Henry Charles Bukowski (August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was an influential American poet and novelist. Bukowski's writing was heavily influenced by the geography and atmosphere of his home city of Los Angeles. He is often mentioned as an influence by contemporary authors, and his style is frequently imitated. A prolific author, Bukowski wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories, and six novels, eventually having more than fifty books in print. He is often remembered as "The Poet Laureate of Skid Row." Image File history File links CharlesBukowski. ... is the 228th day of the year (229th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 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Life

Early years

Charles Bukowski was born in Andernach, Germany, in 1920 as Heinrich Karl Bukowski. His mother Katharina Fett, a native German, met his father, a German-American serviceman, after the end of World War I. Bukowski's parents were Catholic and raised him in the Church.^[1] He was fond of claiming that he had been born out of wedlock, but Andernach records show that his parents were in fact married a month prior to his birth.^[2] // Andernach (pronounced: [ˈandərˌnax], the syllable -ach as in Gaelic) is a town in the district of Mayen-Koblenz, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany of currently about 30,000 inhabitants which are named der/die Andernacher (male singular and plural forms are identical), and the lady/-ies are die Andernacherin... Year 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display 1920) of the Gregorian calendar. ... German Americans (German Deutschamerikaner) are citizens of the United States of ethnic German ancestry and currently form the largest ancestry group in the United States, accounting for 17% of the U.S. population. ... “The Great War ” redirects here. ... Marriage is a relationship and bond, most commonly between a man and a woman, that plays a key role in the definition of many families. ...

After the collapse of the German economy following the First World War, the family moved to America in 1923, settling in Baltimore, Maryland. To sound more American, Bukowski's parents began calling him "Henry" and altered the pronunciation of the family name from Buk-ov-ski to Buk-cow-ski (the name is of Polish origin). After saving money, the family moved to suburban Los Angeles in 1926, where his father's family lived.^[2] During Bukowski's childhood, his father was often unemployed, and according to Bukowski, verbally and physically abusive (as detailed in his autobiographical novel, Ham on Rye). During his youth Bukowski suffered from shyness - at some point he developed an extreme case of acne^[3], which perhaps furthered his tendency of shyness. “The Great War ” redirects here. ... For other uses of terms redirecting here, see US (disambiguation), USA (disambiguation), and United States (disambiguation) Motto In God We Trust(since 1956) (From Many, One; Latin, traditional) Anthem The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington, D.C. Largest city New York City National language English (de facto)1 Demonym American... Baltimore redirects here. ... Illustration of the backyards of a surburban neighbourhood Suburbs are inhabited districts located either on the outer rim of a city or outside the official limits of a city (the term varies from country to country), or the outer elements of a conurbation. ... Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,290. ... Ham on Rye is a semi-autobiographical book written by Charles Bukowski. ... In humans, shyness is the feeling of apprehension or lack of confidence experienced in regard to social association with others, e. ... Grant Salzl has a huge nose full of acne. ...

After graduating from Los Angeles High School, Bukowski attended Los Angeles City College for two years, taking courses in art, journalism and literature. While studying there, he briefly associated with a group of Nazis, whom he humorously derided in Ham on Rye.^[1] He also discussed his flirtation with the Far Right in the short story "Politics" from the collection South of No North: "At L.A City College just before World War 2, I posed as a Nazi. I hardly knew Hitler from Hercules and cared less. It was just that sitting in class and hearing all the patriots preach how we should go over and do the beast in, I grew bored. I decided to become the opposition. I didn't even bother to read up on Adolf, I simply spouted anything that I felt was evil or maniacal." ^[4] Los Angeles High School, founded in 1873, is the oldest public high school in the Southern California Region and in the Los Angeles Unified School District. ... The LACC location in 1922, when it was the campus of UCLA. Los Angeles City College, known as LACC, is a public community college in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, California. ... National Socialism redirects here. ... Ham on Rye is a semi-autobiographical book written by Charles Bukowski. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into far right. ... South of No North is a collection of short stories by Charles Bukowski, the so-called Poet Laureate of Skid Row, originally published in 1973 as South of No North: Stories of the Buried Life by John Martins Black Sparrow Press. ...

