![]() ![]() ![]() Seated in his messy living room, he spoke the most truthfully when addressing criticism on his work. “Get them away from a typewriter, they’re pricks. “If they get in front of a typewriter, they’re good people,” Bukowski says. Here in this grainy interview, which was shot entirely on U-matic videotapes, years before VHS came into the mainstream, he says that used car salesmen and plumbers are better than writers. He famously kept away from the Beat Generation writers like Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, and claimed that four authors are only needed to understand good writing John Fante, DH Lawrence, Louis-Ferdinand Céline and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Though Bukowski was a popular writer, he hated other living writers. (Photo by Ulf Andersen/Getty Images) Getty Images ![]() PARIS - SEPTEMBER 21: American writer and poet Charles Bukowski appears on talk show "Apostrophes". ![]()
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