Showing posts with label Writer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Writer. Show all posts

Sunday, August 16, 2026

Born on this day – Charles Bukowski:


Charles Bukowski


Writer

August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994

Credits:

Books:

A Bukowski Sampler (1988); Absence of the Hero (2010); All the Assholes in the World and Mine (1966); At Terror Street And Agony Way (1968); Barfly (1983); Beerspit Night and Cursing (2001); Betting on the Muse (1996); Bone Palace Ballet (1997); Bring Me Your Love (1983); Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame (1974); Cold Dogs In The Courtyard (1965); Come On In! (2006); Crucifix in a Deathhand (1965); Dangling in the Tournefortia (1981); Factotum (1975); Fire Station (1970); First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994); Ham on Rye (1982); Hollywood (1989); Hot Water Music (1983); In the Shadow of the Rose (1991); Living On Luck (1995); Love Is a Dog from Hell (1977); Mockingbird Wish Me Luck (1972); Mondo Barbie (1993); Mondo Elvis (1994); Mondo James Dean (1996); Mondo Marilyn (1995); Mondo Marilyn (1995); More Notes of a Dirty Old Man (2011); New Poems Book Four (2003); New Poems Book One (2003); New Poems Book Three (2003); New Poems Book Two (2003); Notes of a Dirty Old Man (1969); On Cats (2015); On Drinking (2019); On Love (2016); On Writing (2015); Open All Night (2000); Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit (1979); Poems written before jumping out of an 8 story window (1974); Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook (2008); Post Office (1971); Pulp (1994); Reach for the Sun (1999); Run With the Hunted (1962); Screams from the Balcony (1993); Selected Letters Volume 1: 1958-1965 (2004); Selected Letters Volume 2: 1965-1970 (2004); Selected Letters Volume 3: 1971-1986 (2004); Selected Letters Volume 4: 1987-1994 (2005); Septuagenarian Stew (1990); Shakespeare Never Did This (1979); Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way: New Poems Book 1 (2002); Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way: New Poems Book 2 (2002); Slouching Toward Nirvana (2005); South of No North (1973); Storm for the Living and the Dead (2017); Tales of Ordinary Madness (1972); Tales of Ordinary Madness (1983); The Bell Tolls for No One (2015); The Bukowski / Purdy Letters (1984); The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship (1998); The Continual Condition (2009); The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills (1969); The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain (2003); The Last Night of the Earth Poems (1992); The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way: On Writers and Writing (2018); The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories (1983); The Most Beautiful Woman in Town (2013); The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps (2001); The People Look Like Flowers At Last (2007); The Pleasures of the Damned (2007); The Portable Sixties Reader (2003); The Roominghouse Madrigals (1988); There's No Business (1984); War All the Time (1984); What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire (1999); Women (1978); Writing Los Angeles (2002); You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense (1986).

Movies and television:

900 Pounds (1987); A .45 to Pay The Rent (2010); A Man (2005); Alone with Everybody (2016); Amor por menos (1994); An Evil Town (1995); Apostrophes (1978); Apporte-moi ton amour (2002); Artbound (2014); Barfly (1987); Bluebird (2022); Breakfast with Bukowski (2011); Bring Me Your Love (2000); Broken-Mirror Music (2001); Bukowski (1973 / 2023); Bukowski at Bellevue (1995); Bukowski: Born into This (2003); BXLx24 (2011); Charles Bukowski's Nirvana (2013); Cinéma cinémas (1982); Code Name: Arabesque / The Charles Bukowski Tapes (1985); Crazy Love (1987); Death Is Smoking My Cigars (2021); Dr Nazi (2011); Droit de réponse: l'esprit de contradiction (1982); Eddie and Eve (2021); Encore une nuit de merde dans cette ville pourrie (2008); Factotum (2005); Fan des années 80 (2012); Figure (2017); Frozen Food Section (2005); Fuck the Forest (2013); Functioning on Zero: Robert Dean Live from the Lost Well (2020); Girl on the Escalator (2016); Gunnar Goes Comfortable (2003); Guts (1991); Hit Man (2014); Horseshoe (1998); Il falso bugiardo (2008); Ioana Dobroiu: The Night Kept Coming on and There Was Nothing I Could Do About It (2018); Jukebox: From Edison to Ipod (2007); Kasabanin En Güzel Kizi (2018); La pétaudière de Gontran H (2024); Lonely at the Top (1993); Loren Cass (2006); Love for $17.50 (1998); Love Is a Dog from Hell (2014); Love Lasts Three Years (2011); Love Pig (1990); Lune froide (1988 / 1991); Ma langue dans ta poche (2016); Mask (2011); Mermaid of Venice (2011); Metamorphosis (2022); My Old Man (2004); Nedgång och Fall (2009); Nice Guy Blues (2007); No Leaders Please (2021); Nothing Else to Do (2016); Opowiesc o ordynarnym szalenstwie (1987); Paradise Now, Apocalypse Later / The Laughing Heart (2017); Personenbeschreibung (1982); Pink & Tender (2007); Piss (2018); Poetry in Motion (1982 / 2020); Resiliencia (2020); Run to the Sea (2014); Sieh an, sieh an (1985); Sitting on a Fire Escape Eating Eggs (2015); Småfysen (2022); Somebody to Love (1994); Son of Satan (2003); Supervan (1977); Sve Zene Se Zovu Kiki (1991); Syn Szatana (2008); Tales of Ordinary Madness (1981); The Best Hotel on Skid Row (1990); The Big Pot Game (2013); The Blanket (1994); The Bottle (2019); The Crossing Guard (1995); The Devil Was Hot (2010); The Icecream People (2022); The Killers (1984); The Last Straw (2008); The Laughing Heart (2012); The Living Room Festival (1995–1999); The Man with the Beautiful Eyes (2000); The Midnight Show (2012); The Pleasures of the Damned (2024); The Strangest Thing Just Happened (2015); The Suicide (2006); The Works III (1994); There's Gonna Be a God Damn Riot in Here (2008); Vessel (2015); Warm Face/Cold Place (2015); Welcome to the Basement (2015); You Never Had It: An Evening With Bukowski (2016).

