Adam August 1970 -- Everybody's Got One: Chapter from Post Office by Charles Bukowski

"Everybody's Got One" is an unedited chapter from Post Office, published in the August 1970 issue of Adam Magazine. This appearance in Adam preceded the novel by five months.

The chapter provides some great insight into how Bukowski wrote the novel. A lot of Post Office scenes were later added in between these scenes in the finished novel.

In Post Office, this chapter was heavily edited. Some naughty words were taken out, unnecessary words added, and some nice Bukowski lines completely removed.

This short quote from a Bukowski letter to Carl Weissner from July 11, 1970, explains the situation Bukowski was in at the time:

"By the way, I have sold 3 or 4 chapters from the novel to the dirty mags, one of them out the other day; already paid for the others. That’s before I mailed the typescript to Martin, which is like sending one of your children to the fucking tombs. Anyhow, I typed the stories right out of the typescript and I didn’t hear any complaints about dangling participles…"

This copy is in Near Fine-minus with a stamp on the cover model's forehead

Knight Publishing Corp. launched Adam magazine in 1956 as an attempt to follow Playboy's success. The magazine had a long run, surviving until 1996. Between 1970- 1972, Bukowski appeared in six issues with six short stories.

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