On July 22, 1944, with World War II still raging, Bukowski was arrested by FBI agents in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (where he was living at the time) on suspicion of draft evasion and was held for 17 days in Philadelphia's Moyamensing Prison. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a federal criminal investigative, intelligence agency, and the primary investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). ... Nickname: City of Brotherly Love, Philly, the Quaker City Motto: Philadelphia maneto (Let brotherly love continue) Location in Pennsylvania Coordinates: Country United States State Pennsylvania County Philadelphia Founded October 27, 1682 Incorporated October 25, 1701 Mayor John F. Street (D) Area    - City 369. ... A draft dodger, draft evader or draft resister, is a person who avoids (dodges) or otherwise violates the conscription policies of the nation in which he or she is a citizen or resident, by leaving the country, going into hiding, attempting to fraudulently obtain conscientious objector status, or by open...

On August 7 of the same year he failed a physical and psychological exam and was deemed unfit for military service. ^[5] For military service in the meaning of an army as a military defense organization, see armed forces. ...

Early writing

At 24, Bukowski's short story "Aftermath of a Lengthy Rejection Slip" was published in Story magazine. Two years later, another short story, "20 Tanks From Kasseldown", was published in Portfolio III's broadside collection. Bukowski grew disillusioned with the publication process and quit writing for almost a decade. During part of this period he went on living in Los Angeles, but also spent some time roaming around the United States, working odd jobs and staying in cheap rooming houses.^[1] In the early 1950s Bukowski took a job as a letter carrier with the U.S. Postal Service in Los Angeles, but resigned just before three years service. Look up Story in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... USPS and Usps redirect here. ...

In 1955 he was hospitalized with a bleeding ulcer which was nearly fatal. When he left the hospital, he began to write poetry.^[1] In 1957, he married writer and poet Barbara Frye, but they divorced in 1959. Frye insisted that their separation had nothing to do with literature, though she often doubted his skill as a poet.^{[citation needed]} Following the divorce, Bukowski resumed drinking and continued to write poetry.^[1]

1960s

By 1960 he had returned to the post office in Los Angeles, where he continued to work as a letter filing clerk for over a decade. In 1964, a daughter, Marina Louise Bukowski, was born to Bukowski and his then live-in girlfriend Frances Smith.

The Webbs published The Outsider literary magazine and featured some of Bukowski's poetry. Under the Loujon Press, they published Bukowski's It Catches My Heart In Its Hands (1963), and Crucifix in a Deathhand, in 1965.

Beginning in 1967, Bukowski wrote the column "Notes of A Dirty Old Man" for Los Angeles' Open City underground newspaper, and it also appeared in Charles Plymell's Underground Tabloid The Last Times Vol. 1, No. 1 from the Fall 1967 where it may have been "lifted" from Open City. When Open City was shut down in 1969, the column was picked up by the Los Angeles Free Press. In 1969, Bukowski and his friend Neeli Cherkovski launched their own mimeographed literary magazine, Laugh Literary and Man the Humping Guns. They produced three issues over the next two years. The phrase underground press, especially underground newspapers (or simply underground papers) is, these days, most often used in reference to the print media associated with the countercultural movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s, although publishers of those journals had borrowed the name from previous underground presses such as... The Los Angeles Free Press (often called “the Freep” and the LAFP) was among the most widely distributed underground newspapers of the 1960s. ... Neeli Cherkovski (born 1945) in Santa Monica, California is a poet and man of letters. ... Laugh Literary and Man the Humping Guns was a mimeographed literary magazine published between 1969 and 1971 in Los Angeles, California by Charles Bukowski and himself published with Neeli Cherkovski (then known as Neeli Cherry). ...

Black Sparrow Years

In 1969, he accepted an offer from Black Sparrow Press publisher John Martin and quit his post office job to dedicate himself to full-time writing. He was then 49 years old. As he explained in a letter at the time, "I have one of two choices — stay in the post office and go crazy ... or stay out here and play at writer and starve. I have decided to starve."^[6] Less than one month after leaving the postal service, he finished his first novel, Post Office. As a measure of respect for Martin's financial support and faith in a then relatively unknown writer, Bukowski published almost all of his subsequent work with Black Sparrow. In 1976, Bukowski met Linda Lee Beighle, a health food restaurant owner. Two years later, the couple moved from the East Hollywood area, where Bukowski had lived for most of his life, to the harborside community of San Pedro,^[7] the southernmost district of the City of Los Angeles. Bukowski and Beighle were married by Manly Palmer Hall in 1985. Linda Lee Beighle is referred to as "Sara" in Bukowski's novels Women and Hollywood. Black Sparrow Books, formerly known as Black Sparrow Press, is a small book publisher and an imprint of David R. Godin, Publisher. ... Post Office is a 1971 novel written by Charles Bukowski. ... ... San Pedro is connected to Los Angeles by a thin strip of land called the Harbor Gateway which roughly follows the 110 freeway. ... Manly Palmer Hall Manly Palmer Hall (March 18, 1901 - August 29, 1990) was a prolific American author and mystic. ... Women is a 1978 novel written by Charles Bukowski, starring his semi-autobiographical character Henry Chinaski. ... Hollywood (ISBN 0876857659) is a 1989 novel by Charles Bukowski which fictionalizes his experiences surrounding the film Barfly. ...

