Bukowski was born in 1920. Lived to be 73 years old.
So, the article is true, he used a word processor for the last few years of his life. Those poems, with a few exceptions, were not the good ones.
It's cool though that he adapted to computers. Some more modern authors still won't touch them.
He was popular among me, because when I worked in a factory doing manual labor in the 90's, his poems described the life I was living.
It was neither fringe, nor "cool", nor non-comformist, nor part of a subculture.
He was a good writer who wrote about what I was going through.
Burroughs was just fucking crazy. I liked his writing too. Not the cut-up stuff.
Exterminator!
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pentaphobe•1h ago
and all those trips to Interzone don't pay for 'emselves!
pentaphobe•58m ago
> His parents, upon his graduation, had decided to give him a monthly allowance of $200 out of their earnings from Cobblestone Gardens, a substantial sum in those days.
> It was enough to keep him going, and indeed it guaranteed his survival for the next twenty-five years, arriving with welcome regularity. The allowance was a ticket to freedom; it allowed him to live where he wanted to and to forgo employment. [1^]
And $200 in 1937 gets you a fair bit of freedom (roughly $4500 in today's money) - sure, it's not private jet money but notable. And would have gone pretty far in Mexico and Tangier.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_S._Burroughs
[2]: https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1937?amount=200
zabzonk•31m ago