The Real Reason to Love Bukowski

Lessons in writing with heart from the ‘laureate of American lowlife’

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I fell in love with Bukowski’s writing as a teenager. I burned through his novels, inspired by the unfiltered rawness of his prose, his ability to communicate so much with such little fluff. Depicting his experiences on skid row and his suburban American childhood, Bukowski’s novels didn’t…