Tales of Ordinary Madness (1983)

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. (The other volume is entitled The Most Beautiful Woman in Town). Both volumes were first published in 1983 and remain in print.

Contents

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