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 ...

In his poems and stories, Bukowski described the futility of ... He wanted to be a writer but he didn’t know how to go about it. Like all good writers, he read avidly – especially Hemingway ...