Social media users are again debating the merits of Charles Bukowski, the late Los Angeles-based writer known for his poetry describing a coarse, often boorish version of American masculinity replete ...

“Go all the way…” – 🎙️ Lex Fridman reciting Charles Bukowski In this haunting recital, Lex Fridman channels the raw intensity of Bukowski’s iconic words. We’ve reimagined the moment with a minimalist ...

Poet and novelist Charles Bukowski was notorious for his drinking and womanizing. Some called him a misogynist. But his work could also be tender and reveal truths about the human condition. Years ago ...

She’s Still Fighting Starbucks Four Years Later Baristas are on strike. Michelle Eisen isn’t going back to coffee or theater until they get a contract.

Charles Bukowski was called many things: “poet laureate of L.A. lowlife,” “the enfant terrible of the Meat School poets,” “the prophet of the underemployed” and “a flamboyant provincial.” Those ...

Bukowski's unmistakable persona—an ex-down-and-outer who wrote of racetracks, booze and loneliness in ragged, self-confident, free verse—made him one of the country's most popular poets long before he ...

Bukowski’s chatty free verse (and fiction) about disappointment, drunkenness, racetracks, flophouses, lust, sexual failure, poverty and late-life success amassed an enormous following by the time of ...

When Charles Bukowski died at 73, he left behind more than 45 volumes of poetry and prose, an oeuvre that to this day makes up the most entertaining affront ever delivered to modern letters. The books ...

Well, it was and still is, as Tom Waits has praised the poet ever since he discovered Bukowski. Waits, who has partially adopted Bukowski’s literary voice over the years has one song that stems ...