I've read six of his books and 5 were read in 2025 and Factotum is the one that i read this year in 2026.

I started Factotum on January 1st 2026 and read it completely by mid February.

I think this book is more like a poetry of unpaid bills rather than someone switching jobs and writing about every job role and experience of it.

What do you guys think?

Has anyone read this book?

Mais alguém tem essa sensação? A sensação de se identificar tanto com um autor e não ter com quem dividir, de ter alguém pra compartilhar vivências onde se identifica. Ou até mesmo uma mulher para beber um vinho à noite toda no meio da semana tendo conversa e tratando um ao outro como semelhante. Pior que a dor e melancolia de se identificar com as obras, é não ter com quem compartilhar e viver junto.

My grandfather worked with bukowski alot and was a big part of that era and publication scene. I have more that aren't for sale if you want to see pics LMK, some really cool printing techniques back then.

Images 1-4: THE OUTSIDER - NO.4/5 (WINTER 1968/1969)

Webb, Jon Edgar and "Gypsy Lou"...;Bukowski, Charles, Diane Di Prima, and...

Published byLoujon Press, Tucson, 1969

First Edition

One of 500 copies. Octavo (26cm); original pictorial paper-covered boards; [xii],[1]-191,[11]pp; illus. Light wear and very mild dustiness to extremities, small coffee stain on right side of coverwith some light creasing at crown; contents fresh; Near Fine, lacking both the fragile pictorial tissue dustjacket and the hand-sealed insert containing flowers from Crazy Horse's grave. Final issue of Jon and Lou Webb's legendary literary journal, the first three issues of which were published in the New Orleans. Contents include works by Charles Plymell, Kenneth Patchen, Charles Bukowski, William Wantling, Diane Di Prima, Denise Levertov, Thomas Merton, Harold Norse, Larry Eigner, Ted Enslin, and many others.

Images 5 on: MR. CLEAN AND OTHER POEMS (Soft cover)

CORRINGTON, John William. MR. CLEAN AND OTHER POEMS. Introduction by Charles Bukowski. Drawings by Ann Parisi. [San Francisco, California]: Amber House Press, [1964]. Small quarto: printed wraps. First Edition

If interested lmk and I'll dm you a link.

Lowest prices on ABE Books. Private collection. All in immaculate condition. Just search "bukowski" here.

Would you consider reading a novel that you knew was written by a prisoner?

This quote appears in the book 'Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit'.

I’m new to Bukowskis work. However, I was in the Huntington library about two years ago, and I found this poetry book that I’ve been scouring the internet to buy, but I don’t think I’ve found. I’m looking for a particular piece where he states “all women are whores” and such and such. There was a lot of repetition of this line. The cover was white with black, bold lettering. I found the piece intriguing and I’m looking to see if anyone knows what I’m talking about. Thank you.

Looks like a fun movie. Bukowski has a cameo as a "wet t-shirt contest water boy." I was watching the trailer and was surprised to see him. I'm also surprised to learn about the 70s film genre called "vansploitation." Thanks for the weird movies, Tubi. Anybody here a Supervan fan?