Forum / Bukowski?

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    Meghan Acord
    May 02, 05:07pm

    anyone on here a fan (or not) of charles bukowski?

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    Marc Nash
    May 02, 05:36pm

    Not, prefer Hubert Selby Junior for writing about that realm.

    Having said that, I do accord Chick for his 'Barfly' archetype. I assume he was the first to portray such a personality. Mamet et al should acknowledge their debt to him accordingly. I do, though it might annoy the bejesus out of him that my novel's barfly is female, cos Chuck was kinda down on the feminine of the species.

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    Darryl Price
    May 03, 03:54pm

    I am. Have always been since the Black Sparrow days.Drowning in flame, burning in water. He wrote beautifully at times, but was a regular old fart when it comes right down to it. So?Mockingbird wish me luck.He did the work. He put in the hours, the days, the years, the life. One could go through each and every book and cut out some of the most beautiful sentences ever made and make the case for him, but why bother? It's there for the taking.He found beauty everywhere, but he wasn't likely to give up truth on its behalf. Rough. Yeah. Pretty tough stuff for a guy who liked cats, old cars,sex,gambling, classical music and boozing it up.Scaring the shit out of old ladies was just icing on the cake. And oh yeah writing a ton of remarkable and original stuff on a typewriter almost every day of his life.

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    Marc Nash
    May 03, 04:36pm

    Interesting point about living the life Darryl. Hemingway, Chuck, Burroughs etc. Doesn't seem hardly possible now in this media/information saturated times. Living like a hermit might now be the only living a life for a writer?

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    Matt Dennison
    May 03, 04:45pm

    Darryl
    +1

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    Meghan Acord
    May 04, 08:39am

    really well-put darryl! marc, i haven't read selby jr but i will now. i guess he's just the only poet i've read in a long time who really fleshed out the thoughts like i'd like to in my own writing but never have...and i have to say i enjoy his flair for the disturbing.

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    Walter Bjorkman
    May 04, 11:03am

    selby jr preceeded me at my grammar school by some years. On dust jackets it proclaims he graduated from P.S. 102, that's it, no HS or college

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    Bill Yarrow
    May 04, 09:17pm

    Love reading Bukowski. Don't want to write like him.

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