Charles Bukowski's LA tour & book release celebration November 12, 2011

City Lights Books & Esotouric celebrate new Charles Bukowski anthology with an L.A. bus tour

WHAT: A special edition of Esotouric's "Haunts of A Dirty Old Man: Charles Bukowski's L.A." bus tour offered in association with City Lights Books, to celebrate their publication of "More Notes of a Dirty Old Man" by Charles Bukowski (David Calonne, editor).
WHEN: Saturday, November 12, 12pm-4pm, departs from Philippe The Original, 1001 N Alameda, Downtown LA
COST: $58/person, includes coffee and donuts served at Bukowski's favorite Pink Elephant Liquor Store.
GIVEAWAYS: Five lucky passengers will win a free copy of "More Notes of a Dirty Old Man" on tour day.
MORE INFO: visit http://www.esotouric.com/buk or call 323-223-2767

LOS ANGELES- On November 12, Esotouric rolls out a very special edition of its popular and occasional Charles Bukowski bus tour, HAUNTS OF A DIRTY OLD MAN. This tour is offered in association with the author's publisher City Lights Books, and celebrates the publication of "More Notes of a Dirty Old Man" (David Calonne, editor). The sequel to his most famous book, "More Notes of a Dirty Old Man" features rare Bukowski columns unseen in decades. After toiling in obscurity for years, Charles Bukowski found fame in 1967 with his autobiographical newspaper column, "Notes of a Dirty Old Man," and a book of that name in 1969. He continued writing this column, from its inception in "Open City" to its conclusion in "High Times," through the mid-1980s. "More Notes of a Dirty Old Man" gathers many uncollected gems from the column's 20-year run. And five lucky Esotouric tour passengers will win a free copy on tour day.

Esotouric's Charles Bukowski tour departs from Philippe The Original, the legendary downtown sandwich shop where postal worker Bukowski often ate while employed across the street at the brutal Terminal Annex sorting facility.
The tour is hosted by Richard Schave, one of the forces behind the recent successful campaign to have Bukowski's one-time bungalow on De Longpre Avenue in East Hollywood declared an historic-cultural monument.

HAUNTS OF A DIRTY OLD MAN spans Bukowski's personal city, from the Skid Row bars where he tuned his young writer's ear to the voices of old rummies to the once-genteel Crown Hill apartments where he fought with his first love Jane, favorite bars and liquor stores, "Barfly" locations to the downtown library, where he discovered his "God," novelist John Fante (recently honored with a Square in his name outside that library, a designation that was initially proposed to City Council by tour host Richard Schave).

German born, Charles Bukowski spent most of his life in L.A., working for the US Postal Service, as "Notes of a Dirty Old Man" columnist for the underground press and writing the screenplay for the autobiographical "Barfly." The city and its characters are everywhere in the work, so this tour celebrates the artist within his city with visits to places that were important to him and to his work. The tour includes a stop at Pink Elephant Liquor in East Hollywood for complementary coffee and donuts, though many riders also pick up a little something stronger for the road.

Esotouric has made its name with true crime bus tours (Black Dahlia, Pasadena Confidential) and explorations of literary LA (Raymond Chandler, John Fante, James M. Cain). Here they'll turn their creative attentions to Bukowski, the prolific poet, novelist and screenwriter whose rough-hewn tales of boozing, wild women and rotten jobs never obscure the deep vein of sweetness and hope that runs through all his work.

Upcoming Esotouric bus tour and special event schedule
Sat Oct 15 - Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles
Thur Oct 20 - Free "Of Scrap & Steel" film screening (info at lavatransforms.org)
Sat Oct 22 - Free virtual walking tours and "L.A. Noire" critique at Archives Bazaar (info at lavatransforms.org)
Sun Oct 23 - Blood & Dumplings crime bus tour
Sun Oct 30 - LAVA's free Sunday Salon (info at lavatransforms.org)
Sat Nov 5 - Weird West Adams crime bus tour
Sat Nov 12 - Charles Bukowski's Los Angeles
Sun Nov 27 - LAVA's free Sunday Salon (info at lavatransforms.org)
Sat Dec 3 – Pasadena Confidential with Crimebo the Clown (weekend pass available)
Sun Dec 4 - Eastside Babylon crime bus tour (weekend pass available)
Sat Dec 10 - Hotel Horrors & Main Street Vice crime bus tour
Sun Dec 25 - LAVA's free Sunday Salon (info at lavatransforms.org)
Sat Jan 7 - The Real Black Dahlia crime bus tour
Sat Jan 21 - Charles Bukowski's Los Angeles
Sat Jan 28 - The Birth of Noir: James M. Cain's Southern California Nightmare
Sun Jan 29 - LAVA's free Sunday Salon (info at lavatransforms.org)
Sat Feb 4 - Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles: Route 66 (weekend pass available)
Sun Feb 5 - Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles: South Los Angeles (weekend pass available)

For more info on Esotouric, visit http://www.esotouric.com

Esotouric's Richard Schave and Kim Cooper are proud members of LAVA - The Los Angeles Visionaries Association. http://www.lavatransforms.org

Official Website: http://www.esotouric.com/buk