Recommended reading:

Post Office

by Charles Bukowski.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0753518163

ISBN-13: 978-0753518168

Description:

It began as a mistake. By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life to the U.S. Postal Service. In a world where his three true, bitter pleasures are women, booze, and race-track betting, he somehow drags his hangover out of bed every dawn to lug waterlogged mailbags up mud-soaked mountains, outsmart vicious guard dogs, and pray to survive the day-to-day trials of sadistic bosses and certifiable coworkers. This classic 1971 novel – the one that catapulted its author to national fame – is the perfect introduction to the grimly hysterical world of legendary writer, poet, and Dirty Old Man Charles Bukowski and his fictional alter ego, Chinaski.

“Wordsworth, Whitman, William Carlos Williams, and the Beats in their respective generations moved poetry toward a more natural language. Bukowski moved it a little farther.” – Los Angeles Times Book Review.

Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in Andernach, Germany, and raised in Los Angeles, where he lived for fifty years. He published his first story in 1944, when he was twenty-four, and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp (1994).



Tuesday, February 3, 2026

Born on this day – Paul Auster:

 

Paul Auster


Writer

Director

February 3, 1947 – April 30, 2024
Credits:
 
Books and plays:
 
110 Stories (2004); 4 3 2 1 (2017); A Life in Words (2017); Auggie Wren's Christmas Story (1990); Baumgartner (2023); Bloodbath Nation (2023); Blue in the Face (1990); Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane (2021); Central Park: An Anthology (2012); City of Glass (1985); Collected Prose (2003); Collected Screenplays (2010); Dream Days in Hotel (1998); Ghosts (1986); Granta 58: Ambition (1997); Groundwork (2020); Hand to Mouth (1997); Here and Now (2012); In the Country of Last Things (1987); Invisible (2009); Leviathan (1992); Long Live King Kobe (2022); Lulu on the Bridge (1998); Man in the Dark (2008); Moon Palace (1989); Mr. Vertigo (1994); Oracle Night (2004); Paul Auster's New York (1997); Report from the Interior (2013); Smoke (1995); Sophie Calle: Double Game (1999); Strange Stories for Strange Kids (2001); Sunset Park (2010); Talking to Strangers (2019); The Art of Hunger (1983); The Book of Illusions (2002); The Brooklyn Follies (2005); The Future Dictionary of America (2004); The Inner Life of Martin Frost (2000); The Invention of Solitude (1985); The Locked Room (1986); The Music of Chance (1990); The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1983); The Red Notebook (1993); The Story of My Typewriter (2002); Timbuktu (1999); Translations (1997); Travels in the Scriptorium (2005); White Spaces (1980); Why Write? (1996); Winter Journal (2012).
 