Bukowski died of leukemia on March 9th, 1994 in San Pedro, California, at the age of 73, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp. The funeral rites were conducted by Buddhist monks. His gravestone reads: "Don't Try". Leukemia or leukaemia (Greek leukos λευκός, white; aima αίμα, blood) is a cancer of the blood or bone marrow and is characterized by an abnormal proliferation (production by multiplication) of blood cells, usually white blood cells (leukocytes). ... San Pedro is a community within Los Angeles, California, annexed in 1909 and a major seaport of the area. ... Pulp is the last completed novel by Los Angeles poet and writer Charles Bukowski. ... A replica of an ancient statue found among the ruins of a temple at Sarnath Buddhism is a philosophy based on the teachings of the Buddha, Siddhārtha Gautama, a prince of the Shakyas, whose lifetime is traditionally given as 566 to 486 BCE. It had subsequently been accepted by...

Work

Bukowski published extensively in small literary magazines and with small presses beginning in the early 1940s and continuing on through the early 1990s, with the poems and stories being later republished by Black Sparrow Press (now HarperCollins/ECCO) as collected volumes of his work. Black Sparrow Books, formerly known as Black Sparrow Press, is a small book publisher and an imprint of David R. Godin, Publisher. ... HarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. ...

Bukowski acknowledged Anton Chekhov, James Thurber, Franz Kafka, Knut Hamsun, Ernest Hemingway, John Fante, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Robinson Jeffers, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, D. H. Lawrence, Antonin Artaud and others as influences, and often spoke of Los Angeles as his favorite subject. In a 1974 interview he said, "You live in a town all your life, and you get to know every bitch on the street corner and half of them you have already messed around with. You've got the layout of the whole land. You have a picture of where you are. ... Since I was raised in L.A., I've always had the geographical and spiritual feeling of being here. I've had time to learn this city. I can't see any other place than L.A."^[6] Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (Russian: , IPA: ) was a Russian short story writer and playwright. ... For the political scientist, see James A. Thurber. ... Kafka redirects here. ... Knut Hamsun (31 years old) in 1890 Knut Hamsun (August 4, 1859 – February 19, 1952) was a leading Norwegian author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1920. ... Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 — July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. ... John Fante (April 8, 1909 – May 8, 1983) was an American novelist, short-story and screenwriter of Italian descent. ... Louis-Ferdinand Céline was the pen name of French writer and doctor Louis-Ferdinand Destouches (May 27, 1894 – July 1, 1961). ... John Robinson Jeffers (January 10, 1887–January 20, 1962) was an American poet, known for his work about the central California coast. ... Fyodor Dostoevsky. ... David Herbert Richards Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English writer of the 20th century, whose prolific and diverse output included novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, paintings, translations, literary criticism, and personal letters. ... Antonin Artaud Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud, better known as Antonin Artaud (born September 4, 1896, in Marseille; died March 4, 1948 in Paris) was a French playwright, poet, actor and director. ...

One critic has described Bukowski's fiction as a "detailed depiction of a certain taboo male fantasy: the uninhibited bachelor, slobby, anti-social, and utterly free."^[8] Since his death in 1994, Bukowski has been the subject of a number of critical articles and books about both his life and writings. Despite the fact that he has become an icon and heroic role model for many of the disaffected, his work has received relatively little attention from academic critics. ECCO continues to release new collections of his poetry, culled from the thousands of works published in small literary magazines. According to ECCO, the 2007 release The People Look Like Flowers At Last will be his final posthumous release as now all his once-unpublished work has been published.^[9] Bukowski: Born Into This, a film documenting the author's life, was released in 2004. Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ... The following is a list of works that were published or distributed after the parties involved in its creation died. ...

In June 2006, Bukowski's literary archive was donated by his widow, Linda Lee Bukowski, to the Huntington Library, in San Marino, CA. Copies of all editions of his work published by the Black Sparrow Press are held at Western Michigan University, which purchased the archive of the publishing house after its closure in 2003. The Huntington Library is an educational and research institution established by Henry Huntington in San Marino, California. ...

