Bukowski Never Did This: A Year in the Life of an Underground Writer & His Family

Charles Bukowski is the ultimate underground writer success story. Publisher John Martin gave him an allowance to quit his job at the post office and write a novel, Post Office, which became a huge success in Europe. Bukowski toured Europe with a personal paparazzo to document his journey, and wrote a book called Shakespeare Never Did This. He was still largely unknown in the United States, where he is better known for the movie he wrote about himself, Barfly, than for his many novels and books of poetry. One of the things Bukowski wrote about was going ten rounds with Hemingway. In Bukowski Never Did This, underground legend Jack Saunders writes about going ten rounds with Bukowski. Writing over 250 books while working full-time jobs, taking on the literary establishment, and raising a family aren’t easy things to do. Jack Saunders has done them. Bukowski Never Did This is a partial record of his journey, sans paparazzo.