THE BEATS
"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night, who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities..." - Allen Ginsberg, "Howl"
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Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook: Uncollected Stories and Essays, 1944-1990
$16.95Charles 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 -
Post Office
$15.00'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 -
Pulp: A Novel
$15.99Bukowksi's final novel is a departure from his usual semi-autobiographical tales of drunkeness and debauchery. Learn More -
Queer: A Novel (25th Anniversary Edition)
$15.00For more than three decades, while its writer's world fame increases, Queer remained unpublished because of its forthright depiction of homosexual longings. Learn More -
Screams From The Balcony: Selected Letters 1960 - 1970
$16.95The collected letters of Charles Bukowski. Learn More -
Septuagenarian Stew: Stories & Poems
$17.00Bukowski turns 70, and still churns out the poetry. Learn More -
Soft Machine
$12.00In NAKED LUNCH, Burroughs revealed his genius. In THE SOFT MACHINE he begins an adventure that will take us even further into the dark recesses of his imagination, a region where nothing is sacred, nothing is taboo. Learn More -
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Tales Of Ordinary Madness
$15.95Tales of Bukowski's own life and doings are as wild and weird as the very stories he writes. Learn More -
The Beats: A Graphic History
$15.95In The Beats: A Graphic History, those who were mad to live come back to life through artwork as pulsatingly vibrant as the movement itself. Told by Harvey Pekar and his frequent artistic collaborator Ed Piskor, and by a range of artists and writers, including feminist comic creator Trina Robbins and MAD Magazine artist Peter Kuper, The Beats takes us on a wild tour. Learn More
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