Quote of the Day

"I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.”

- Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

In 1986 Time called Bukowski a "laureate of American lowlife". Regarding Bukowski's enduring popular appeal, Adam Kirsch of The New Yorker wrote, "the secret of Bukowski's appeal ... [is that] he combines the confessional poet's promise of intimacy with the larger-than-life aplomb of a pulp-fiction hero."