#AmericanWriters
I used to take the back off the telephone and stuff it with ra… and when somebody knocked I wouldn’t answer and if they pers… I’d tell them in terms vulgar
this man sometimes forgets who he is. sometimes he thinks he’s the Pope. other times he thinks he’s a
the men phone and ask me that. are you really Charles Bukowski the writer? they ask. I’m a sometimes writer, I say, most often I don’t do anything.
yeah sure, I’ll be in unless I’m… don’t knock if the lights are out or you hear voices or then I might be reading Proust if someone slips Proust under my d…
my grandfather was a tall German with a strange smell on his breath… he stood very straight in front of his small house and his wife hated him
One night my father took me on his milk route. There were no longer any horsedrawn wagons. The milk trucks now had engines. After loading up at the milk company we drove off on his rout...
This is advance notice that it is proposed to suspend you from duty without pay for 3 days or to take such other disciplinary action as may be determined to be appropriate. The proposed...
Go to Tibet. Ride a camel. Read the Bible. Dye your shoes blue. Grow a Beard.
30 dogs, 20 men on 20 horses and o… and look here, they write, you are a dupe for the state, the… you are in the ego-dream, read your history, study the monet…
I laugh sometimes when I think ab… say Céline at a typewriter or Dostoevsky... or Hamsun...
It was hot that night at the reading, which was to be held at St. Mark’s Church. Tammie and I sat in what was used as the dressing room. Tammie found a full-length mirror leaning agains...
smoking a cigarette and noting a m… flattened out against the wall and died as organ music from centuries back… my black radio
in the slow Mexican air I watched… and they cut off his ear, and his… no more terror than a rock. driving back the next day we stopp… and watched the golden red and blu…
The next night as they moved the group from the main build– ing to the training building, I stopped to talk to Gus the old newsboy. Gus had once been 3rd-ranked welterweight contender b...
my mother, father and I walked to the market once a week for our government relief food: cans of beans, cans of