INDEX

a

‘Aftermath of a Lengthy Rejection Slip’, 39

All the Assholes in the World and Mine, 62

‘Apostrophes’, 110–111

b

Baker, Jane Cooney, 41–43, 45–47, 49

Barfly, 42, 125–127, 129

Beat poets, 32

Beighle, Linda Lee, 94–96, 100–102, 105, 106, 109, 123–124, 129, 135

‘Bluebird’, 136

‘Bukowski’ (documentary), 84–86

Bukowski, Charles

acne, 10

alcohol, 10, 32, 43, 48, 51–52, 55, 56, 85–86, 91, 97, 122–124, 131

birth, 3–4

childhood, 3–5, 21, 114

death, 145

depression, 40

draft, 38

drugs, 32, 86

early reading, 15, 17–19

education, 14–15, 17–21, 26–27, 114

employment, 23–26

Europe, visits to, 109–112

first writings, 14, 28–29, 35, 36, 39–40

gambling, 32, 35, 36, 55

illness, 48, 50–52, 54, 124–125, 128, 135, 145

music, 32

poetry, 52, 54, 66, 118, 135, 136

politics, 27, 30, 32, 57–59

post office, work at, 48–49, 54, 65, 68, 72–73, 75, 79

relationship with father, 8–9, 10, 11, 22, 28–29, 53, 55

relationship with mother, 6, 8, 22, 38, 53, 54

sex, 44, 55, 83, 96–98

short stories, 28, 39, 88, 125

women, attitude to, 44

writing style, 17, 44, 53, 62–64, 66–67

Bukowski, Henry (father), 3–4, 7–10, 11–12, 22, 28, 29, 50, 53, 54

Bukowski, Katherine (mother), 4, 6–7, 22, 38, 53, 54

Bukowski, Leonard (grandfather), 4

Bukowski, Marina (daughter), 70–71

Burnett, Whit, 39

‘The Burning of the Dream ’, 18

Burroughs, William, 32, 67

c

Chandler, Raymond, 140

Cherkovski, Neeli, 116–117, 119–120, 127, 137

Chinaski, Henry, 74, 75, 99, 113, 138, 142

Ciotto, Paul, 127

City College, 26

Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts, 62

‘Consummation of Grief’, 16

‘Cornered’, 136

Corso, Gregory, 32

Crazy Love (Love is a Dog from Hell), 120

Crosby, Caresse, 41

d

‘dear pa and ma’, 53

Decameron, 96

Deruddere, Dominique, 120

Dreiser, Theodore, 15, 67

Dunaway, Faye, 129

e

‘8-count’, 136

Erections, Ejaculations and General Tales of Ordinary Madness, 88

f

‘Face of a Political Candidate on a Street Billboard’, 59

Factotum, 88, 90–92, 97, 113

Fante, John, 15

Faulkner, William, 67

‘Fear and Madness’, 108

Ferreri, Marco, 120

Fett, Heinrich (uncle), 109

Fett, Katherine, see Bukowski, Katherine

‘Flophouse’, 37

Flower, Fist and Bestial Wail, 56, 60

‘footnote upon the construction of the masses’, 78

Frye, Barbara, 54

‘The Genius of the Crowd’, 77

g

Ginsberg, Allen, 32, 57

Griffith, E.V., 56

‘Guts’, 89

h

Hackford, Taylor, 84–86

Ham on Rye, 25, 101, 113–114

Hank: The Life of Charles Bukowski, 116–117

Hearse, 56

Hemingway, Ernest, 15, 32, 63, 67

Hollywood, 102–103, 128–131, 133–134

Hopper, Dennis, 132

Hot Water Music, 125

i

‘III’, 145

k

Kerjan, Liliane, 141

Kerouac, Jack, 32

King, Linda, 83

Krause, Emilie (grandmother), 4

l

Love is a Dog from Hell, 101

Los Angeles, 4, 30, 34, 73, 102, 117–118, 139

Los Angeles Times, 127

m

Madonna, 132

‘A Man's Woman’, 44

Martin, John, 74, 137

McCullers, Carson, 63

Miller, Henry, 63

‘The Mockingbird’, 118

Montfort, Michael, 109

n

Neruda, Pablo, 64

Notes of a Dirty Old Man, 65, 66–69, 83

o

‘An Old Drunk Who Ran out of Luck’, 67

Open City, 65, 67, 68

p

Penn, Sean, 132

Pivano, Fernanda, 92, 99, 121–123

Pivot, Bernard, 110–111

Portfolio, 41

Post Office, 74–75, 79, 81, 83, 97, 113

‘the proud thin dying’, 115

Pulp, 138–144

r

‘A Rambling Essay on Poetics and the Bleeding Life’, 19

Rourke, Mickey, 129

Run with the Hunted, 137

s

Saroyan, William, 15, 113

Schroeder, Barbet, 42, 126

Sears Roebuck, 23–25

Shakespeare Never Did This, 112

Smith, Frances, 70–71

Son of Satan 12

South of No North, 88–89

Stanton, Harry Dean, 132

Story magazine, 39

t

Tales of Ordinary Madness (film), 88

‘Twenty Tanks from Kasseldown’, 41

‘The Twins’, 55

u

‘Uruguay or Hell’, 46–47

w

‘Waiting’, 10

War All the Time: Poems 1981–4, 125

Weissner, Carl, 109

What I Like Best Is Scratching My Pits, 92–93, 99, 121, 122–123

Williams, Liza, 83

Wolfe, Thomas, 67

Women, 112–115, 120, 132

World War I, 3–4

World War II, 30, 38