Posts Tagged ‘Bukowski’
Bukowski Photo Montage with Music by Johnny Cash
Posted: January 29, 2010 by Rodger Jacobs in Hideous Music and the Sound of Many ShotgunsTags: Bukowski, Johnny Cash, writers, writing
Reconstructing Bukowski
Posted: December 11, 2009 by Rodger Jacobs in Red Rock DiaryTags: Bukowski, Las Vegas, Summerlin, writers, writing
I was watching the Joy Behar Show on CNN Headline News this bone-chilling winter evening. The local weather report break tells me that we might get down to freezing temperatures here in Summerlin overnight; a storm front is coming in from … Bakersfield, California. Sometimes we get cold Arctic blasts from Idaho in the winter. I’m too accustomed [...]
Mr. Bukowski’s Bad Cup of Coffee
Posted: August 11, 2009 by Rodger Jacobs in Mr. Bukowski's Wild RideTags: Bukowski, fiction, Los Angeles
In the summer of his seventy-sixth year Bukowski frequented a hole-in-the-wall coffee shop on a lonely stretch of Santa Monica Boulevard near the old Pussycat Theater. He didn’t like the food that much or the bitter, battery-acid coffee that was rendered slightly tolerable by milk and sugar, and he certainly did not care for the greasy formica table [...]
Sunday Literary Supplement
Posted: August 9, 2009 by Rodger Jacobs in Sunday Literary SupplementTags: Alex Pruteanu, books, Bukowski, Darran Anderson, disappearing writers, Father Luke, Maud Newton, Swine, writers, writing
Hat tip to Maud Newton for this fascinating piece from 3:00 AM Magazine by Darran Anderson about the phenomenon of writers who have disappeared, thus enhancing their own mythology (Poe, Hart Crane, Ambrose Bierce, Beat writer Lew Welch, among others). One particularly outstanding line: Poe had stared into the abyss for too long perhaps and [...]
