The best of Bukowski's novels, stories, and poems, this collection reads like an autobiography, relating the extraordinary story of his life and offering a sometimes harrowing, invariably exhilarating reading experience. A must for this counterculture idol's legion of fans.[...]

A unique survey of two of the literary cults of the 20th Century with previously unseen photographs.

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Charles Bukowski (1920-1994), one of the most outrageous and controversial figures of twentieth-century American literature, was so prolific that many important pieces were never collected during his lifetime. "Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook "is a substantial selection of these wide-ranging w[...]

"He loads his head full of coal and diamonds shoot out of his finger tips. What a trick. The mole genius has left us with another digest. It's a full house--read 'em and weep."--Tom Waits

After toiling in obscurity for years, Charles Bukowski suddenly found fame in 1967 with his autobiogr[...]

Presents a second compilation of extraordinary, never-before-published poetry from one of America's greatest modern writers and most influencial poets. By the author of Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.[...]

A fourth installment of a five-part collection of previously unpublished poetic works by the influential contemporary American author of Pulp and Women offers insight into his views on mentoring, mortality, and the passage of time. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.[...]

A fifth and final collection of poetic works by the influential late author of Factotum and Ham on Rye features hard-hitting pieces that reflect his observations about everyday objects and offer insight into his use of unpolished language. Original.[...]

Henry Chinaski, an outcast, loner, and hopeless drunk, drifts around America from one dead-end job to another, from one woman to another, and from one bottle to the next. Reprint. (An IFC film, directed by Bent Hamer, written by Bent Hamer & Jim Stark, releasing August 2006, starring Matt Dillon, Li[...]

A down-and-out writer, Henry Chinaski reminisces about his childhood, adolescence, schooling, love affair with alcohol during the Depression, and the years leading up to World War II, in an evocative portrait of mid-twentieth-century, inner-city Los Angeles. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.[...]

To his legions of fans, Charles Bukowski was--and remains--the quintessential counterculture icon. A hard-drinking wild man of literature and a stubborn outsider to the poetry world, he wrote unflinchingly about booze, work, and women, in raw, street-tough poems whose truth has struck a chord with g[...]