Articles tagged "charles bukowski"

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The Other Fante

by Justin M. Norton

[28.Jul.09] :. Novelist John Fante has, since his death, attained a level of fame that eluded him in life in part because of the relentless endorsement of fellow Los Angeles author and poet Charles Bukowski. Fante...

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La Grande Bouffe & Tales of Ordinary Madness

by Thomas Britt

[27.May.09] :. La Grande Bouffe and Tales of Ordinary Madness are products of a dark worldview. Neither offers solutions about how to improve a disintegrating society.

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Column: Deconstruction Zone

The Hardest Work Imaginable: Bukowski’s Wine-Stained Notebook

by Rodger Jacobs

[14.Nov.08] :. Fear, one must understand, is the lubricant that keeps the wheels of human progress greased. Charles Bukowski understood this concept all too well.

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Bukowski: What Lies Beneath

by Jennifer Makowsky

[7.Oct.08] :. During the rare moments when Charles Bukowski's vulnerable side are shown, they manage to break through the "dirty old man" parody of himself that he had become.

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Film DVD Review

Bukowski at Bellevue (2004)

by Brian James

[26.Jul.04] :. The man had a soul, and the contribution of this lonely fact to American art is worth remembering when all the other nonsense is rightfully forgotten.

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Books Review

Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way by Charles Bukowski

by Andy Fogle

[12.Feb.03] :. 'Regular people' can read and appreciate Bukowski. I doubt scholars will find a distinct identity in each successive volume of his posthumous work, but that doesn't seem terribly unusual to me.

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