The Los Angeles-based poet Charles Bukowski was known for his blue collar affect and his prolific publishing. The writer, born August 16, 1920 and who passed away March 9, 1994, wrote about drinking, ...

The Huntington Library in San Marino, known as the home of Gainsborough's “The Blue Boy," made news four years ago with its acquisition of something a lot bluer: a cache of papers, books and ...

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 ...

“The Laughing Heart.” – Read by Tom Waits, written by Charles Bukowski This reading by Tom Waits captures the essence of ...

The importance of alcohol to literary genius has always been exaggerated, particularly by literary geniuses. That seems to be the case with Charles Bukowski, the late Los Angeles poet and novelist who ...

The epitaph on the headstone of Charles Bukowski, poet laureate of the Los Angeles lowlife, reads “DON’T TRY.” What does it mean? Prior to his death in 1994, Bukowski explained in a letter to one of ...

His biographies of Charles Bukowski and Lawrence Ferlinghetti came to overshadow his own work. “I would love an interview,” he once said, “where Bukowski is not mentioned.” By Michael S. Rosenwald ...

Chinaski became a recurring character and readers were drawn to Bukowski’s raw truthfulness in his writings. His coming-of-age novel set during the Great Depression, Ham on Rye (1982) was highly ...

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