THE BEATS

After toiling in obscurity for years, Charles Bukowski suddenly found fame in 1967 with his autobiographical newspaper column, "Notes of a Dirty Old Man," and a book of that name in 1969. He continued writing this column, in one form or another, through the mid-1980s. More Notes of a Dirty Old Man gathers many uncollected gems from the column's twenty-year run. Learn More

For the first time, the definitive edition of a book acclaimed by Newsweek as 'a masterpiece. Learn More

'People come to my door - too many of them really - and knock to tell me Notes of a Dirty Old Man turns them on.' Learn More

This surrealist novel is part sci-fi, part Swiftian parody, and always pure Burroughs. Learn More

Poems of sex, gambling and drinking! Learn More

Charles Bukowski (1920-1994), one of the most outrageous and controversial figures of twentieth-century American literature, was so prolific that many important pieces were never collected during his lifetime. Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook is a substantial selection of these wide-ranging works, most of which have been unavailable since their original appearance in underground newspapers, literary journals, and even porn magazines. Learn More

'It began as a mistake.' By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life to the U.S. Postal Service. Learn More

Bukowksi's final novel is a departure from his usual semi-autobiographical tales of drunkeness and debauchery. Learn More

For more than three decades, while its writer's world fame increases, Queer remained unpublished because of its forthright depiction of homosexual longings. Learn More