WHAT CHARLES BUKOWSKI CAN TEACH YOU ABOUT BEING A WRITER

CHEATERS INC. & DUMB LUCK LTD. Part 43 From The Chapter – The Reality End of the Pen

Bukowski At Bellevue … is a fuzzy, black-and-white video of Buk doing a very early reading, (supposedly only his fourth) at Bellevue Community College in Washington state, in 1970.

He was 50 years old then just beginning to break out after a rough, long lifetime of suffering: bad women, bad nights, alcoholism, suicidal impulses, a genuine nightmare of a life.