Knight April 1970 -- First Appearance Short Story by Charles Bukowski: The Great Zen Wedding (1970,) Plus Mick Jagger Photos

The April 1970 issue of Knight (Vol. 9, No. 12) features the Charles Bukowski short story, The Great Zen Wedding.

(Fling - Vol. 14 - No. 4) features the Charles Bukowski short story, The Great Zen Wedding.

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

There’s also a feature on Mick Jagger with some great period photographs.

Magazine is in Very Good ++ condition with some creases and rubbing to the spine, some edge wear, and a bump on the lower-right front cover.

Illustrations for this story were done by William Stephens Shields, Jr., who graduated from the Chicago Academy of Fine Art as an Illustration major. His illustrations were coveted by such clients as Bantam Books, Time Life, MacMillan Publishing Co., and were awarded numerous gold medals by the Societies of Illustrators in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, and the Houston Artists Guild. After years of sculpting, making assemblages, painting nudes and landscapes, he settled on the exploration of large abstract oil paintings. His paintings have been exhibited in galleries in San Francisco, Connecticut and New York.

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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