Adnan Sharif | Book Reviews | Bookstagramer on Instagram: "Charles Bukowski was the laureate of American lowlife, famously associated with "Dirty Realism." He wrote about the people society tried to ignore: alcoholics, gamblers, prostitutes, and the working poor. Having spent years working a soul-crushing job at the U.S. Post Office (which inspired his first novel, Post Office), Bukowski wrote with a total lack of pretension. He hated metaphors and flowery language, preferring a raw, direct styl