Knight September 1970 -- First Appearance Short Story by Charles Bukowski: Nut Ward Just East of Hollywood (1970)

The September 1970 issue of Knight (Vol. 8, No. 5) features the first appearance of the Charles Bukowski short story, Nut Ward Just East of Hollywood.

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 wear to the covers and light foxing to the interior pages.

Illustrations for this story were done by Ed Badajos, known primarily for his political cartoons, visual commentaries, and covers. He was the editorial cartoonist for the L.A. Free Press and his work appeared in The Staff and The Berkeley Barb. Badajos gained further exposure through syndication in the underground press of the '60s and '70s. His work is published in books like 'Dick! The Nixon Era' and 'Filipino Food'.

Bukowski would appear in four issues of Knight between 1970-1972. Knight was published by Holloway House out of 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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