Read by Tom Waits, written by Charles Bukowski This reading by Tom Waits captures the essence of Bukowski’s The Laughing ...

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David L. Ulin is books editor of The Times. Charles BUKOWSKI may be a Los Angeles icon, but reading “The Pleasures of the Damned” -- the new volume of his selected poetry edited by John Martin, his ...

Carol Connolly’s Reading by Writers hosts a program focusing on Skid Row poet laureate Charles Bukowski, with Mark Berriman, Tom Cassidy, Erica Christ, Ted King, Danny Klecko and William Murphy. Free.

Charles Bukowski, the legendary gutter-rat-of-Los-Angeles author and poet, had such a pungent public image — the raw-meat face, like a bulldog’s mug sculpted out of hamburger; the fights and ...

The Los Angeles-based poet Charles Bukowski was known for his blue-collar affect and prolific publishing. The writer, who passed away March 9, 1994, at 73, wrote about drinking, smoking, women, and ...

The legendary poet and writer, Charles Bukowski (August 16, 1920–March 9, 1994), a rough-and-ready representative of authenticity — whose centennial birthday was Monday — had a Palm Springs-based aunt ...

On Friday, Pete called our attention to a lovely poem by Beat poet Gary Snyder called “Why I Take Good Care of My Macitosh,” which features lovely stanzas like: And puts word-heaps in hoards for me, ...

John Dullaghan’s “Bukowski: Born Into This” accomplishes beautifully what it sets out to do, which is to reveal the man behind the crusty, hard-drinking, tough-talking persona Charles Bukowski so ...

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