After publishing more than fifty books in his lifetime, many of Bukowski's important stories and articles remain scattered or unpublished. This volume is an anthology of this dispersed work. Beginning with the early stories he published in magazines in the late 1940s, the book takes the reader on a countercultural journey through the literary battles of the fifties, the psychedelic turmoil of the sixties, the narcissistic pleasures of the seventies, and the Reagan-era dystopia of the eighties.
It also offers chronicles of his infamous public readings, reviews of his own work, hilarious installments of his newspaper column, and other newly discovered gems. And there's also room for the other Bukowski: a shrewd and eccentric literary critic, from his own "Manifesto" to his idiosyncratic assessments of Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, and others.







