My favourite, and I love the ambiguity over the interpretation (I rarely agree with historians when it comes to most topics on literature and poetry, and this time is no different) 🤍🤎.
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#TemptingTitles #WithOld An old City Lights edition.
Went to Word on the Water on Friday, the London book barge, and picked up 2 news books. The first a small Bukowski book called Notes of a Dirty Old Man and the second called Seven Brief Lesson on Physics by Carlo Rovelli 💫 📚
so-soI gave it a rating of so-so as I think I enjoyed this one the least out of all the Chinaski novels. Henry is approached by a bizarre French director about writing a screenplay of events taken from Factotum, the formidable years of a drunk writer. Much of the novel is a commentary on the absurd business maneuvering and back-stabbing by film producers and the prima donna egos and odd hang ups of the talent on set. The least dirty book of the series.
pickI've never read any Bukowski that I've not enjoyed, he's such a brilliant writer that's so descriptive, he's able to take you back to a different era.
He's so vulgar sometimes also which can be difficult for people to digest. He writes what we all are pretty much thinking but just to afraid to say it.
Every time I read something by him he gets me laughing.
Great irreverent writing.
pickThere is very little left original to say about Charles Bukowski.
The very essence of his poetry derives from his aims at chronicling nothing more than the impulse to make poetry. It‘s gestation made visible, the often awkward attempt to have something exist and exist uniquely.
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pickPULP is the last completed novel by Charles Bukowski that was published in 1994 just before his death. Bukowski knew he was dying while writing this, and the book does have a reflective, existential edge. The dedication says "Dedicated to bad writing"
After reading this I only wish he was still alive, I'd love to get drunk with him.
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Cat curled up on me? ✔️
All the pillows? ✔️
A couple hours to read after a couple busy weeks? ✔️
The world has had little Charles pretty much by the balls of late, and there isn‘t much writer left, Whit. So hearing from you was damned lovely.
- “[To Whit Burnett] April 27, 1947“
