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William S. Burroughs @nothingtrueeverythingpermitted @charlesbukowski What is the premise for your next novel? Charles Bukowski @charlesbukowski @nothingtrueeverythingpermitted Drink. Have sex. Drink....
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I don’t know if I’m confused by this because I’m unfamiliar with Burroughs, or because even after using Twitter I don’t really understand how it works… I remember having to do ‘cut up’ poetry in one of...
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Hilarious, especially: OMG just got 2nd novel placed w @OlympiaPress! Also, it’s a touch sad, seeing that there are see-ree-us writers out there expressing themselves in exactly this way at the moment....
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Repeat. Always repeat. Women was pretty much a long series of RTs. I introduced my wife to Bukowski last week. She thought it was funny how much he vomited.
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Probably the former. I have been studying Burroughs most of every day for the past six months, and intermittently for several years. I sometimes think I’m going a little insane because regular thoughts...
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You know, the reason I actually wrote this was because I had been studying Burroughs’ correspondence in such depth. After a while I got pissed when I needed to study something and he’d not mentioned it...
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When I watched my friends play ‘Black Ops’ (I don’t play video games besides GTA, because I am terrible at all of them), they all got to meet James D. Irwin: History Dork. The whole thing is set around...
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I studied that same era pretty intensely back in uni, and I’m also not proud to admit that I was super happy to see McNamara (he’s also in one of the levels; you get to run around with him but can’t...
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“Women” is his least successful novel, I think; the only one I had difficulty getting through. After a while, when he hooks up with yet another woman, you’re like, “Okay, what’s the problem with this...
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I read Post Office first and it’s certainly a great introduction to Bukowski. Very accessible and easy to enjoy. Women is great for the first little while, but as you say, it becomes predictable and...
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The letter was pretty much done by the time email came along. In fact, email was thought, initially, to be the salvation of the letter. Now, as you say, people can’t even be bothered to email. I would...
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I think City Lights picked up a few copyrights after Black Sparrow Press went out of business, and in some cases changed the original names of collections, or combined them, etc. Anyway, I’m not sure...
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Notes of a Dirty Old Man… that’s the one. Great collection of stories, and a little less repetitive than Women, although stylistically similar, if I recall correctly. I’ve never read Hollywood for some...
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I think we forego detail because of the immediacy of e-mail, at least to some degree. Everyone’s online all the time, and you know if you write someone a one-liner then you’ll get a reply an hour...
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It’s about the making of “Barfly.” “Notes of a Dirty Old Man” was originally a collection of Bukowski’s columns for “Open City,” an underground paper that was later renamed the “Los Angeles Free...
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I’m too lazy to answer this at the length it deserves! There are moments when we can refer to others to fill in the gaps of what we mean to say, and other moments when we can’t. Who had used the term...
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I always take care over whatever I write, unless it’s a very quick text. The replies I write on comment boards, in e-mails, and most texts… I re-draft them as I go. I don’t know why, because I am about...
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It surely is an art form, but in that case I am definitely no artist. As I said, my e-mails are typically short, but even the long ones are poorly written. Usually they’re just stream-of-consciousness...
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