Despite having published over fifty books in his lifetime, many important stories and articles have remained dispersed and unedited. This volume is an anthology of these scattered works. Beginning with the first stories Bukowski published in magazines towards the end of the 1940s, the book offers the reader a counter-cultural journey through the literary battles of the 1950s, the psychedelic agitation of the 1960s, the narcissistic pleasures of the 1970s and the Reaganist dystopia of the 1980s. Furthermore, it contains accounts of his infamous public readings, reviews of his own work, and hilarious entries of his column in the press, as well as other recently discovered jewels.