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The reading was produced by fan/friend Dennis Del Torre, who rented a venue, Viking Hall, paid Bukowski and his wife Linda to fly up, hired a video crew, promoted the event, and sold tickets. In June 2006, Bukowski's literary archive was donated by his widow to the Huntington Library in San Marino, California.

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Not that boozing it up is not interesting, but it's been done so much since then that it lost some of the initial impact Charles Bukowskiintended for his transgression. He's scared, amused, almost waiting for the other shoe to drop, if you will, like he's lost his young man's anger, wants to live in peace, but, Jesus, these women keep sending these letters, and. Toda la novela es una sucesión de experiencias similares: Chinaski, incapaz de resistirse al atractivo de unas bonitas piernas y a la perspectiva de un buen polvo, se pelea con su pareja, esta intenta pagarle con la misma moneda, no siempre de forma infructuosa, se reconcilian entre botellas y vomitonas (Chinaski expulsa casi más que traga), follan si la borrachera lo permite y vuelta a empezar, así una y otra vez desde Lydia, pasando por Dee Dee, Nicole, Mindy, Katherine, Joanna, Tammie, Mercedes, Cecilia, Liza, el tándem Gertrude-Hilda, Cassie, Debra, Sara, Tessie, Iris, Tanya, Valerie y Valencia, hasta llegar nuevamente a Sara, la que se supone fue su mujer Linda Lee en la vida real.While reading Bukowski's “Women”, I started to wonder about the meaning-of-it-all, but had to quickly stop myself from this questioning, and keep on reading. Bukowski died of leukemia on March 9, 1994, in San Pedro, aged 73, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp.

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The Chinaski family includes a loving German mother, a father who is harsh and cruel to his wife and son, and a grandfather who is a beatific drunk. According to Ecco Press, the 2007 release The People Look Like Flowers at Last will be his final posthumous release, as now all his once-unpublished work has been made available. Beginning in 1967, Bukowski wrote the column Notes of a Dirty Old Man for Los Angeles' Open City, an underground newspaper. a b Bukowski, Charles Run with the hunted: a Charles Bukowski reader, Edited by John Martin (Ecco, 2003), pp. Bukowski also performed live readings of his works, beginning in 1962 on radio station KPFK in Los Angeles and increasing in frequency through the 1970s.

British indie band The Boo Radleys included a track named "Charles Bukowski is dead" on their 1994 album Wake Up!

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a b Jonathan Smith, "'I Never Saw Him Drunk': An Interview With Bukowski's Longtime Publisher," Vice, June 20, 2014. It tells the tale of Bukowski’s alter ego Henry Chinaski finding a job at the Los Angeles Post Office. Published shortly before his death in 1994, it took Bukowski almost three years to complete this novel. Tenía cincuenta años y no me había acostado con una mujer desde hacía cuatro… Yo había estado casado años antes, a la edad de 35.His paternal grandfather, Leonard Bukowski, had moved to the United States from Imperial Germany in the 1880s. Las estrellas de rock conseguían culos; los buenos boxeadores conseguían culos; los grandes toreros conseguían vírgenes.