Howard Sounes, author of Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life, explained: “He became sentimental about cats in his old age. When he made a bit of money, he lived the suburban ...

Charles Bukowski. Ecco, $27.5 (320pp) ISBN 978-0-06-057701-8 With at least three more full manuscripts apparently still remaining in the trunk Charles Bukowski left at his death in 1994, the ...

Dewar’s has lifted some lines from Charles Bukowski’s “So You Want to Be a Writer” as the narration for a husky, heroic White Label Scotch ad. It’s a grand tribute to manhood, to be sure ...

When Abel Debritto first started researching and writing about Charles Bukowski, he knew that the prolific underground poet, short story writer and novelist, who had written thousands of poems in ...

Charles Bukowski – the “laureate of American lowlife” – remains a divisive figure more than 20 years after his death. His belligerent and blackly comic novels, stories and poems cast an ...

Charles Bukowski was called many things: "poet laureate of L.A. lowlife," "the enfant terrible of the Meat School poets," "the prophet of the underemployed" and "a flamboyant provincial." ...

Charles Bukowski, 73, a street poet, novelist and screenwriter who wallowed in alcohol and other forms of degradation in his life and his literature, died of pneumonia Wednesday at a hospital ...