Movies and television:
 
20 heures le journal (2001); 21 cm (2018); 50 anys en companyia (2009); 60 Minutes / Smoke Screen (1996); Act of God (2009); Amos Oz: The Nature of Dreams (2009); Ànima (2012); Apos' (1987); Apostrophes (1990); As Smart As They Are: The Author Project (2005); Avisa'ns quan arribi el 2000 (1998); Babel (2017); Bestseller (2002 / 2003); Blue in the Face (1995); Bonnie (2022); Broken Flowers (2005); C politique (2020); Café littéraire (2009); Ce soir (ou jamais!) (2009); Ceremonia de apertura - 55º Festival internacional de cine de San Sebastián (2007); Ceremonia de clausura - 55º festival internacional de cine de San Sebastián (2007); Charlie Rose (1997–2004); Cinema 3 (2007); Continuarà... (2008); Conversas de Escritores (2009); David Blaine: Beyond Magic (2016); Doc (2008); Double je (2002); Druckfrisch (2013); Edge of Outside (2006); El blog de Cayetana (2007); Èxit (2008); Fluxus (2004); Gomorron (2011); Hjemkomst (2004); I Remember (1999); In the Country of Last Things (2020); It Was Mine (2015); Joan Mitchell: Woman in Abstraction (2022); Kulturplatz (2013); Kulturzeit (2017); La grande librairie (2009–2022); La tarda (2008); La tele de tu vida (2007); Le carnet rouge (2004); Le cercle (1998); Le cercle de minuit (1997); Le Conversazioni, Close Up (2015); Les Carnets de route de François Busnel (2011); L'hora del lector (2008); Los 10 magníficos (2008); Los Siete Locos (2018); Lulu on the Bridge (1998); Mein Leben (2006); Newsnight (2017); Out of My Head (2018); Página 2 (2008–2017); Park Bench with Steve Buscemi (2015); Paul Auster: Le jeu du hasard (2019); Por Outro Lado (2005); Qwerty (2008–2012); Sabine Christiansen in Sabine Christiansen (2001); Saturday Review (1987); Skavlan (2013); Smoke (1995); Sqizo (2020); Talking Books (2012); The Accompanist (1992); The Center of the World (2001); The DVD Collection (2005); The Fall (1969); The Inner Life of Martin Frost (2007); The Look / Age (2011); The Music of Chance (1993); Titel, Thesen, Temperamente (2020); Tot el temps del món (2018); Un siècle d'écrivains (1999); Via llibre (2012).

Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Born on this day – Jane Austen:


Jane Austen


Writer

December 16, 1775 – July 18, 1817

Credits:

The Watsons (1804); Sense and Sensibility (1811); Pride and Prejudice (1813); Mansfield Park (1814); Emma (1815); Sanditon (1817); Northanger Abbey (1818); Persuasion (1818); The Beautifull Cassandra (1793); Lesley Castle: An Unfinished Novel In Letters (1793); Lady Susan (1794); Love and Freindship (2015); The Wit and Wisdom of Jane Austen (2017); A Memoir of Jane Austen (2017); The Letters of Jane Austen (2018); Juvenilia Volume I Annotated (1787); Juvenilia Volume II Annotated (2021); Identity And Self Respect (1952); 50 Classic Novellas (2011); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018); 30 Eternal Masterpieces of Humorous Stories (2019); Women Who Wrote (2020); Love, Lust and Passion in Regency Times (2021); The Bridgerthonian Novels (2022); The Greatest Tales of Regency Romance (2023); Hungry for Blood – Ultimate Halloween Collection (2023).

Thursday, December 11, 2025

Born on this day – Jim Harrison:



Jim Harrison


Writer

December 11, 1937 – March 26, 2016

Credits:

A Good Day to Die (1973); A Really Big Lunch (2017); After Ikkyu and Other Poems (1996); Braided Creek (2003); Brown Dog (2013); Conversations with Jim Harrison (2002); Dalva (1988); Darkness Sticks to Everything: Collected and New Poems (2013); Dead Man's Float (2015); Farmer (1976); Great Leader (2011); In Search of Small Gods (2009); Jim Harrison: Collected Ghazals (2020); Jim Harrison: The Essential Poems (2019); Julip (1994); Just Before Dark (1993); Legends of the Fall (1979); Letters to Yesenin (1973); Locations (1968); New Poems from the Third Coast: Contemporary Michigan Poetry (2000); Off to the Side (2002); Outlyer and Ghazals (1971); Plain Song (1965); Returning to Earth (2007); Saving Daylight (2006); Selected & New Poems, 1961-1981 (1982); Songs of Unreason (2011); Sundog (1984); The Ancient Minstrel (2016); The Beast God Forgot to Invent (2000); The Big Seven (2015); The Boy Who Ran to the Woods (2000); The English Major (2008); The Etiquette of Freedom (2010); The Farmer's Daughter (2009); The Raw and the Cooked (2001); The River Swimmer (2013); The Road Home (1998); The Search for the Genuine: Nonfiction, 1970-2015 (2022); The Shape of the Journey (1998); The Summer He Didn't Die (2005); The Theory and Practice of Rivers and New Poems (1990); The Woman Lit by Fireflies (1990); True North (2004); Warlock (1982); Wild Stories (2002); Wolf (1971).

