''Tales of Ordinary Madness'' is one of two collections of short stories by Charles Bukowski that City Lights Publishers culled from its 1972 paperback volume ''

Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness ''Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness'' was a paperback collection of short stories by Charles Bukowski, first published by City Lights Publishers in 1972. It was the first collection of Bukowski's stories ...

''. (The other volume is entitled ''

The Most Beautiful Woman in Town ''The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories'' is a collection of anecdotal short stories by American author Charles Bukowski. The stories are written in both the first and third-person, in Bukowski's trademark semi-autobiographical shor ...

''). Both volumes were first published in 1983 and remain in print.

*A .45 To Pay The Rent *Doing Time With Public Enemy No. 1 *Scenes From The Big Time *Nut Ward Just East Of Hollywood *Would You Suggest Writing As A Career? *The Great Zen Wedding *Reunion *Cunt And Kant And A Happy Home *Goodbye Watson *Great Poets Die In Steaming Pots Of Shit *My Stay In The Poet's Cottage *The Stupid Christs *Too Sensitive *Rape! Rape! *An Evil Town *Love It Or Leave It *A Dollar And Twenty Cents *No Stockings *A Quiet Conversation Piece *Beer And Poets And Talk *I Shot A Man In Reno *A Rain Of Women *Night Streets Of Madness *Purple As An Iris *Eyes Like The Sky *One For Walter Lowenfels *Notes Of A Potential Suicide *Notes On The Pest *A Bad Trip *Animal Crackers In My Soup *A Popular Man *Flower Horse *The Big Pot Game *The Blanket

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Quotes from ''Tales of Ordinary Madness''

{{Charles Bukowski 1983 short story collections Short story collections by Charles Bukowski City Lights Publishers books

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