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Screams from the Balcony: Selected Letters, 1960-1970

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Ten years of unfiltered letters reveal Charles Bukowski battling the night shift, small presses, and the racetrack to become a writer.

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.

These letters follow his routine across a decade of small-press battles, typed out between graveyard shifts and nursing hangovers. Bukowski details his exchanges with independent edit...