Charles Bukowski

"It began as a mistake." By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than 12 years of his life to the U.S. Postal Service.....

Bukowski's mad immortal origins, surfaced from the literary underground, have addicted legions of audiences who've recognized Bukowski as one of America's greatest realist writers and poets....

Addictive and instructive listening, Bukowski delivers the humanity and intelligence of all the unseen....

In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely years of his own hardscrabble youth in the raw voice of alter ego Henry Chinaski....

A Short Story from Tales of Ordinary Madness....

Good Poems includes poems about lovers, children, failure, everyday life, death, and transcendence....

This collection of Buk's grimmest diaries gives an insight into the noir and brutal Los Angeles that Bukowski observed and lived so well....

Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive...

Bukowski's alter ego, Henry Chinaski, returns, revelling in his eternal penchant for booze, women and horse-racing as he makes the precarious journey from poet to screenwriter....

Hot Water Music is a collection of short stories by Charles Bukowski, published in 1983.....

South of No North is a collection of short stories written by Charles Bukowski that explore loneliness and struggles on the fringes of society....

A powerful testament to the pleasures and miseries of a life in drink, and a window into the soul of one of our most beloved and enduring writers, On Drinking is the definitive collection of works on a subject that inspired and haunted Charles Bukowski for his entire life: alcohol....

Filled with his usual obsessions - sex, booze, gambling - More features Bukowski's offbeat insights into politics and literature and his tortured, violent relationships with women....

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....

A Short Story from Tales of Ordinary Madness....

Opening with the exotic Lady Death entering the gumshoe-writer's seedy office in pursuit of a writer named Celine....

The definitive collection from a writer whose transgressive legacy and raw, funny, acutely observant writing has left an enduring mark....

A short story from The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories....

On Cats offers Bukowski's musings on these beloved animals and their toughness and resiliency. He honors them as fighters, hunters, survivors who command awe....

A short story from The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories....