Journal of Alta California

Bukowski by Bus

I think it was my second day as a Christmas temp that this big woman came out and walked around with me as I delivered letters. What I mean by big was that her ass was big and her tits were big and that she was big in all the right places. She seemed a bit crazy but I kept looking at her body and I didn’t care.”

So writes Charles Bukowski in the opening chapter of his 1971 debut novel, . Today, it is unimaginable to think of

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