Charles Bukowski
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The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way, Charles Bukowski considers the art of writing, and the art of living as writer. Bringing together a variety of previously uncollected stories, columns, reviews, introductions, and interviews, this book finds him approaching the dynamics of his chosen profession with cynical aplomb, deflating pretensions and tearing down idols armed with only a typewriter and a bottle of beer. Beginning with the title piece-a...
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Everyone's favorite Dirty Old Man returns with a new volume of uncollected work. Charles Bukowski (1920-1994), one of the most outrageous figures of twentieth-century American literature, was so prolific that many significant pieces never found their way into his books. Absence of the Hero contains much of his earliest fiction, unseen in decades, as well as a number of previously unpublished stories and essays. The classic Bukowskian obsessions are...
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A compilation of Charles Bukowski's underground articles from his column "Notes of a Dirty Old Man" appears here in book form. Bukowski's reasoning for self-describing himself as a 'dirty old man' rings true in this book. "People come to my door--too many of them really--and knock to tell me Notes of a Dirty Old Man turns them on. A bum off the road brings in a gypsy and his wife and we talk . . . . drink half the night. A long distance operator from...
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With Bukowski, the votes are still coming in. There seems to be no middle ground-people seem either to love him or hate him. Tales of his own life and doings are as wild and weird as the very stories he writes. In a sense, Bukowski was a legend in his time . . . a madman, a recluse, a lover . . . tender, vicious . . . never the same . . . these are exceptional stories that come pounding out of his violent and depraved life . . . horrible and holy,...
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2 audio discs (2 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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In 1993, the year before his death, this counterculture icon recorded and published selections from his classic Run with the hunted. Now, additional material from that recording session is included on this special, expanded edition, including candid conversations between Bukowski, his wife and his producer.
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1 videodisc (approximately 53 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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The documentary captures a raucous night of drinking and talking about sex, literature, childhood, and humanity with the cult writer Charles Bukowski in 1981. It is based on a video interview conducted by producer and journalist Silvia Bizio with Bukowski and his soon-to-be wife Linda at their home in San Pedro, California. The interview was shot on U-matic tapes, which have been digitized and edited along with new shots in Super 8 of scenes of Los...
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1 videodisc (approximately 94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, trying to live off jobs which don't interfere with his primary interest, which is writing.
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IN MOTION: AMIRI BARAKA profiles the outspoken representative of the Black consciousness movement who has been a major figure on the American literary and political landscape for three decades. Accessible and informative, IN MOTION: AMIRI BARAKA takes a provocative look at an important chapter in modern American political history.