The Fountainhead, Tom Wolfe, The Alchemist, Salinger, and more.

Clam chowder in Moby Dick, a turducken except made with camel and antelope in I Served the King of England, Turkish delight in Narnia. And more!

Bukowski, that bawdy sod, boozed, brawled, and screwed his way in and out of literary infamy. A chronicler of low-lifedom, his concerns were carnal, sometimes exuberant, often defeated and depressed. “You boys can keep your virgins,” he wrote. “Give me hot old women in high heels with asses that forgot to get old.”

Plus Geoff Chaucer, Updike, Henry Miller, Ben Franklin, Michel Houllelbecq, and more!

Norman Mailer. Aimee Bender. James Salter. Lynda Barry. Kyle Minor. Virgil. Anne Carson. More!