1994) was a German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambience of his adopted home city of Los Angeles. Bukowski’s work addresses the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships wi...
In many of the stories, characters were thought to be dying of consumption, viruses, fever, alcoholism, and madness. The weather well was as you might expect with long wet winters that made travel on dirt roads that were typical of the period difficult at best. ...
This was in the day when you could drive with very little worry that the police would bother you about your blood alcohol level. My mother drank Bacardi Light on ice. Sometimes she added water. The ice crunched as she shoveled it out of the ice bucket and dropped it in the glass. “C...