The Most Beautiful Woman in Town (1983)

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 short prose style. In keeping with his other works, themes include: Los Angeles bar culture; alcoholism; gambling; sex and violence. However, many of the stories contain elements of fantasy and surrealism. The book was initially printed as Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness. The stories originally appeared in Open City, Nola Express, Knight, Adam, Adam Reader, Pix, The Berkeley Barb and Evergreen Review.

Contents

Kid Stardust on the Porterhouse

Life in a Texas Whorehouse

Six Inches

The Fuck Machine

The Gut-Wringing Machine

3 Women

3 Chickens

Ten Jack-Offs

Twelve Flying Monkeys Who Won't Copulate Properly

25 Bums in Rags

Non-Horseshit Horse Advice

Another Horse Story

The Birth, Life and Death of an Underground Newspaper

Life and Death in the Charity Ward

The Day We Talked About James Thurber

All the Great Writers

The Copulating Mermaid of Venice, Calif

Trouble with a Battery

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Politics is like Trying to Screw a Cat in the Ass

My Big-Assed Mother

A Lovely Love Affair

All the Pussy We Want

The Beginner

The Fiend

The Murder of Ramon Vasquez

A Drinking Partner

The White Beard

A White Pussy

Trivia

In the film The Rules of Attraction the book can be seen in the drawer of Sean Bateman's room.