Hot Water Music is a collection of short stories by Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

Henry Charles Bukowski was an American poet, novelist and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles...

, published in 1983 by Black Sparrow Press. The collection deals largely with: drinking, women, gambling, and writing. It is an important collection that establishes Bukowski's minimalist style and his thematic oeuvre.

Contents

• Less Delicate than the Locust
• Scream When You Burn
• A Couple of Gigolos
• The Great Poet
• You Kissed Lily
• Hot Lady
• It's a Dirty World
• 900 Pounds
• Decline and Fall
• Have You Read Pirandello?
• Strokes to Nowhere
• Some Mother
• Scum Grief
• Not Quite Bernadette
• Some Hangover
• A Working Day
• The Man Who Loved Elevators
• Head Job
• Turkeyneck Morning
• In and Out and Over
• I love you Albert
• White Dog Hunch
• Long Distance Drunk
• How To Get Published
• Spider
• The Death of the Father I
• The Death of the Father II
• Harry Ann Landers
• Beer at the Corner Bar
• The Upward Bird
• Cold Night
• A Favor for Don
• Praying Mantis
• Broken Merchandise
• Home Run
• Fooling Marie

Other references

The band Hot Water Music

Hot Water Music

Hot Water Music is a punk rock band from Gainesville, Florida. The members of the band are Chuck Ragan, Chris Wollard, Jason Black, and George Rebelo. HWM first formed in 1993...

took their name from this book.