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On Writing - by Charles Bukowski (Paperback)

On Writing - by  Charles Bukowski (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Charles Bukowski's stories, poems, and novels have left an enduring mark on our culture. In this collection of correspondence--letters to publishers, editors, friends, and fellow writers--the writer shares his insights on the art of creation.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Sharp and moving reflections and ruminations on the artistry and craft of writing from one of our most iconoclastic, riveting, and celebrated masters.</p><p>Charles Bukowski's stories, poems, and novels have left an enduring mark on our culture. In this collection of correspondence--letters to publishers, editors, friends, and fellow writers--the writer shares his insights on the art of creation.</p><p><em>On Writing</em> reveals an artist brutally frank about the drudgery of work and canny and uncompromising about the absurdities of life--and of art. It illuminates the hard-edged, complex humanity of a true American legend and counterculture icon--the "laureate of American lowlife" (<em>Time</em>)--who stoically recorded society's downtrodden and depraved. It exposes an artist grounded in the visceral, whose work reverberates with his central ideal: "Don't try."</p><p>Piercing, poignant, and often hilarious, <em>On Writing</em> is filled not only with memorable lines but also with Bukowski's trademark toughness, leavened with moments of grace, pathos, and intimacy.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>Charles Bukowki's stories, poems, and novels have left an enduring mark on our culture. In this collection of previously unpublished material--letters to publishers, editors, friends, and fellow writers--Bukowski shares his insights on the art of creation. </p><p><em>On Writing</em> reveals an artist brutally frank about the drudgery of work, and canny and uncompromising about the absurdities of life--and of art. It illuminates the hard-edged, complex humanity of a true American legend and countercultural icon--the "laureate of American lowlife" (<em>Time</em>)--who stoically recorded society's downtrodden and depraved. It exposes an artist grounded in the visceral, whose work reverberates with his central ideal: "Don't try." </p>Piercing, poignant, and often hilarious, <em>On Writing</em> is filled not only with memorable lines but also with Bukowski's trademark toughness, levened with moments of grace, pathos, and intimacy.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"By turns, the poet's letters are humorous, boastful, self-deprecating, and angry at the world, but they are always entertaining. VERDICT: Bukowski fans will welcome this new collection tied to the celebration of what would have been his 95th birthday."--<em>Library Journal</em><br><br>"The letters are a wild ride informed in equal parts by ego, alcoholism, misanthropy, erudition, and the genius, as Bukowski puts it, of one 'touched by the grace of the word."--<em>Publishers Weekly</em><br><br>Always passionate, frequently funny, occasionally incoherent excerpts from a significant 20th-century American writer.--<em>Kirkus Reviews</em><br>

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