The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #221: Noah C. Lekas
“Hopefully, the takeaway is the journey.”
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Posts Tagged: bukowski
The Rumpus Interview with Will Evans
Will Evans, Executive Director of Deep Vellum Publishing, talks about publishing translated works as well as the Texas and Dallas literary scene he wants to help grow.
...moreThe Next Bukowski of Tattooing?
Jonathan Shaw is a writer and tattoo artist who has inked just about everybody. He’s at the top of his game. Check out this podcast and find out more.
...moreBukowski On Writing
I didn’t pay a hell of a lot of attention to grammar, and when I write it is for the love of the word, the color, like tossing paint on a canvas, and using a lot of ear and having read a bit here and there, I generally come out ok, but technically I don’t […]
...moreSpeculating in Bangkok
Yet the more I imagined this scene, the more I had read between the novels of Bukowski’s lowly dredge through life and Dick’s mind-bending canon of science fiction, I began to see more and more of an affinity between the two. Both were working stiffs with a love of the word—Bukowski famously making his menial […]
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Lines Like Loss, Like Leaving
I know you understand me when I tell you this. I know you understand dead of night. Tell me what lines you’ve read so I know how to imagine you. Tell me who is gone. Tell me if you, like me, always think of going.
...moreLA Star Map: Graveyard Edition
Readers who visit Paris or London in the hopes of paying their respects to departed authors can do so in one fell swoop, with graves concentrated in a single, central location; visitors to LA, however, will have to do some schlepping. The LA Times offers a handy guide to the graves of the rich and […]
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Nick Cave Monday #42: “We Call Upon the Author”
Many songs by Nick have a way of throwing you down for a good tickling and then, when everything is happy times, he’ll lyrically smack you upside the head. Pay attention, he’s going deeper than that. He’ll sing you a lullaby before dropping you to the floor and sticking his boot on your throat. As […]
...moreRumpus Bukowski
Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott reading Charles Bukowski for the City Lights Podcast.
...moreThe Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Good things happen when people who grow up listening to Thriller become poets. There’s going to be a new Bukowski exhibit down Southern California way, including his “annotated racing forms” that will teach you his system for playing the horses. Jason Pinter takes on the idea that men don’t read. “I guess in this world, […]
...moreHollywood & Western
“Charles Bukowski gives a tour of Hollywood and Western, highlighting his favorite bars, hangouts, hookers and dope-dealers.” From The Charles Bukowski Tapes (1985), by Barbet Schroeder.
...moreImages of Bukowski We Didn’t Use
Not because they weren’t good, but because Ian Huebert offered to do original art for the essay by Charles Bukowski.
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