Knight May 1971 -- First Appearance of Short Story by Charles Bukowski: Twelve Flying Monkeys Who Won’t Copulate Properly (1971)

The May 1971 issue of Knight (Vol. 8, No. 11) features the first appearance of the Charles Bukowski short story, Twelve Flying Monkeys Who Won’t Copulate Properly.

This short story would be collected in Erections, Ejaculations and General Tales of Ordinary Madness (1972)

The magazine is solid in Near Fine-minus condition with some scratches to the cover, some light foxing to the interior pages, and overall light general wear.

Bukowski would appear in four issues of Knight between 1970-1972. Knight was published by Holloway House out Los Angeles. Founded in 1959, Holloway also published Adam magazine as well as biographies about Jayne Mansfield and Ernest Hemingway. After the Watts riots in 1965, the company began to focus on black writers aimed at a black working-class market, a niche filled by no other publisher.  Their authors included Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Joseph Nazel, Leo Guild, Roosevelt Mallory, Odie Hawkins and Donald Goines.

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