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, his fans expected to miss him. But they haven’t had the chance. A steady stream of Bukowski volumes has come out since he passed in 1994. It’s not like he didn’t leave ...

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 ...

John Martin, an adventurous independent publisher who brought out the raucous work of poet Charles Bukowski, as well as the writing of other offbeat literary rebels like Paul Bowles, John Fante and ...

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 ...