In popular culture

Music

Bukowski has been referred to in songs by numerous musicians and bands including X, City and Colour, The Fall, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Tom Waits, Modest Mouse, Anthrax, Apollo 440, Leftover Crack, Bad Radio, Dan Bern, The Boo Radleys, Dan Kelly and the Alpha Males, Chiodos, The Good Life, Jehst, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Sage Francis, Red Hot Chili Peppers, 311, The Beautiful South, Erik Truffaz, James Alan Gourley, Audience of One, The Dogs D'Amour, The Disco Biscuits, St. Vitus Dance, Peachcake, The Jonbenet, Modern Life is War, The Lowest of the Low, MC Lars, Razorlight, Jon Bon Jovi, The Ataris, Jawbreaker, U2, Wheatus, Buck 65, The Beastie Boys and Johnny Dowd. For other uses, see X (disambiguation). ... City and Colour is an acoustic side-project fronted by Dallas Green, rhythm guitarist and singer for the Canadian post-hardcore band Alexisonfire. ... This article is about the band. ... Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds is a successful rock band with international personnel. ... Thomas Alan Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. ... Modest Mouse is an North-American indie rock band formed in 1993 in Issaquah, Washington by singer/lyricist/guitarist Isaac Brock, drummer Jeremiah Green, bassist Eric Judy, and guitarist Dann Gallucci. ... Apollo 440 (alternately known as Apollo Four Forty or @440) are an English musical band formed in 1990 in Liverpool by brothers Trevor and Howard Gray with fellow Liverpudlians Noko and James Gardner, although Gardner left after the recording of the first album. ... Leftöver Crack is a band that rose from the remains of the seminal ska/punk band Choking Victim, which released a small number of very-low budget albums in the mid-90s. ... Bad Radio Bad Radio was a four piece, progressive funk rock band from San Diego, California. ... Dan Bern (aka Bernstein, a name which he sometimes performs under) is a guitarist, singer, songwriter, novelist, and painter. ... The Boo Radleys were a British guitar band of the 1990s who made experimental indie music, and were briefly associated with the Britpop movement. ... Dan Kelly and the Alpha Males are an Australian band from Melbourne, Victoria. ... Chiodos (pronounced chee-O-dose[1][2]) is a six-member Post-Hardcore band from Davison, Michigan. ... Tim Kasher, Stockholm 2005 The Good Life is an indie rock band on Saddle Creek records. ... William G. Shields (born 25 December 1979), better known as Jehst or a slew of aliases including The High Plains Drifter and Jay Star, is an English rapper. ... Yeah Yeah Yeahs are a Grammy Award-nominated New York City-based rock band. ... Paul Sage Francis (born November 2, 1977 in Miami, Florida) is a hip-hop artist based in Providence, Rhode Island. ... The Red Hot Chili Peppers are a Grammy-award winning American alternative rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1983. ... 311 (pronounced three eleven) is a band, from Omaha, Nebraska. ... The Beautiful South were an English pop group formed at the end of the 1980s by former members of Hull group The Housemartins - Paul Heaton and Dave Hemingway. ... Erik Truffaz (* 1960 in Switzerland) is important French Jazztrompeter, and as such Epigone of Miles Davis. ... The Dogs DAmour are a rock band formed during 1983 in London, England. ... The Disco Biscuits are a band in the jam-band scene from Philadelphia. ... Saint Vitus Dance may have the following meanings: Chorea (disease), a movement disorder. ... Peachcake is an American Indiepop group from Carefree/Cave Creek, Arizona, formed in December 2003. ... // The Jonbenét is a four-piece post-hardcore outfit from Houston, Texas. ... Modern Life Is War (MLIW) is a Marshalltown, Iowa-based melodic hardcore punk band. ... The Lowest of the Low were a Canadian alternative rock group in the early 1990s. ... Andrew Robert Nielsen (born October 6, 1982) is an American rapper, known by his stage name MC Lars. ... Razorlight is an Anglo-Swedish band formed in 2002 by singer-songwriter Johnny Borrell. ... Jon Bon Jovi (born John Francis Bongiovi, Jr. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Jawbreaker was a San Francisco punk band with roots in Los Angeles, where members Blake Schwarzenbach and Adam Pfahler attended Crossroads High School together, and New York City, where Schwarzenbach and Pfahler met bass player Chris Bauermeister at New York University in 1988. ... This article is about the Irish rock band. ... This article is about the band. ... Richard Terfry (b. ... The Beastie Boys as depicted on the cover of their 1992 album Check Your Head. ... Johnny Dowd (* March 29, 1948 in Fort Worth, Texas, Texas) is a US-american Alternative-Country-musician from Ithaca, New York. ...

