VITALE: For whatever reason, Bukowski's writing clicked. It just makes him a misogynist who is a misogynist because he is the product of his time. Baim says she knows Bukowski was writing in a different era.īAIM: But contextualizing it doesn't make him a misogynist who knows better. Her boyfriend has a tattoo of the cover art from one of Bukowski's poetry collections, so she decided to read the author's 1978 novel, "Women," and write an online essay about it. VITALE: Cassandra Baim is a 29-year-old writer living in Brooklyn.
He wrote his first novel when he was 49 called "Post Office." It featured his fictional alter ego, Henry Chinaski.ĬASSANDRA BAIM: Henry Chinaski mistreats and sexually assaults and belittles and insults women. VITALE: The factories, the horrors and the drunk tanks were a big part of Bukowski's success, which came relatively late. What am I doing with this leisure? Where did the factories go and the horrors and the drunk tanks? It's called "Do You Use A Notebook."ĬHARLES BUKOWSKI: I turn on my radio and light a cigarette. So in 1981, when a young reporter showed up at his home in San Pedro, Calif., the 60-year-old author read a poem about the stupid questions interviewers ask. TOM VITALE, BYLINE: Charles Bukowski was annoyed and amused by the world around him. I wanted to be a writer, so I did that.īukowski in the end was not rejected. In one poem, the writer described taking all the little rejection slips that he received when publishers turned down his work and taping them on the wall as a kind of bitter motivation. Years ago, a friend showed me poetry of Charles Bukowski.
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