Charles Bukowski

7 best books like Charles Bukowski (Barry Miles): Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life, Charles Bukowski: A Sure Bet, Hank: The Life of Charles Bukowski, You Might as Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker, Living on Luck, With William Burroughs: A Report From the Bunker, A Life in Letters

Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life

Author	Howard Sounes
ISBN	0802136974

A former postman and long-term alcoholic who did not become a full-time writer until middle age, Charles Bukowski was the author of autobiographical novels that captured the low life--including Post Office, Factotum, and Women--and made him a literary celebrity, with a major Hollywood film (Barfly)...

Charles Bukowski: A Sure Bet

Author	Gerald Locklin
ISBN	0934953430

Charles Bukowski, Gerald Locklin, two almost household names in the poetry small press. Who came first? Why does it matter? Each was, or is, unique in his approach to the written word. Bukowski liked to drink, to play the horses, to write, but that was not the totality of the poet or the man. Readers seems...

Hank: The Life of Charles Bukowski

Author	Neeli Cherkovski
ISBN	0394575261

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You Might as Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker

Author	John Keats
ISBN	0913729493

"Once upon a time --just after World War I to be precise-- the world was bright and new, and Dorothy Parker was one of the brightest and newest people in it." So begins this biography of one of the wittiest American writers of her era by John Keats. It is an intriguing story, sad in many ways, but never less...

Living on Luck

Author	Charles Bukowski
ISBN	0876859821

Just a book about a guy getting progressively richer. I like how honest Bukowski is in his letters, his has no regard for who’ll read them. I half think Bukowski intended to lock them up. It got so honest I almost cringed (that whole fiasco with the read haired girl really broke the macho wise old man facade).
The...

With William Burroughs: A Report From the Bunker

Author	William S. Burroughs
ISBN	0312147678

Burroughs, the eccentric, brilliant artist who burned the bridge with logic and wrote the classic Naked Lunch, has a court recorder in Victor Bockris. Bockris has collected into a cogent whole the man's most brilliant moments of conversation, thinking, and interview repartee. This fascinating...

A Life in Letters

Author	F. Scott Fitzgerald
ISBN	0684801531

A vibrant self-portrait of an artist whose work was his life.
In this new collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald's letters, edited by leading Fitzgerald scholar and biographer Matthew J. Bruccoli, we see through his own words the artistic and emotional maturation of one of America's most enduring...