Screams from the Balcony: Selected Letters, 1960-1970

From post office night shifts to small-press fame, Bukowski’s letters lay bare a decade of survival on beer and a battered typewriter.

Screams from the Balcony is a collection of letters chronicling Charles Bukowski's life as he tries to get published and work at a postal office, all while drinking and gambling.

Written from cramped apartments on Mariposa Avenue and De Longpre, the letters record his persistent work on a manual typewriter despite neighbor complaints. Bukowski types these disp...