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Just finished this after reading Factotum.

More books like this, PLEASE! (not necessarily Bukowski)

>> No.2048383

Luis Ferdinand Celine
Henry Miller

>> No.2048397
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Novels written by poets?

>> No.2048467

>>2048397
More like first-person narratives about debauchery, negligance, and wholesome "I just don't give a fuck"-ness, but I suppose those are alright as well.

>> No.2048472

>>2048383
This guy knows what's up.

>> No.2048476

>>2048467
Anything by Tao Lin. Not even trolling

>> No.2048577

>>2048476
Never heard of him. I'll check him out.

>> No.2048600

Burroughs' Junky. It's nothing like Gravity's Rainbow; instead, it's just more a series of stories about living the heroin life. It's the book that Trainspotting (the movie) was trying to be.

>> No.2049326

The Ginger Man, J.P. Donleavy

>> No.2049329

>>2048269
Ask the Dust by John Fante. He's the guy who inspired Bukowski.

>> No.2049372

Read the short stories "Aurora" and "Edison, New Jersey" by Junot Diaz, OP. It is exactly what you're looking for.

they are collected in the 1996 book Drown, along with other god-tier stories that are not as much like what you asked for, but you will surely enjoy.

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>first-person narratives about debauchery, negligance, and wholesome "I just don't give a fuck"-ness

it ain't fiction, but pic fits the bill spectacularly