Linda King is an artist, sculptor and poet. After she met poet/novelist Charles Bukowski in the early '70s, she offered to create a bust of his head. She was intimidated by his presence, but as they ...

he too knows it's bullshit but that somehow it all helps. Bukowski also happened to be one of our more raging misogynists of poetry*—he once said, "If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women ...

If you're a writer, an English major, or an avid reader, you've probably read Charles Bukowski's On Writing by now. It's a slim book filled with insights, advice, and the brutal truth about the art of ...

Charles Bukowski was called many things: “poet laureate of L.A. lowlife,” “the enfant terrible of the Meat School poets,” “the prophet of the underemployed” and “a flamboyant provincial.” Those ...

Scott Simon speaks with David Sandberg, owner of Porter Square Books in Cambridge, Mass., about all the Hemingway, Kerouac and Bukowski books that have kept getting stolen over the years. Who's ...

When Charles Bukowski died in San Pedro 20 years ago, the obituaries in the next day’s papers typically began with some iteration of Time magazine’s stock description of the writer as the “laureate of ...