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 ...

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 ...

After Bukowski’s death in 1994, Mallory wrote tributes to him for the Daily Pilot and Orange County Register and printed a limited-edition broadsheet of one of his poems.

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 ...

He is drunk for art. Which brings us to Charles Bukowski’s latest book, ON DRINKING (Ecco/HarperCollins, $26.99). At this point, new books by Bukowski tend to be pretty old.

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 ...

LOS ANGELES — Charles Bukowski, the prolific writer and poet laureate of Los Angeles low-life whose rough-hewn autobiographical poems, short stories, novels and 1987 film “Barfly” chronicled ...

'20 Years After: The Charles Bukowski Memorial Gathering' at King Eddy Saloon will have readings by Dan Fante, S.A. Griffin, Suzanne Lummis, Joan Jobe Smith and Fred Voss.

In honour of Charles Bukowski’s birthday, BBC Culture asked readers to share their favourite lines by the author. Henry Charles Bukowski was a German-born American novelist, short story writer ...