These Words I Write
Keep Me From
Total Madness
Short Stories
Bukowski's Post-Absurdist, Post-Hemingway, Post-Porn stories are required reading for drunks, dropouts, writers,
would-bes, and has-beens.
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Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories.
Santa Rosa CA: Black Sparrow, 1996.
Santa Rosa CA: Black Sparrow, 1996.
The first posthumous collection of writing includes poetryand short stories.
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Bring Me Your Love.
Robert Crumb, illus.
Santa Rosa CA: Black Sparrow, 1983.
Robert Crumb, illus.
Santa Rosa CA: Black Sparrow, 1983.
Large-format chapbook illustrated by Robert Crumb. Harry visits his wife/girlfriend Gloria at a hospital
where she is recuperating from an unspecified illness and accusses Harry of infidelity.
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Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness.
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1972.
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1972.
A mammmoth collection of short stories written to support Bukowski after he quit working. Most of the
stories follow in the Hemingway tradition: violent, bawdy, talky, but with a twist, writing gone for broke,
and lost. City Lights reissued the collection in 1983 as Tales of Ordinary Madness and
The Most Beautiful Woman in Town.
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Hot Water Music.
Santa Barbara CA: Black Sparrow, 1983.
Santa Barbara CA: Black Sparrow, 1983.
Thirty-six short stories about artists, bums, and lovers in Los Angeles.
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The Most Beautiful Woman in Town.
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1983.
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1983.
City Lights
paperback
available for purchase from Amazon.com.
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Septuagenarian Stew.
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1990.
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1990.
Bukowski alive and writing at age 70. The poems have a weakness to them, but the stories are among his most
restrained, complete. Includes the two chapbook stories "There's No Business" and "Bring Me Your Love."
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South of No North: Stories of the Buried Life.
Los Angeles CA: Black Sparrow, 1973.
Los Angeles CA: Black Sparrow, 1973.
Continued adventures of Henry Chinaski.
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Tales of Ordinary Madness.
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1983.
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1983.
City Lights paperback available for purchase from Amazon.com.
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There's No Business.
Robert Crumb, illus.
Santa Rosa CA: Black Sparrow, 1984.
Robert Crumb, illus.
Santa Rosa CA: Black Sparrow, 1984.
Robert Crumb illustrates this story of Marty Hyman's last night on the stage. Hyman's come-backs to the
audience-crank are classic. Bukowski could have done standup. A beautiful book.