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"Acclaimed writer Charles Bukowski turns his signature eye on the world of felines. A series of essays and poems all about cats, Bukowski's classic funny and frank tone becomes, at times, even endearing as he explores and honors the majestic creatures and our relationship with them." --Bustle

Felines touched a vulnerable spot in the unfathomable soul of Charles Bukowski, the Dirty Old Man of American letters. For the writer, there was something elemental about these inscrutable creatures, whose searing gaze could penetrate deep into our beings. Bukowski considered cats to be forces...

Eines Tages steht das Kind plötzlich da, die Haare feuerrot leuchtend inmitten des Kiefernwaldes, und gehört niemandem. Skalde nimmt es mit zu sich, obwohl sie weiß, dass die anderen, die in der abgelegenen Gegend leben, das nicht dulden werden. Skalde und ihre Mutter Edith gehörten selbst nie richtig zur Gemeinschaft, seit Edith vor mehr als zwei Jahrzehnten plötzlich triefend am Ufer des Flusses stand, von dem die Anderen sich erhofft hatten, er würde sie vor der im Chaos versinkenden Welt beschützen. Mutter und Tochter lieben einander auch, weil ihnen nichts übrig bleibt: Gegen...

Everyone s favorite Dirty Old Man returns with a new volume of uncollected work. Charles Bukowski (19201994), one of the most outrageous figures of twentieth-century American literature, was so prolific that many significant pieces never found their way into his books. "Absence of the Hero" contains much of his earliest fiction, unseen in decades, as well as a number of previously unpublished stories and essays. The classic Bukowskian obsessions are here: sex, booze, and gambling, along with trenchant analysis of what he calls "Playing and Being the Pet." Among the book's highlights are...

One of Charles Bukowski's best, this beer-soaked, deliciously degenerate novel follows the wanderings of aspiring writer Henry Chinaski across World War II-era America. Deferred from military service, Chinaski travels from city to city, moving listlessly from one odd job to another, always needing money but never badly enough to keep a job. His day-to-day existence spirals into an endless litany of pathetic whores, sordid rooms, dreary embraces, and drunken brawls, as he makes his bitter, brilliant way from one drink to the next.

Charles Bukowski's posthumous legend continues to...

The screenplay of the 1987 movie, as written by Charles Bukowski.

How-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in flea-bitten apartments, Chinaski sees his poetic star rising at last. Now, at fifty, he is reveling in his sudden rock-star life, running three hundred hangovers a year, and maintaining a sex life that would cripple Casanova.

With all of Bukowski's trademark humor and gritty, dark honesty, this 1978 follow-up to Post Office and Factotum is an uncompromising account of life on...

Septuagenarian Stew is a combination of poetry and stories written by Charles Bukowski that delve into the lives of different people on the backstreets of Los Angeles. He writes of the housewife, the bum, the gambler and the celebrity to evoke a portrait of Los Angeles