Friday, August 16, 2024
Born on this day – Lois Nettleton:
Born on this day – Charles Bukowski:
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).
Born on this day – Mae Clarke:
Born on this day – Liane Haid:
Born on this day – W. Howard Greene:
Born on this day – Otto Messmer:
Recommended reading – Post Office (1971)
Post Office (1971).
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).