Bukowski is referenced in the Red Hot Chili Peppers song Mellowship Slinky in B-Major on their Album Blood Sugar Sex Magik in the line , "I'm on the porch cause I lost my house key / Pick up my book I read Bukowski" and many of their songs have been Influenced by his Work due to their description of Los Angeles. The Red Hot Chili Peppers are a Grammy-award winning American alternative rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1983. ... Singles from Blood Sugar Sex Magik Released: 1991 Released: 1991 Released: 1992 Released: 1992 Released: 1993 Blood Sugar Sex Magik is the fifth studio album by American alternative rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, released on September 24, 1991. ...

Tom Russell's 2005 album Hotwalker drew extensively on his own correspondence with Bukowski, and featured spoken word anecdotes by Little Jack Horner, a friend of Bukowski. Thomas George Tom Russell (born 5 March 1950[1] in Los Angeles) is an American singer-songwriter. ...

Bukowski is mentioned in a song written by Chris Hickey called "Downtown" from the "fare well" CD by Uma. "...old man on the couch, he looked liked the ghost of Charles Bukowski." The recording also has a sound clip of Bukowski at the beginning saying "alright, alright, you guys, ok..." from Bukowski's "Hostage."

The Portland, OR. hardcore punk band Poison Idea named their 1987 release "WAR ALL THE TIME", after a book of poems by Bukowski. Poison Idea (sometimes referred to simply as “PI”) were a hardcore punk band from Portland, Oregon. ...

The band Hot Water Music took its name from a book by Bukowski, and artist Trever Keith planned to name his solo project Kid Stardust after one of Bukowski's short stories. The artists Thursday, Senses Fail, Worst Case Scenario, Richard Ashcroft, Juno, The Cult, Chiodos and Amber Pacific have produced albums named after Bukowski's work. Hot Water Music was a post-hardcore band from Gainesville, Florida. ... Trever Keith is a musician. ... Thursday is an American rock band from New Brunswick, New Jersey that has released four full-length albums. ... Senses Fail is a Ridgewood, New Jersey based band that draws heavily from the punk, emo,[1] screamo,[2] and hardcore genres. ... The phrase worst case scenario is used to describe any situation which could not be any worse, in other words, the worst possible outcome of a situation. ... Richard Paul Ashcroft is an English singer-songwriter born on September 11, 1971 in Billinge Maternity Hospital in Billinge Higher End, Lancashire (now part of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester). ... // Juno may refer to: Juno (mythology), a major Roman goddess June, the month named after Juno Juno (band), an American indie rock band Juno (musical), a Broadway musical with score by Marc Blitzstein based on Sean OCaseys play Juno and the Paycock Juno Reactor, a trance music project... The Cult are an English rock band, who appeared in their earliest form in Bradford during 1981. ... Chiodos (pronounced chee-O-dose[1][2]) is a six-member Post-Hardcore band from Davison, Michigan. ... Amber Pacific is a pop punk band that formed in 2002 as a trio of high school juniors who performed locally in their Seattle hometown just for kicks under the name Follow Through. ...

Additionally, Gary McDaniel, former bassist of Black Flag, went by the stage name Chuck Dukowski and Mike Williams, vocalist for the New Orleans band Eyehategod has cited the works of Bukowski as one of the primary influences in his writing.^{[citation needed]} Black Flag was a hardcore punk band formed in 1976 in southern California, largely as the brainchild of Greg Ginn: the guitarist, primary songwriter and sole continuous member through multiple personnel changes. ... Chuck Dukowski is the stage name of Gary McDaniel, born February 1, 1954. ... Eyehategod is an American sludgecore band from New Orleans, who were formed in 1988,they have become one of the most important bands to emerge from the Nola metal scene. ... Eyehategod is an American sludgecore band from Louisiana who are known for their dark, sludgy riffs combined with equally dark lyrics. ...

H.I.M. frontman Ville Valo has a portrait of Bukowski tattooed on his forearm. HiM is a dub influenced post-rock group formed in 1995 by Doug Scharin, drummer for the bands Rex and June of 44. ... Ville Hermanni Valo ( ) (born November 22, 1976), is a Finnish singer, songwriter and frontman of the Finnish rock band HIM. They have released six studio albums and four compilation albums. ...

Modest Mouse featured a song titled "Bukowski" on their album "Good News for People Who Love Bad News".

