CHARLES BUKOWSKI

He's my man.
I've never read any other authors who I've connected with so well.
Everything is perfect.

But ... I've read him all. All of him.
I don't know where to go next.

I've heard Fante and Celine are obvious next steps.
Who else?

Bukowski is amazing. It isn't particularly well written, at least not in the classic sense, but the subject material is so real. There is a reality there that isn't really in a lot of other writings. Underneath the asshole narrator, you find a human ,like the soft part of a snail exposed after you crack the shell.

I'm glad to see people appreciate him.