The City Lights edition of Notes of a Dirty Old Man Mike Sharon of the The Buk Shop explores how a weekly column in the underground press fueled Charles Bukowski’s ...

Well, it was and still is, as Tom Waits has praised the poet ever since he discovered Bukowski. Waits, who has partially adopted Bukowski’s literary voice over the years has one song that stems ...

A quick low-down on Charles Bukowski – he wasn’t a mainstream writer like Miller or Faulkner, and that is the reason many of ...

I received a review of Charles Bukowski’s Hollywood for AMASS Magazine (formerly Enclitic) as we were finalizing the current issue. We wanted to include it, but it was riddled with problems. I tried ...

Black Sparrow Press, a shoestring operation he ran out of his home, became one of the highest-profile small publishers in the U.S., championing writers like Charles Bukowski. By Adam Nossiter John ...