Film and television

Henry Charles Bukowski and his works have been the subject of several films. The earliest is Tales of Ordinary Madness (original title: Storie di ordinaria follia) by Italian director Marco Ferreri and starring Ben Gazzara and Ornella Muti. The movie, which is largely based on some of Bukowski's tales, was not very commercially successful, possibly because of its uncompromising style. Tales of Ordinary Madness (it: Storie di ordinaria follia) (fr: Conte de la folie ordinaire) is a 1981 film by Italian director Marco Ferreri. ... Marco Ferreri was an Italian film director, actor and screen writer (May 11, 1928 in Milan - May 9, 1997 in Paris). ... Ben Gazzara (born Biagio Anthony Gazzara on August 28, 1930, in New York City) is an American actor in television and motion pictures. ... Ornella Muti at Cannes, 2000. ...

Next came his own autobiographical screenplay for the 1987 film Barfly. In the documentary, Bukowski: Born Into This, he offers his opinion that the Mickey Rourke portrayal of him in Barfly was "misdone". Also released in 1987 was the Belgian movie Crazy love, which in part was based on the short story The copulating mermaid of Venice, California. 2005 saw the release of the movie Factotum starring Matt Dillon; the movie is based on the novel of the same name, which centers on Henry Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of Bukowski, as he struggles from one job to the next, all the while pursuing his true interests: alcohol, women and writing. This latter film appears to be a second attempt at verisimilitude in depicting a portion of his life even though it makes no pretense of occurring in the appropriate decade. Whereas in Barfly the focus is more on women, drinking and bare-knuckle boxing, in Factotum it is the writing which receives greater emphasis. Barfly is a 1987 feature film. ... Look up barfly in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Factotum is a film directed by Bent Hamer, adapted from the novel by Charles Bukowski. ... Matthew Raymond Matt Dillon (born February 18, 1964) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor. ... Factotum is a 1975 novel by Charles Bukowski in which Henry Chinaski, Bukowskis alter ego, makes his way from one menial job to the next (hence a factotum). ... Henry Hank Chinaski is the protagonist of five novels by Charles Bukowski, as well as many short stories and poems. ... Look up barfly in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Factotum is a film directed by Bent Hamer, adapted from the novel by Charles Bukowski. ...

The Charles Bukowski Tapes is a 240 minute, 52 chapter collection of interviews directed by and conducted by Barfly director Barbet Schroeder. They were shot in 1985 and released on DVD in 2006. Barbet Schroeder (born August 26, 1941 in Teheran to a Swiss diplomat father) is a movie director and producer who started his career in French cinema in the 1960s, working together with directors such as Jean-Luc Godard and Jacques Rivette. ...

Bukowski's short story The Suicide was made into an award winning short film in 2006 ^[10]. The lead role of Marvin Denning was played by Jeff Markey and the female lead, Diana, was played by Kinna McInroe. The film was directed by Jeff Markey.

In February 2007 it was announced that Gabor Csupo will be producing How the Dead Love, an animated film which will use four of Bukowski's short stories. There are rumors that Johnny Depp will voice this film's main character and will also produce the film with Csupo via Depp's production company, Infinitum Nihil. Gabor Csupo [gab-or tchoo-po] is a Hungarian-born animator and co-founder of Klasky Csupo, which made shows like Rugrats and Duckman. He is also a big fan of Frank Zappa, he credits the singer for helping him learn English and his collection of albums by Zappa were... John Christopher Depp II[1] (born June 9, 1963) is an American actor, best known for his frequent portrayals of offbeat and eccentric characters such as Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy and the titular character of Tim Burtons Edward Scissorhands. ... Infinitum Nihil is Johnny Depps production house that has largely been kept away from the public eye. ...

Bukowski is also mentioned in a scene in the movie Glory Daze, starring Ben Affleck. Glory Daze is a low-budget movie starring Ben Affleck, Sam Rockwell, and French Stewart. ... For the American cement businessman, see B. F. Affleck. ...

Bukowski is made reference to in the television series, Californication, episode 9. Hank's ex-girlfriend, Karen, refers to him as one of her favorite authors, and is later seen in the episode reading one of his books (Sifting Through the Madness for The Word, The Line, The Way: New Poems). Californication is a portmanteau word derived from bumper stickers frequently seen on cars in the state of Oregon during the late 1970s and early 1980s. ...

In the 1996 movie 'Swingers' the main character, Mike (Jon Favreau) has a copy of 'Hollywood' on the desk of his LA apartment.

