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A down-and-out poet in Los Angeles navigates a series of women, bars, and hangovers in Bukowski's autobiographical novel about surviving desire.
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Hot Water Music
Short stories of drunks, failed writers, gamblers and the women who put up with them, set in the bars, racetracks and cheap apartments of Bukowski's Los Angeles.
Sex and Rage
Jacaranda Leven, a surfer and party girl who drifts through Los Angeles at the end of the 1970s, starts writing seriously and moves to New York, and has to decide what she will give up to keep going.
Perfume & Pain
Astrid Dahl, a lesbian novelist cancelled after a West Hollywood bookstore event, retreats to her Sapphic Scribes writing group, tries to give up pills and drink, and falls for nearly every woman in her orbit while her agent waits for the next book.
Junky
Burroughs's first book, a flat, exact account of a heroin user's life in 1940s New York, New Orleans and Mexico City, told by a man who has learned everything about the drug except how to stop.
The Rum Diary
In 1958, Paul Kemp, a young freelance journalist, takes a job at a failing English-language newspaper in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and drinks, brawls and drifts towards trouble, in Thompson's early autobiographical novel.
Milk Fed
Rachel, a twenty-four-year-old talent-agency assistant in Los Angeles who controls her life through strict rules about food, falls for the zaftig Orthodox Jewish woman who works at her frozen yogurt shop.
The Glass Canoe
Life inside the Southern Cross, a working-class pub in Sydney, told in short episodes by Meat Man, one of its regulars.
The Shards
A teenager in 1980s L.A. discovers that a serial killer may be operating in his wealthy community, and the memoir-novel hybrid blurs truth and fiction like everything Ellis writes.
Less Than Zero
A college student returns to 1980s Los Angeles and drifts through a world of cocaine, parties, and moral emptiness.
The First Bad Man
Cheryl Glickman, a fussy, solitary employee of a women's self-defence nonprofit in Los Angeles, agrees to let her bosses' sullen twenty-year-old daughter move in with her, and her ordered life comes apart.
Eve's Hollywood
Babitz's first book, a collection of short pieces on growing up in Hollywood, from Hollywood High to the rock clubs of the Sunset Strip, by someone who thinks Los Angeles is the best place on earth.
Exalted
In Los Angeles, Emily runs an astrology meme account that charges people to read their charts, and Dawn is one of her most devoted followers, as both women's lives, relationships and finances near collapse.