Hot Water Music
10 best books like Hot Water Music (Charles Bukowski): The Neon Wilderness, Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life, Collected Stories, 1939-1976, The Brotherhood of the Grape, Charles Bukowski: A Sure Bet, Charles Bukowski, Revenge of the Lawn / The Abortion / So the Wind Won't Blow it All Away, Hank: The Life of Charles Bukowski, Chump Change, Call If You Need Me: The Uncollected Fiction and Other Prose
| Author | Nelson Algren |
| ISBN | 1583225501 |
Algren's short stories are now generally acknowledged to be literary triumphs - The New York Times
Nelson's stories are part of our lasting literature. They don't fade away. - Studs Terkel, from the Afterword
Once more I have been impressed by Algren's talent, his probity and his...
| 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)...
| Author | Paul Bowles |
| ISBN | 0876853963 |
stunning. some of these stories really approach perfection. i read many of them about 10 years ago, but i reread every last one this summer and found no fault with any of them. bowles' tendency toward a concomitant sensitivity and roughness is irresistible, and i am very attracted by his ability to write...
The Brotherhood of the Grape
| Author | John Fante |
| ISBN | 1841956198 |
Henry Molise, a 50 year old, successful writer, returns to the family home to help with the latest drama; his aging parents want to divorce. Henry's tyrannical, brick laying father, Nick, though weak and alcoholic, can still strike fear into the hearts of his sons. His mother, though ill and devout to...
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...
| Author | Barry Miles |
| ISBN | 1852272716 |
Fear makes me a writer, fear and a lack of confidence. A major new biography on an increasingly important American literary icon, by the most acclaimed writer on the Beat Generation, Barry Miles. Miles knew all the key players in the Beat era, including William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, and also...
| Author | Richard Brautigan |
| ISBN | 0395706742 |
Three unforgettable Brautigan masterpieces reissued in a one-volume omnibus edition.
REVENGE OF THE LAWN: Originally published in 1971, these bizarre flashes of insight and humor cover everything from "A High Building in Singapore" to the "Perfect California Day." This is Brautigan's...
| Author | Neeli Cherkovski |
| ISBN | 0394575261 |
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| Author | Dan Fante |
| ISBN | 0941543234 |
Fiction. The book follows the exploits of Bruno Dante. In New York his life is a train wreck and is turned into an upheaval when he gets the call from Los Angeles that his screenwriter father is in a coma and not expected to live. The next three weeks on the streets of L.A will change Bruno Dante's life forever....
| Author | Raymond Carver |
| ISBN | 0375726284 |
Perhaps no other writer of his generation has had more impact on the shape of fiction in the latter decades of the twentieth century than Raymond Carver. From the blue-collar realism of his early writing to his expansive later stories, the cool-eyed intensity and steady witnessing of Carver's work...
| Author | William S. Burroughs |
| ISBN | 0140050035 |
By the time I hit 21 my impressions of William S. Burroughs included:
1. Al Jorgensen was a fan. I remember a picture of the two together.
2. Heroin.
3. Short guy with a hat.
4. Burroughs killing his wife while trying to shoot an apple off her head.
I’m not sure from where...
| Author | Jack Kerouac |
| ISBN | 2267012626 |
It took me years to get beyond the Beat myth and see these poems for what they are; some of the most joyful, goofy and affecting writings of the last century. Kerouac wrote all 242 choruses--one per notebook page--over six weeks in 1955. His improvised word-jazz was at its peak; the poems are fresh and spontaneous...