In 2008 two DVDs were released by mondayMEDIA that are of the last two readings Bukowski ever gave, even though he lived for another 16 years. There's Gonna Be a God Damn Riot In Here from 1979 in Vancouver, Canada and The Last Straw from 1980 in Redondo Beach, California.

In season 5 of Beverly Hills 90210, Dylan is given a copy of "The Last Night Of The Earth Poems". Beverly Hills 90210 was a popular primetime television soap opera that aired from October 1990 to May 2000 on the Fox Network in the United States and subsequently on various networks around the world. ...

1995 saw the release of The Crossing Guard, written and directed by Sean Penn. In an epigraph, Penn dedicates the film to the memory of "my friend, Henry Charles Bukowski. I miss you." The film, starring Jack Nicholson and David Morse, with Anjelica Huston and Robin Wright Penn, concerns the aftermath of a fatal drunk driving accident. The Crossing Guard is a 1995 independent film directed and written by American actor Sean Penn. ...

In series 3 of the UK sitcom Peep Show one of the main characters, Jez, imagines himself perceived as a modern day Bukowski because of his drinking beer in a supermarket. Peep Show is a BAFTA award-winning British sitcom starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb. ...

In the film Sideways, the character Miles Raymond (an alcoholic and a writer) quotes from Bukowski. Sideways is a 2004 Academy Award-winning and Golden Globe Award-winning comedy/drama film, co-written and directed by Alexander Payne. ...

Theater

• In 1997 the igLoo theatrical group in New York City adapted Pulp to the stage.^[11]
• In 2000 29th Street Repertory, an Off-Off Broadway theater in New York City staged a production called South of No North based on Bukowski's stories from that collection.^[11]
• In March 2006, the Sacred Angel Fist Circle Of Note Gang Theater in Los Angeles staged Bukowsica!, a musical based on the life of Bukowski.
• On 14 August 2008, a play titled Bumming with Jane, inspired by the Charles Bukowski poem of the same name, will open at Belvoir St Theatre in Sydney, Australia

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Miscellaneous

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Henry Chinaski or 'Hank' is the protagonist of five novels by Charles Bukowski, as well as many short stories and poems. He is a consummate anti-hero: a misanthropic alcoholic who drifts from job to job and woman to woman. He is also an autobiographical character; like Bukowski, Chinaski grows up poor and has liaisons with mostly older women and spends many years in a post office job he hates. Henry Hank Chinaski is the protagonist of five novels by Charles Bukowski, as well as many short stories and poems. ...

A pair of taverns bearing his name opened in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts, some three years after his death, decorated in paintings and quotations from Bukowski and others. It hosts a Dead Author's Club of mugs engraved with a patron's favorite dead author. At least two other bars are known to have opened in his name: 'Bukowski's' was a successful bar in Vancouver, BC, in the Commercial Drive area for years before being sold. Many have argued that Bukowski would have liked the one on Commercial Drive most of all. There was also a bohemian-style dive bar in Sheffield, England named "Bukowski's", which closed a few years ago and is now a Thai restaurant. Another tavern bearing his name is located in the Malasaña zone of Madrid, Spain. Another successful bar named after Bukowski opened in Tel-Aviv, Israel in 2005, and has been a night-life attraction ever since. There is also a bar bearing his name in La Plata, Argentina and a bar in Glasgow, Scotland named Chinaski`s, in honour of his autobiographical character. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Boston redirects here. ... Location in Middlesex County in Massachusetts Coordinates: , Country State County Middlesex Settled 1630 Incorporated 1636 Government  - Type Mayor-City Council  - Mayor Kenneth Reeves (D) Area  - Total 7. ... For other uses, see Bohemian (disambiguation). ... The outdoor signage of a dive bar in Los Osos, CA, nicknamed the Marriage Breaker by locals A dive bar, or simply a dive, is a drinking establishment (or sometimes a restaurant) with a dated or run-down appearance and atmosphere. ... This article is about the city in England. ... This article is about the Spanish capital. ...

Ohad Naharin's Decadence includes an excerpt from George and Zalman (2006), in which five women repeat phrases of movement that coincide with the recording of a woman’s voice flatly reciting Bukowski's "making it" from Mockingbird Wish Me Luck, which is also repeated with accumulated instructions: “Ignore all possible concepts and possibilities. Ignore Beethoven. The spider. The Damnation of Faust. Just make it, babe. Make it…” Although the dancers repeat the same movement throughout this excerpt, they change formations and each have solos while the others stand in the background.

