Rodger Jacobs, the exiled-in-Vegas Angeleno behind Carver's Dog and Hemingway's Shotgun has just come out with a new book.
Titled Mr. Bukowski's Wild Ride, it's a collection of short, short stories with a narrator named Bukowski. If you're curious as to the tone, I believe Jacobs has some source material here on his blog. I've been a big fan of his writing since stumbling across Carver's Dog shortly after moving to L.A.
Here is the publisher's description of the new book:
Veer onto the human highway and into the gritty underbelly of Los Angeles, circa 1965-89. Your tour guide is Mr. Bukowski, the hard-drinking, chain-smoking Poet Laureate of the Underground, and his friends are as diverse as a sack full of stolen bottles from a midnight liquor store raid: disgruntled cartoon characters assuming human form, a disillusioned, suicidal movie star, a demented producer of classic children's movies, and even the ghost of Boris Karloff. Fasten your seat belts. It's going to be a wild ride.
The book won't be up on Amazon or B&N for another month, but it's available for online purchase here. The bookstore distribution is still being worked out, but it's available at City Lights in SFO, if any readers up North are interested in what's sure to be a hilarious and edifying read.
