Jean Craighead George, on writing:

 

To be a writer you should read, write and talk to people, hear their knowledge, hear their problems.

Be a good listener.
The rest will come.
- Jean Craighead George.

Recommended reading – Pulp

Pulp

Pulp

by Charles Bukowski.
 
Published by Ecco.
Published in 1994.
Paperback.
 
ISBN-10: 9780876859261
ISBN-13: 978-0876859261
 
Description:
 
“Poet laureate of the down-and-out.” – LA Times.
 

Opening with the exotic Lady Death entering the gumshoe-writer's seedy office in pursuit of a writer named Cèline, this novel demonstrates Charles Bukowski's own brand of humor and realism, opening up a landscape of seamy Los Angeles.

 

Pulp is essential fiction from Buk himself.
 

Nicky Belane, private detective and career alcoholic, is a troubled man. He is plagued not just by broads, booze, lack of cash and a raging ego, but also by the surreal jobs he’s hired to do. Not only does he have to track down French classical author Cèline – who’s meant to be dead – but he also supposed to find the elusive Red Sparrow – which may or may not be real.

 

Pulp is Charles Bukowski’s brilliant, fantastical pastiche of a detective story.
 

Packed with wit, invention and Bukowski’s trademark lowlife adventures, it is the final novel by one of the most enjoyable and influential cult writers of the last century.

The value of reading and the power of imagination:

That moment when you're reading a book and the whole world around you doesn't exist anymore.

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Guy Hamilton

Director

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Janis Paige

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