Long Distance Drunk - https://bukowski.net/database/detail.php?w=5706&Title=notes-of-a-dirty-old-man These disjointed stories gives us a glimpse into the brilliant and highly disturbed mind of a man who will drink anything, hump anything and say anything without the slightest tinge of embarassment, shame or remorse. It's actually pretty hard not to like the guy after reading a few of these semi-ranting short stories." —Greg Davidson, curiculummag.com

I don’t have any issue separating the man from the character... what I’m saying is only that the character of Bukowski, as written, felt just the slightest bit less honest this time around. Notes of a Dirty Old Man (1969) is a collection of underground newspaper columns written by Charles Bukowski for the Open City newspaper that were collated and published by Essex House in 1969. His short articles were marked by his trademark crude humor, as well as his attempts to present a "truthful" or objective viewpoint of various events in his life and his own subjective responses to those events. The series is currently published by City Lights Publishing Company but can also be found in Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook, which is a collection of some of Bukowski's rare and obscure works. I'm going to be photographing and listing a Charles Bukowski/ Stovepiper collection from '92/'93 soon. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2013-07-08 17:27:51 Bookplateleaf 0003 Boxid IA1117517 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City San Francisco Donor I Love You, Albert - https://bukowski.net/database/detail.php?w=5688&Title=notes-of-a-dirty-old-manThis article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Regrettably this piece of apeshit does not add much to the value. History is filled with tales of men falling apart, finding only short-lasting pleasures in sex and drugs, and describing it in detail, as if anyone cared about yet another low-life writer. This one stepped over the line a few times for me. It was very sexually aggressive and that really affected me on this read. You lose what little respect remains for the character of Bukowski and realise him finally as ineffectual and impotent in the face of the world. Obviously that has literary and educational merit... but what was gained felt a little hollow, because I didn’t believe it.

Decline And Fall - https://bukowski.net/database/displayContents.php?mag=856&Title=los-angeles-weekly-newssome men hope for revolution, but when you revolt and set up your new government you find your new government is still the same old Papa, he has only put on a cardboard mask.”

Nope--this is quite simply too gross for me. I did not finish it. I am 100% sure I do not want to continue, despite that I have enjoyed other books by the author. Often short stories don't work for me, but this is not the problem here. The writing is quite simply too crude and vulgar. Nor do the topics attract me. which were then put in the main part of the store), throw the now-coverless books away and return the covers only to the office so that they could get credit from the publisher. There is plenty of booze and debauchery in this collection. There were a few surprises here too, both good and bad. One good surprise was a short piece about Bukowski meeting Neal Cassady shortly before he died. It is well written, interesting and I think he does a nice summation of Cassady at the end of his life. He says that "Kerouac has written your other chapters". One disappointing surprise was Bukowski's opinion of Burroughs - "Burroughs is a very dull writer". He truly thinks Celine is the bee's knees. I have read some Celine and think he is a pretty good writer but terribly pessimistic and misanthropic - sounds right up Buk's lane huh? The Death Of The Father I - https://bukowski.net/database/detail.php?w=5709&Title=notes-of-a-dirty-old-man So, what I'm getting at is to expand on REKRAB's comment, they could have printed 28,000 copies, but it is completely possible that 95% of them were destroyed. That assumes that publishers/bookstores work the same in the UK.Thrown into these situations, via all you know of the man prior, you cannot believe him when he tells you what he does. So either all he said before was a lie, or this is a new resignation of the spirit to drink. How terrible.

I get very tired of the precious intellects who must speak diamonds every time they open their mouths. ”

A compilation of Charles Bukowski's underground articles from his column "Notes of a Dirty Old Man" appears here in book form. Bukowski's reasoning for self-describing himself as a 'dirty old man' rings true in this book.