{"id":11055,"date":"2010-12-16T12:34:12","date_gmt":"2010-12-16T12:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/12\/16\/on-bukowski\/"},"modified":"2010-12-16T12:34:12","modified_gmt":"2010-12-16T12:34:12","slug":"on-bukowski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/12\/16\/on-bukowski\/","title":{"rendered":"On Bukowski"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Some write because they like the idea of being a writer.&#0160; It&#39;s romantic or &#39;cool&#39; or something.&#0160; Others write to say something that they need to express.&#0160; Most combine these motivations.&#0160; The better the writer, the stronger the need to express something that not just needs expression for the&#0160;psychic health of the writer, but that is worthy of expression.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Charles Bukowski wrote from genuine need.&#0160; (See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.org\/viewmedia.php\/prmMID\/16549\" target=\"_self\">so you want to be a writer?<\/a>) It was his therapy. He could not have believed in the early days of his scribbling&#0160; that he would ever be able to make a living from it.&#0160; But from what I have read of him so far, what he wrote is not worth reading except in the way that his writing was worth doing for him.&#0160; What do I mean?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">His writing was self-therapeutic; our reading is motivated by something like the pathologist&#39;s interest.&#0160; We read him to learn about diseases of the mind and spirit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Am I being fair?&#0160; Fair enough for a blog post.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some write because they like the idea of being a writer.&#0160; It&#39;s romantic or &#39;cool&#39; or something.&#0160; Others write to say something that they need to express.&#0160; Most combine these motivations.&#0160; The better the writer, the stronger the need to express something that not just needs expression for the&#0160;psychic health of the writer, but that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/12\/16\/on-bukowski\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On Bukowski&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[201,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bukowski","category-literary-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}