In Charles Bukowski‘s classic 1972 collection of short stories, “Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness,” the President of the United States is kidnapped, and his ...

Born from dreams of celluloid, Orestes is a Greek-American writer based in London with degrees in Screenwriting, Film Studies, and Comparative Literature, as well as years of experience in ...

When HarperCollins and Ecco Press acquired part of the Black Sparrow imprint early this year, one big prize was the sprawling, long-popular oeuvre of Charles Bukowski (Barfly; Ham on Rye; Love Is a ...

Fond memories of one of the loopiest lead performances of the last 20 years – Mickey Rourke’s in “Barfly” – are rekindled with the release of “Factotum.” Rourke’s ether-filled turn was based on writer ...

I think the last time I wrote about Charles Bukowski was with the release of the 1987 film “Barfly,” which he wrote. That was a dizzy, lyrical look at the youth of the boozy writer, with Mickey Rourke ...

The importance of alcohol to literary genius has always been exaggerated, particularly by literary geniuses. That seems to be the case with Charles Bukowski, the late Los Angeles poet and novelist who ...