On May 30, 2008, Thomas Friedman, the popular New York Times columnist who has sold millions of books covering American foreign policy, read the last chapter of his new book "Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution, and How It can Renew America" (due to be released In August of 2008) to a book expos audience on the CSPAN cable network. Bukowski and his book of poems "What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through The Fire" is mentioned in the last chapter of Friedman's new book, as read aloud by Friedman to the audience.

Bibliography

The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories is a collection of anecdotal short stories by American author Charles Bukowski. ... Notes of a Dirty Old Man is a collection of articles written by Charles Bukowski for the Open Press newspaper. ... Post Office is a 1971 novel written by Charles Bukowski. ... South of No North is a collection of short stories by Charles Bukowski, the so-called Poet Laureate of Skid Row, originally published in 1973 as South of No North: Stories of the Buried Life by John Martins Black Sparrow Press. ... Factotum is a 1975 novel by Charles Bukowski in which Henry Chinaski, Bukowskis alter ego, makes his way from one menial job to the next (hence a factotum). ... Women is a 1978 novel written by Charles Bukowski, starring his semi-autobiographical character Henry Chinaski. ... Ham On Rye, By Charles Bukowski. ... Robert Dennis Crumb (born August 30, 1943), often credited simply as R. Crumb, is an American artist and illustrator recognized for the distinctive style of his drawings and his critical, satirical, subversive view of the American mainstream. ... Robert Dennis Crumb (born August 30, 1943), often credited simply as R. Crumb, is an American artist and illustrator recognized for the distinctive style of his drawings and his critical, satirical, subversive view of the American mainstream. ... Barfly is a 1987 feature film. ... Hollywood (ISBN 0876857659) is a 1989 novel by Charles Bukowski which fictionalizes his experiences surrounding the film Barfly. ... Pulp is the last completed novel by Los Angeles poet and writer Charles Bukowski. ... This book is in the form of a computer diary kept by Charles Bukowski, spanning 1991 to 1993. ...

Biographies

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• Hugh Fox - Charles Bukowski A Critical and Bibliographical Study - 1969
• Jory Sherman - Bukowski: Friendship, Fame & Bestial Myth - 1981
• Neeli Cherkowski - Bukowski - A Life - 1991
• Russell Harrison - Against The American Dream - 1994
• Amber O'Neil - Blowing My Hero - 1995
• Gerald Locklin - Charles Bukowski: A Sure Bet - 1996
• Steve Richmond - Spinning Off Bukowski - 1996
• A.D. Winans - The Charles Bukowski/Second Coming Years - 1996
• Gay Brewer - Charles Bukowski, Twayne's United States Authors Series - 1997
• Jim Christy - The Buk Book - 1997
• John Thomas - Bukowski In The Bathtub - 1997
• Ann Menebroker - Surviving Bukowski - 1998
• Carlos Polimeni - Bukowski For Beginners - 1998
• Howard Sounes - Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life - 1998
• Jean-Francois Duval - Bukowski and The Beats - 2000
• Gundolf S. Freyermuth - That's it. - 2000
• Daniel Weizmann (editor) - Drinking with Bukowski - Recollections of the Poet Laureate of Skid Row - 2000
• Aubrey Malone - the hunchback of east Hollywood - 2003
• Jon Edgar Webb Jr. - Jon, Lou, Bukowski and Me - 2003
• Ben Pleasants - Visceral Bukowski - 2004
• Michael Gray Baughan - Charles Bukowski - 2004
• Enrico Francheschini - I'm Bukowski, and then? - 2005
• Barry Miles - Charles Bukowski - 2005
• Tom Russell - Tough Company - 2005 .
• David Charlson - Charles Bukowski: Autobiographer, Gender Critic, Iconoclast - 2005

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References

• An Introduction to Charles Bukowski
• The Hunchback of East Hollywood : A Biography of Charles Bukowski by Aubrey Malone (Critical Vision, 2003)
• Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life by Howard Sounes (Grove Press, 1999)
• Aaron Krumhansl - A Descriptive Bibliography of the Primary Publications of Charles Bukowski (Black Sparrow Press, 1999)
• Sanford Dorbin - A Bibliography of Charles Bukowski (Black Sparrow Press, 1969)
• University of Southern California Department of Special Collections

Notes

South of No North is a collection of short stories by Charles Bukowski, the so-called Poet Laureate of Skid Row, originally published in 1973 as South of No North: Stories of the Buried Life by John Martins Black Sparrow Press. ... This just IN !!!:paris hiltons new dog. ...

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