Seeing through the Sun Book

Every story in this collection wants to make you drink yourself silly, run away from home or quit your job. Bukowski has just one story. That of the outcast who is an alcoholic involved in some menial job struggling with his sexual frustrations and instinctive living.

There are takedowns of mediocre poets like Shakespere. There is great criticism of Norman Mailer - "God, he just writes on and on. There's no force, no humor. I don't understand it. Just a pushing out of the word, any word, anything ....."

And this great quote - "Doldrums of mechanical people in a mechanical act trying to tickle their cement souls back into life." That pretty much nails everything that is wrong with most books, music, movies and activism today.

(Goodreads deleted my old review. I wrote the above from memory.)