Among my favorite writers, Harvey Pekar and Charles Bukowski share ... when mowing the lawn. All this suffering turned him into a writer since it was the only way to cope with an impossible ...

After all, if the goal is to transcend yourself and cross boundaries, few things will help you on your way ... Bukowski does want to seem awfully nice — very much so. It’s interesting to go ...

Charles Bukowski ... out with their big boots—all at the same time.” It was a literary friendship. He encouraged me to write [about my experience as] a go-go dancer. He said, ‘You gotta ...