Henry Charles Bukowski (/buːˈkaʊski/ boo-KOW-skee; born Heinrich Karl Bukowski, German: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈkaʁl buˈkɔfski]; August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was...
53 KB (6,353 words) - 00:12, 15 August 2024
Barfly (film) (category Films based on works by Charles Bukowski)
semi-autobiography of poet/author Charles Bukowski during the time he spent drinking heavily in Los Angeles, and it presents Bukowski's alter ego Henry Chinaski...
16 KB (1,780 words) - 07:24, 20 June 2024
Linda King (section Relationship With Charles Bukowski)
She is best known for having been the girlfriend of American writer Charles Bukowski for several years in the early 1970s. Born in 1940, King grew up in...
7 KB (801 words) - 16:03, 2 March 2024
Henry Charles "Hank" Chinaski is the literary alter ego of the American writer Charles Bukowski, appearing in five of Bukowski's novels, a number of his...
4 KB (444 words) - 19:52, 13 June 2024
Hollywood is a 1989 novel by Charles Bukowski which fictionalizes his experiences writing the screenplay for the film Barfly and taking part in its tumultuous...
5 KB (504 words) - 15:45, 17 February 2024
Bukowski is a 1973 documentary film produced by Taylor Hackford and directed by Richard Davies. Bukowski follows Los Angeles poet Charles Bukowski to San...
5 KB (406 words) - 01:27, 1 January 2024
Women is a 1978 novel written by Charles Bukowski, starring his semi-autobiographical character Henry Chinaski. In contrast to Factotum, Post Office and...
9 KB (1,147 words) - 10:57, 18 July 2024
The Charles Bukowski Tapes are a collection of short interviews with the American writer/poet Charles Bukowski, filmed and assembled by Barbet Schroeder...
3 KB (248 words) - 04:09, 10 April 2024
Sparrow Press. As a publisher, he is best known for his work with Charles Bukowski, John Fante, and Paul Bowles. He is based in Santa Rosa, California...
6 KB (616 words) - 23:46, 23 August 2022
Apollo 440 (section Charles Bukowski)
the Gods" (6:18) features audio quotes from the 1970s video performance "Bukowski at Bellevue". The quotes are all taken from a piece entitled "Soup, Cosmos...
23 KB (1,726 words) - 01:02, 29 July 2024
Bukowski: Born Into This is a 2003 American documentary film about American author Charles Bukowski. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the...
2 KB (126 words) - 07:06, 17 April 2024
Ham on Rye (category Novels by Charles Bukowski)
by American author and poet Charles Bukowski. Written in the first person, the novel follows Henry Chinaski, Bukowski's thinly veiled alter ego, during...
16 KB (2,386 words) - 22:29, 6 November 2023
Charles Bukowski's work has influenced popular culture many times over in many forms, and his work has been referenced in film, television, music and theater...
12 KB (1,411 words) - 20:34, 13 June 2024
Post Office (novel) (category Novels by Charles Bukowski)
novel written by American writer Charles Bukowski, published in 1971. The book is an autobiographical memoir of Bukowski's years working at the United States...
5 KB (490 words) - 08:29, 14 March 2024
Factotum (novel) (category Novels by Charles Bukowski)
author Charles Bukowski. It is Bukowski’s second novel and a prequel to Post Office (1971). Set in the 1940s, the plot follows Henry Chinaski, Bukowski's perpetually...
4 KB (346 words) - 23:33, 26 September 2023
Notes of a Dirty Old Man (category Books by Charles Bukowski)
(1969) is a collection of underground newspaper columns written by Charles Bukowski for the Open City newspaper that were collated and published by Essex...
5 KB (839 words) - 18:26, 23 June 2024
Pulp (novel) (category Novels by Charles Bukowski)
completed novel by Los Angeles poet and writer Charles Bukowski. It was published in 1994, shortly before Bukowski's death. He began writing it in 1991 and encountered...
7 KB (748 words) - 21:41, 22 February 2024
its peak until poet Charles Bukowski led the reissue of the novel by Black Sparrow Press in 1980, alongside a foreword by Bukowski. Arturo Dominic Bandini...
10 KB (1,255 words) - 22:47, 14 August 2024
relationship with poet Charles Bukowski, with whom she had her fifth daughter and his only child, Marina Louise Bukowski. Charles Bukowski wrote a poem about...
4 KB (318 words) - 02:45, 15 August 2024
Factotum (film) (category Films based on works by Charles Bukowski)
adapted from the 1975 novel of the same name by Charles Bukowski. It stars Matt Dillon as Bukowski's alter ego, Henry Chinaski. Although events in the...
8 KB (841 words) - 22:24, 13 August 2024
borrowed from Charles Bukowski's poem "Dinosauria, We", which employs it as a cadence. The track "Cellz" opens with a sampled recording of Bukowski reading...
13 KB (751 words) - 03:13, 30 June 2024
Charles Bukowski is an American poet, novelist and short story writer. Bukowski may also refer to: Bukowski (surname) Bukowski (film), a 1973 documentary...
966 bytes (156 words) - 08:54, 14 April 2024
psychedelic culture and the "Notes of a Dirty Old Man" column by Charles Bukowski. Bryan was a journalist who quit the San Francisco Chronicle in 1964...
5 KB (551 words) - 03:48, 4 August 2023
Dirty realism (category Charles Bukowski)
include, according to Michael Hemmingson, the movement's "godfather" Charles Bukowski (1920–1994), as well as those who appeared in Granta 8, including Raymond...
5 KB (586 words) - 07:02, 5 August 2024
and style have influenced Charles Bukowski, who stated in his introduction to Ask the Dust that "Fante was my god". Bukowski dedicated poems to Fante,...
23 KB (2,149 words) - 05:10, 15 August 2024
chapters. The first chapter, Don't Try, is named after the philosophy of Charles Bukowski, who served as a major inspiration for the whole book. The chapters...
11 KB (1,144 words) - 09:51, 10 March 2024
Beat and Beat-influenced writers as Jack Kerouac, Lord Buckley, and Charles Bukowski; the primal rock & roll crunch of the Rolling Stones; the German cabaret...
129 KB (16,268 words) - 15:51, 15 August 2024
done to look like a packet of Zig-Zags In the poem The Shoelace by Charles Bukowski, Zig-Zag is mentioned: "...plenty of zigzag but no pot...." Afroman...
5 KB (517 words) - 17:43, 13 July 2024
Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness (category Short story collections by Charles Bukowski)
of short stories by Charles Bukowski, first published by City Lights Publishers in 1972. It was the first collection of Bukowski's stories to be published...
2 KB (156 words) - 19:32, 20 April 2022
friend of Charles Bukowski, whom he first met in 1970, when he arranged for Bukowski to give a reading at CSU, Long Beach. Whereas Bukowski was an avatar...
4 KB (392 words) - 12:48, 25 March 2024