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In On Love, we see Charles Bukowski reckoning with the complications of love and desire. Alternating between the tough and the tender, the romantic and the gritty, Bukowski exposes the myriad faces of love in the poems collected here – its selfishness and its narcissism, its randomness, its mystery and its misery, and, ultimately, its […]

A collection of previously unpublished letters from America’s cult icon on the art of writing. Charles Bukowski was one of our most iconoclastic, raw and riveting writers, one whose stories, poems and novels have left an enduring mark on our culture. On Writing collects Bukowski’s reflections and ruminations on the craft he dedicated his life […]

In The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way, Charles Bukowski considers the art of writing, and the art of living as writer. Bringing together a variety of previously uncollected stories, columns, reviews, introductions, and interviews, this book finds him approaching the dynamics of his chosen profession with cynical aplomb, deflating pretentions and tearing down […]

‘A cat is only ITSELF,’ Bukowski wrote. ‘Representative of the strong forces of life that won’t let go’ A raw and tenderly funny look at the relationship between cats and humans from one of the world’s most treasured and transgressive writers. ‘The cat is the beautiful devil’ For Charles Bukowski there was something majestic and […]