Press, is a biography of American writer Charles Bukowski.

Danny MacFayden

According to Charles Bukowski's childhood friend Harold Mortenson, in the 1930s, the two played a statistics-intensive baseball game akin to Strat-O-Matic that involved two dice and two manuals that was marketed under Danny MacFayden's name when he was with the Boston Bees.

David R. Godine

After finding new homes for four of his more major authors — Charles Bukowski, Paul Bowles, John Fante, and Wyndham Lewis — Martin sold the rest of his backlist to a fellow publisher, David R. Godine.

He Said He Loved Me

"He Said He Loved Me" and the B-side "You Get So Alone It Just Makes Sense" both feature on the demo release Ten Songs: "You Get So Alone Sometimes It Just Makes Sense" was taken from the title of a collection of poems by Charles Bukowski.

Joachim Nielsen

Nielsen's lyricism is closely related to the American writer Charles Bukowski, in describing societal underdogs, misfits and so-called anti-heroes.

Ron Androla

His work also demonstrates the considerable influence of Charles Bukowski, especially in its disaffection and in its use of the short line, paratactical structures, colloquial enjambments and stream of consciousness technique.

Stone Hotel

The poems record the author's seven years in prison and are influenced by Charles Bukowski and Edward Bunker.

The Dogs D'Amour

Tyla was also a huge fan of Charles Bukowski, and many of his lyrics, delivered with an impelling throaty rasp, were tinged with humorous irony and pathos, reflecting Bukowski's prosaic style.


Bellevue Literary Review

The Bellevue Literary Review has published the works of Charles Bukowski, Philip Levine, Sharon Olds, David Lehman, Eamon Grennan, Julia Alvarez, Rick Moody, Hal Sirowitz, Charles Barber, Peter Selgin, Amy Hempel, Stephen Dixon, Virgil Suarez, Sheila Kohler, and Jacob M. Appel.

Capra Press

Capra Press was a Santa Barbara, California-based independent publishing house which has produced works by authors such as Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, Raymond Carver, Ray Bradbury, Gretel Ehrlich, Ursula K. Le Guin, Lawrence Clark Powell, Charles Bukowski, Michael Petracca, Tony Mendoza, Barry Gifford, José Antonio Burciaga, Ross Macdonald, and Twinka Thiebaud, who collected Henry Miller's table talk.

Encyclopaedia Psychedelica

Contributors included: Neil Oram, Charles Stephens, Timothy Leary, Ken Kesey, Pete Loveday, Tony Benn, Charles Bukowski, Robert Bly and Richard Allen who went on to establish the neo-psychedelic Delerium Records label .

Jack Ketchum

Throughout his life Ketchum has read widely and voraciously, authors like Robert Bloch and Charles Bukowski, Jim Harrison and Ernest Hemingway.

New York Quarterly

The NYQ is widely known for featuring poems and/or interviews with writers such as Charles Bukowski, W. H. Auden, Anne Sexton, Ted Kooser, Franz Wright, Karl Shapiro, Macdonald Carey, Richard Eberhart, Michael McClure, and Lyn Lifshin.

Peter Bakowski

His early works, including his first book Thunder Road, Thunder Heart (1988), show the influence of American Beat writers such as Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and Charles Bukowski.