In 1969, publisher John Martin offered to pay Charles Bukowski $100 each and every month for the rest of his life, on one condition: that he quit his job at the post office and become a full-time writer. The 49-year-old Bukowski did exactly that, and just weeks after leaving work finished writing his first book, Post Office, a semiautobiographical story in which Bukowski’s fictional alter ego, Henry Chinaski, muddles through life as an employee of the US Postal Service. It was published by Martin’s Black Sparrow Press in 1971. 15 years later, Bukowski wrote a letter to Martin and spoke of his joy at having escaped full-time employment.
(🫡 Had to cut the text of the letter Bukowski sent to Martin. Just ran out of space here, for some reason.)
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