Movies and television:

A Day Like Any Other (1987); All That Is Sacred (2023); Amérique, notre histoire (2006); Café Picouly (2010); Carried Away (1996); Cold Feet (1989); Cooper and Hemingway: The True Gen (2013); Dalva (1996); Droit d'auteurs (2000); Jim Harrison entre chien et loup (1993); La grande librairie (2009–2015); Le cercle de minuit (1993–1995); Légendes d'automne (2018); Legends of the Fall (1994); Nulle part ailleurs (2000); Revenge (1990); Seule la terre est éternelle (2019); The Practice of the Wild (2010); Vol de nuit (2003); Wolf (1994).

Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Born on this day – Charles M. Schulz:


Charles M. Schulz


Cartoonist

Writer

Creator of the Peanuts comic strip

November 26, 1922 – February 12, 2000


Thursday, September 25, 2025

Born on this day – William Faulkner:


William Faulkner


Writer

September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962

Credits:

Books:

40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology (2000); 50 Great American Short Stories (1963); 50 Great Short Stories (1952); 65 Great Tales Of Horror (1981); A Fable (1954); A Rose for Emily (1930); Absalom, Absalom! (1936); As I Lay Dying (1930); Barn Burning (1996); Barn Burning and other stories (1939); Big Woods (1955); Collected Stories (1948); Doctor Martino and Other Stories (1934); First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994); Flags in the Dust (1973); Go Down, Moses (1942); Growing Up in the South (1991); Intruder in the Dust (1948); Jealousy and Episode (1977); Knight's Gambit (1949); Light in August (1932); Louisiana Stories (1990); Magical Realist Fiction (1984); Marble Faun and a Green Bough (1960); Mayday (1978); Mosquitoes (1927); New Orleans Sketches (1957); Ole Miss Juvenilia (2018); Pylon (1935); Requiem for a Nun (1950); Road to Glory (1981); Sanctuary (1931); Sanctuary and Requiem for a Nun (1954); Sartoris (1929); Selected Short Stories (1956); Short Story Masterpieces: 35 Classic American and British Stories from the First Half of the 20th Century (1954); Soldiers' Pay (1926); Stories of the Modern South (1977); The Bear (1942); The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century (2000); The Best American Short Stories of the Century (2000); The Best Horror Stories (1977); The Essential Faulkner (2013); The Hamlet (1940); The Mansion (1959); The Marionettes (1978); The Reivers (1962); The Short Story: 30 Masterpieces (1992); The Sound and the Fury (1929); The Town (1957); The Unvanquished (1938); The Wild Palms / If I Forget Thee Jerusalem (1939); These 13 (1931); Three Famous Short Novels (1958); Uncle Willy and Other Stories (1967); Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner (1979); Wishing Tree (1927); World's Great Mystery Stories (1943); Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews (1957); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018); Writing Los Angeles (2002).

Movies and television:

A Rose for Emily (1983); Adventures of Don Juan (1948); Air Force (1943); As I Lay Dying (2013); Background to Danger (1943); Barn Burning (1980); Camera Three (1956–1958); Cheyenne (1956); Climax! (1954–1955); Deep Valley (1947); Dim (1958); Drums Along the Mohawk (1939); Estudio 1 (1977); Fireside Theatre (1952); Flesh (1932); Four Men and a Prayer (1938); Fumée / Smoke (1961); General Electric Theater (1960); God Is My Co-Pilot (1945); Gunga Din (1939); Intruder in the Dust (1949); Invitation au voyage (2021); Kaki Bakar (1995); Land of the Pharaohs (1955); Lazy River (1934); Lux Video Theatre (1953–1957); Mildred Pierce (1945); Mississippi Requiem (2018); Moi, général de Gaulle (1990); Noga (1991); Northern Pursuit (1943); Old Man (1997); Omnibus / Segment: William Faulkner (1952); Playhouse 90 (1958–1960); Playwrights '56 (1955); Relatos Clásicos de Misterio y Terror (2020); Requiem for a Nun (1975); Requiem für eine Nonne (1965); Sanctuary (1961); Slave Ship (1937); Sling Blade (1996); Submarine Patrol (1938); Suspense (1954); Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Golden Land (1988); The Bear (1980); The Big Sleep (1946); The Loneliness Trilogy (2008); The Long Hot Summer (1985); The Long, Hot Summer (1958–1966); The Past Is Never Dead: The Story of William Faulkner (2024); The Reivers (1969); The Road to Glory (1936); The Sound and the Fury (1959 / 2009 / 2014); The Southerner (1945); The Story of Temple Drake (1933); The Tarnished Angels (1957); To Have and Have Not (1944); Today We Live (1933); Tomorrow (1972); Two Soldiers (1986 / 2003); Vacation Playhouse (1964).