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"Nirvana" was adapted to music by Tom Waits and available on his album Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards.
Novels by Charles Bukowski
- Post Office (1971)
- Factotum (1975)
- Women (1978)
- Ham On Rye (1982)
- Hollywood (1989)
- Pulp (1994)
Works by Charles Bukowski with their own pages include:
- Barfly (screenplay)
- Ham On Rye (novel)
Other works by Charles Bukowski contain examples of:
- all lowercase letters: Charles Bukowski uses only lowercase in his early works.
- The Alcoholic: Henry Chinaski.
- Author Avatar: Henry Chinaski.
- Brilliant, but Lazy: "My ambition is handicapped by my laziness" pretty much sums his characters up.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Henry Chinaski, Bukowski's literary alter ego.
- Department of Redundancy Department: Bukowski’s robust writing style creates numerous self-referential redundancies and repetitions, some of which are outrageously obvious."In the morning it was morning and I was still alive." (Post Office)
- Grey-and-Grey Morality: None of his works depict a truly good hero, instead they are full of characters who are all flawed and unlikeable to a varying degree.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Hollywood is full of these, ranging from the relatively subtle and well-disguised (Dennis Hopper becomes Mack Austin, David Lynch is Manz Loeb, Mickey Rourke gets rebranded as Jack Blesdoe) to the ludicrously blunt (Mack Derouac, Tab Jones, Francis Ford Lopolla).
