This post includes affiliate links. If you purchase something through one of these links we will get a commission, which helps us maintain the site, at no extra cost to you. Today would have been Charles Bukowski’s 93rd birthday. He was born on this day, August 16th, in 1920. Bukowski…
Charles Bukowski wrote the introduction to John Fante’s most famous novel, “Ask The Dust,” after helping to get it back in print.
A madman threatened to kill writer Charles Bukowski, pulling a gun. How he got out of it is ingenious.
The Helios track “Bless This Morning Year” meets the Charles Bukowski poem “The Last Days of the Suicide Kid.”
“Post Office” is the first novel Bukowski wrote, published in 1971. It follows his alter-ego Henry Chinaski, struggling to become a successful writer.
The words come from one of Bukowski’s most famous poems, “Bluebird” and the track called “Lovage.”
“Barfly” is the only movie Charles Bukowski ever wrote. It stars Mickey Rourke, as Bukowski alter-ego Henry Chinaski, and Faye Dunaway as his love interest.
