Bukowski’s Perseverance

Steve B Howard
Nov 6 · 5 min read

The hard truth about a writer’s life and how to keep at it regardless.

Photo by Gabriel Alenius on Unsplash

It is easy to write old Charles (Hank Chinanski) Bukowski off as a mean drunk and amateur poet that got really lucky. He was a bar brawler, a pretty horrible guy to most of the women in his life, and the type of drunk that would drink until he passed out most of the time. He started drinking at 16 and didn’t stop until he died at 73. For most of his…

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A spewer of sometimes interesting sounding gibberish, a semi-pro comedian, and a teacher in Japan. https://amzn.to/2RDCT0Y (stevenbhow@gmail.com)

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