The Holy Grail: Charles Bukowski & the Second Coming Revolution

"THE HOLY GRAIL comes closer than any book yet published in showing how and why the small-press revolution broke the ironclad hold of stodgy traditional publishers back in the early 1960s, enabling a whole new generation of radical and countercultural writers to get their work before the public and, as in the case of Bukowski and others, to become outlaw artist celebrities on a par with rock stars. Winans reminds us that even publishers we now think of as mainstream, such as City Lights (which first published Allen Ginsberg) and Black Sparrow, began as small presses....THE HOLY GRAIL also gives one of the most honest and compelling portraits of Bukowski yet in print, destroying almost every myth about him still current."A. D. Winans is the author of 'The Holy Grail: Charles Bukowski & the Second Coming Revolution' with ISBN 9780916685959 and ISBN 0916685950.