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August 16, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Charles Bukowski: On Drinking

On Drinking Charles Bukowski Ecco Charles Bukowski would have been 100 if he was still alive today – and of course making it to his 70s was, for him, the equivalent of living to nearly 200. He was all but dead in his 20s. And 30s. And 50s. And drinking was his thing. The hard […]

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June 24, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: On Reading. And Writing.

Reading Charles Bukowski and Stephen King, that was the thing. Those were the guys.  And yet I hardly ever think of them now.  Certainly don’t read them.  It’s not that I hate their words or worlds or works,  I’ve just moved on. That’s what is supposed to happen.  That’s what you’re supposed to do.   I’m looking – without actively looking – for the next thing to   get hooked on, to find and […]

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January 30, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Charles Bukowski: On Cats

On Cats Charles Bukowski Ecco I recently sold all of my Bukowski books – well, the way second-hand dealers work it’s fairer to say I gave them away…but that’s cool, I wasn’t out to make a big score, I just wanted to move them on; liked the idea of letting them have a turn on […]

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August 30, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Charles Bukowski: On Writing

On Writing Charles Bukowski Ecco; 1st Edition edition Back a couple of decades ago I devoured almost anything and nearly everything with the Bukowski name attached, film adaptations, spoken-word CDs, tributes, and the words: novels, short stories, screenplays, travel vignettes, diary entries, columns and the poems, mostly the poems – some of the printed correspondence […]