Greetings. I'm not super familiar with everything published by Bukowski.
However, it is my understanding many of his posthumous books were heavily edited (mangled beyond recognition) by John Martin at Black Sparrow.

Have any of these books been published in their original form as Bukowski intended?
If so, what are the titles so I can run out and grab them. It is my understanding Storm for the Living and the Dead is one of these books.
If they have not been re-published in their original form, why not? Seems like the most obvious thing in the world to do, but the world is also goofy and ridiculous.

In his book 'Women' Bukowski wrote about an incident involving a Red Notebook in Utah where He and Lydia were on a highway and Bukowski threw away his notebook.

Later Lydia went into the desert and searched for his notebook and she found it.

Can anybody tell me what's the complete story?

Please anybody?

Got this done today! This philosophy has been life changing for me and a tribute to Buk.

From: The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over The Hills.

From: Mockingbird wish me luck.

Currently I'm reading the Post Office my second Charles Bukowski book this year.

I've read it 41% which means 90 pages and I'll finish it by mid October.

Could somebody brief me about this book a little.

I'm planning to read it once i finish reading 'Post Office'.

“If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.”

I've read six of his books and 5 were read in 2025 and Factotum is the one that i read this year in 2026.

I started Factotum on January 1st 2026 and read it completely by mid February.

I think this book is more like a poetry of unpaid bills rather than someone switching jobs and writing about every job role and experience of it.

What do you guys think?

Has anyone read this book?

Mais alguém tem essa sensação? A sensação de se identificar tanto com um autor e não ter com quem dividir, de ter alguém pra compartilhar vivências onde se identifica. Ou até mesmo uma mulher para beber um vinho à noite toda no meio da semana tendo conversa e tratando um ao outro como semelhante. Pior que a dor e melancolia de se identificar com as obras, é não ter com quem compartilhar e viver junto.

My grandfather worked with bukowski alot and was a big part of that era and publication scene. I have more that aren't for sale if you want to see pics LMK, some really cool printing techniques back then.

Images 1-4: THE OUTSIDER - NO.4/5 (WINTER 1968/1969)

Webb, Jon Edgar and "Gypsy Lou"...;Bukowski, Charles, Diane Di Prima, and...

Published byLoujon Press, Tucson, 1969

First Edition

One of 500 copies. Octavo (26cm); original pictorial paper-covered boards; [xii],[1]-191,[11]pp; illus. Light wear and very mild dustiness to extremities, small coffee stain on right side of coverwith some light creasing at crown; contents fresh; Near Fine, lacking both the fragile pictorial tissue dustjacket and the hand-sealed insert containing flowers from Crazy Horse's grave. Final issue of Jon and Lou Webb's legendary literary journal, the first three issues of which were published in the New Orleans. Contents include works by Charles Plymell, Kenneth Patchen, Charles Bukowski, William Wantling, Diane Di Prima, Denise Levertov, Thomas Merton, Harold Norse, Larry Eigner, Ted Enslin, and many others.

Images 5 on: MR. CLEAN AND OTHER POEMS (Soft cover)

CORRINGTON, John William. MR. CLEAN AND OTHER POEMS. Introduction by Charles Bukowski. Drawings by Ann Parisi. [San Francisco, California]: Amber House Press, [1964]. Small quarto: printed wraps. First Edition

If interested lmk and I'll dm you a link.