This week I'm reading Bukowski, not so much by choice but by chance because I came across a whole stack of his books at the local Vinnies shop. He was America's most infamous poet, and "Time" called him the "laureate of American lowlife".
Much of his work is auto-biographical as are the three movies based on his writing: "Barfly", "Tales of Ordinary Madness", and "Factotum".
Now it's back to my books. As he wrote, "Without literature, life is hell."